Psychiatrist Leo Hennigan's hellish time fighting the Japanese in the South Pacific in World War II paled in comparison to the hell alcoholism put him through for some 15 years.

As a medical corpsman, he participated in three invasions--two into the steaming jungles of New Guinea and one on the Philippine island of Luzon. But these operations occupied just 14 months of his life and didn't tear at his emotional and spiritual core like alcohol addiction did.

"I experienced this hell all because of the ignorance of the medical profession," the 79-year-old ...

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