The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, as Mr. Buckley begins by telling us, had issued a report "the burden of which is that the public attention given to narcotics is all very well and good, but that the principal drug addiction in the United States is alcohol." WFB: "Would [you] consider it unprofessional to raise your hand and say, 'For Heaven's sake, everybody stop drinking'?" JH: "No, I don't think it would be unprofessional of me to say so, but I think it would be unrealistic of me to say so, and I couldn't in good conscience say so." For Father Sweisgood (who had been personally affected by his father's and his own alcoholism, and who says, "If I could drink, I would drink"), "I've stopped looking at the many, many people who can use it well and I'm very concerned about the people who are dying from it.... You've got a much better chance of stopping him [a young man just starting to have a drinking problem] if you tell him the truth in a credible way, either before he crosses the line of loss of control or, once having crossed it, knowing, 'Look, this is a disease. There's something I can do about it before I wind up with this sclerotic liver and a wet brain.'"