Records 1951-2003

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Records 1951-2003

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These records include minutes and agenda of Commission meetings and advisory body meetings; files on a number of Commissioners, including photos; annual reports; other reports written to and from, and sponsored by the Commission; correspondence; programs, flyers, and certificates relating to annual institutes and conferences; newsletters and other publications; membership lists; organizational charts; speeches, news releases, newspaper clippings, a map; etc. They comprise records of the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse and its predecessors (the Texas Commission on Alcoholism and the Statewide Committee on Problems of Alcoholism). Records date 1951-2003.

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Texas Committee on Alcoholism.

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Texas. Statewide Committee on Problems of Alcoholism.

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Texas Commission on Alcoholism

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Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse

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On February 27, 1951, Texas Governor Allan Shivers appointed a Statewide Committee on Problems of Alcoholism, which he charged with making a study and submitting recommendations to deal with alcoholism as a disease. As an outgrowth of this Statewide Committee, the Texas Committee on Alcoholism, Incorporated, was chartered on October 4, 1951 as a non-profit scientific, charitable and educational corporation; governed by a board of 26 directors, it was designed to help imp...