Foreword We all know well about the fundamentally destructive nature of the disease of alcoholism. It affects the body, intellect, emotions and soul of the person who becomes its victim. It is a fatal disease by its nature. We know it is incurable, but it can be stopped. Over the past 50 years, hundreds of thousands of alcoholics have managed to stop their illness and live happy, successful and productive sober lives. However, one of the greatest tragedies here is that many alcoholics experience temporary relief, after which they return to drinking. According to available data, approximately half of alcoholics who approach the threshold of sobriety cross it, and remain sober. Many of the rest stay sober for a while, relapse one or more times, then taste the sober life and don't drink again until they die. Of those who remain, many “go in cycles,” begin to get sober again and again, and then return to using. Some of them, of course, eventually die. Terry Gorski was tasked early in his professional career with trying to help these "extremists." He understood that some of them would obviously never recover - the damage done to them by drinking alcohol was irreparable. For the others, however, he suggested that perhaps there was a way to help them achieve that sobriety that others had found a little easier than they had. And this young man devoted fifteen years of his life (and is still working on it) to studying the medical histories of thousands of these poor people who returned to use again and again.