Alcohol: Cradle To Grave

Alcohol: Cradle to Grave

From Booklist This disturbing book is based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper series on alcohol abuse and its social impact. Newhouse, a reporter for the Great Falls Tribune, focuses on the gritty Montana town where bars that open at 8 a.m and local unemployment account for high rates of alcohol and drug abuse among Native Americans. Newhouse was covering alcohol-related murders on a Montana Indian reservation when he came up with the idea for reporting on the social costs of alcohol abuse. This book is a diary of Newhouse's reporting, including interviews with alcoholics as they struggle day-to-day with their illness. His subjects reveal their darkest secrets and frightening recollections of alcoholism in their families. Newhouse visited Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, treatment programs, and bars; he also accompanied police on calls to alcohol-fueled disturbances. He includes statistics on the overt and hidden costs of alcoholism in hospital and program treatment, police enforcement, social services, and the proliferation of one of the most dangerous legal substances taken by Americans. Vanessa BushCopyright ? American Library Association. All rights reserved Winner of the 2002 Independent Publishers Book Award.Alcohol: Cradle to Grave contains the newspaper series that brought Montana journalist Eric Newhouse to the attention of Pulitzer Prize jurors. A thorough and revealing account of how alcohol courses through the daily life and traditions of Great Falls, Montana, Alcohol: Cradle to Grave chronicles the everyday impact of America's most popular drug of choice. Newhouse methodically tallies the societal costs of alcohol abuse in one community. His calculations are staggering, including millions of dollars annually for law enforcement, health care, foster care, domestic violence programs, welfare, special education, and corrections. About the Author Eric Newhouse has worked as a journalist since 1967. He was a reporter and correspondent for the Associated Press and was also bureau chief for the AP in Charleston, West Virginia. In 1988, he joined the Great Falls Tribune where he was news editor and editorial editor, before becoming a projects editor. He is also an instructor for the University of Great Falls, where he teaches English, mass communications, and writing courses. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin, a master's degree from the University of Maryland, and a second master's from Columbia University, where he was also appointed an international fellow. He lives in Montana.