sentences:  In 1958 de Ovies began writing a column for the Metropolitan Herald, an Atlanta weekly newspaper.De Ovies was on the cutting edge of treating alcoholism as a treatable illness and his book Dear Drunks published in 1958 was an outgrowth of his sessions treating alcoholics and an effort to de-stigmatize alcoholism and its treatment in an era when most people saw alcoholism as a person failing or a lack of self-control or discipline.That same April the magazine Pastoral Psychology named de Ovies its "Man of the Month" for his work as chaplain of the Peachtree Sanitarium and at the Georgian Clinic.