If I really mean what I am about to write next, I will preface it with this: please read the four excellent pieces on ethanol and the commentary on stigma assembled below, before you bother with my editorial. If you then have time, maybe then come back to the editorial.

In presentations to trainees, I will commonly end the lecture or seminar in what seems to be a non sequitur, a quiz:  1) How many among you had an adequate amount of sleep last night according to your custom? 2) Who has had a balanced meal within the past 24 hours, which you would not be ashamed to discuss with your mother? 3) How many of you have had more than an hour of serious exercise within the past 48 hours? And 4), who has expressed gratitude or appreciation to another person in the past day?

Sometimes I’ll ask about meditation, but as that has been described as “intrusive” by some students, I do so less often; why that would be seen as more intrusive than asking about an expression of gratitude, I don’t know. Perhaps it’s because “meditation”” gets conflated with religion.

Pretty clearly, the purpose of the exercise is to remind students of their obligation to demonstrate what they preach.  What put me in mind of this was having just read that Dr. Anthony Stephen Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, intends to undergo COVID-19 immunization publicly.  AA’s 12^th Step of course includes the admonition to “…practice these principles in all our affairs.”