“In the old days, the alcoholic was caught in the revolving door of the jail. Then it was the hospital, because the doctors didn’t know how to treat the disease. Early rehab was the same. Out of jail, out of the hospital, out of rehab … out of a job. How could these people who needed to work, who wanted to work, get jobs without references? So I got together with some government agencies, I put up some money myself, and we started a job placement program. Now the recovered alcoholic has someplace to go, a chance to rebuild his life. We’re stopping the revolving doors.”

Source:Town and Country Magazine article from May 1986 about R. Brinkley Smithers “Alcoholism’s Sober Philanthropist” by Harry Minetree.