The Circulating Alcoholic

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Abstract
Whenever alcoholics are treated there is a failure rate. Davies et al. (1956), in a two-year follow-up of fifty alcoholics who had received very full hospital treatment, noted that eleven failed to show any benefit. Little information is available on the subsequent career of patients who fail to respond to treatment, a fact which reflects our general ignorance of the natural history of alcohol addiction (Lemere, 1953; Davies, 1962). A proportion of these patients will drift from hospital to hospital, and a parallel career is seen among those who, instead of embarking on a sequence of hospital admissions, become caught up in a cycle of court sentences.

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