Tiger By the Tail

Duration: 34

Year Published: 1972

Creator: KUAT-TV

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Traces the experiences of Danny O'Brien, a "skid-row" alcoholic, from his life in a junked car where he lived on cheap wine and accumulated 280 arrests for public intoxication to his voluntary admittance into the Detoxification, Rehabilitation, and Research Center in Tucson, Arizona. Follows Danny through a treatment program which includes classes about alcoholism, group therapy sessions, and extended out-patient care. Points out that since May of 1969 the Detoxification Center has treated more than 300 alcoholics, 60% of whom are still sober.