Habits that Handicap: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Habits that Handicap, credited to Charles B. Towns, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Habits that Handicap, by Charles B. Towns. Habits that Handicap is one of three novels about alcoholism and drug addiction written by Charles B. Towns. Towns was an expert on alcoholism and drug addiction who helped draft drug control legislation in the United States during the early 20th century. He also founded the Towns Hospital in New York City, which aimed at drying out the well-to-do patient. (Summary by Guero and Wikipedia.)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Habits that Handicap
• Author credits: Charles B. Towns
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 6:42:14

Catalogue topics

• drugs
• alcohol
• addiction
• treatment
• non-fiction

Track guide

1. 00 - Prefaces and Introduction — 10:44
2. 01 - The Peril of the Drug Habit — 30:08
3. 02 - The Need of Adequate Specific Treatment for the Drug-Taker — 25:02
4. 03 - The Drug-Taker and the Physician — 18:43
5. 04 - Psychology and Drugs — 22:25
6. 05 - Alcoholics — 13:24
7. 06 - Help for the Hard Drinker — 35:57
8. 07 - Classification of Alcoholics — 37:13
9. 08 - The Injuriousness of Tobacco — 28:51
10. 09 - Tobacco and the Future of the Race — 15:28
11. 10 - The Sanatorium — 25:24
12. 11 - Preventive Measures for the Drug Evil — 25:55
13. 12 - Classification of Habit-Forming Drugs — 15:21
14. 13 - Psychology of Addiction — 20:47
15. 14 - Relation of Drugs and Alcohol to Insanity — 29:11
16. 15 - Appendix - The Relation of Alcohol to Disease — 47:49

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