Origins, Treatment and Destiny of Skid-Row Alcoholic Men

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THIS paper reports a ten-year-follow-up study of a group of indigent alcoholic men. In 1950 we established a work-oriented halfway-house program for their rehabilitation at the Boston Long Island Hospital.1 In 1956 we evaluated 101 patients who had volunteered for this program four years previously.2 In 1962 we re-evaluated this treatment group. For comparison, we made an extensive record search not only of these 101 patients but of an additional 108 skid-row alcoholics who entered the Hospital in 1952 but who, for one reason or another, never applied for the halfway-house treatment program. This record search consisted of gathering data . . .

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