Talk:Charles B. Towns

Needs help

I have noted the issues with this article that I feel require attention. As currently written, it appears largely to paint Towns as a quack and the interests of Towns and others involved in early recovery movements as motivated primarily by profit. It relies entirely too much on Pittman. The perspective of a qualified professional working in the field would be helpful. In fact, there is relatively little objective information about the man at all: his educational background & credentials (some sources credit him with a Ph.D.), an encyclopedic description of his motivations and circumstances surrounding his involvement in his work. If he was held in high enough esteem to be sent on a lofty (if ill-conceived) mission to China by the Theodore Roosevelt administration, why? What evidence is there to substantiate the decline of his reputation, if true? This is all missing from an objective, encyclopedic article about a man many interested in the history of alcoholism and addiction recovery would want to know better. Hipgnostic (talk) 02:00, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Charles B Towns was the first medical Doctor to convince Politicians into the use of Prescriptions . Regulating drugs in the state of New York which eventually spread to the rest of the United States . The Belladonna Treatment that is mentioned as well is false . Towns Hospital actually used ingredients that involved a Colloidal Iodine Solution involving Colloidal Gold and other ingredients . Not once did he or any of his staff use Belladonna though it was given the nick name . — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.20.31.52 (talk) 13:42, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Sources

I would add that this "Pittman" citation is not given in full ever in the references section. It only appears abbreviated to the surname. This is only acceptable if the first citation of Pittman is listed in full, which it is not. Perhaps the source does not even exist? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.114.75.240 (talk) 15:21, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

cf. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/health/20drunk.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.114.75.240 (talk) 15:24, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

Needs more than help - complete rewrite needed

Given the feedback to the discussion so far, and the low quality of the article as-is, it seems a complete rewrite is needed.

Unless there is significant objection, I say we proceed with a rewrite. Hipgnostic (talk) 06:07, 17 December 2017 (UTC)