AMBULATORY TREATMENT OF CHRONIC ALCOHOLISM

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The treatment of chronic alcoholism has long been regarded as unsatisfactory. As far as can be determined from the literature, therapeutic measures have heretofore embraced only certain phases of the problem and there has been no adequate unified approach toward the various problems confronted in treatment. Some of the principal attempts that have been made in dealing with this disorder are the socioreligious approach of the Alcoholics Anonymous, psychoanalytic treatment, the conditioned reflex technic, the religious appeal to will power and faith and the punitive approach of the courts as well as the many attempts to use medication in the treatment of this disease by the medical profession. Abstinent groups, such as Alcoholics Anonymous, recognize the great value of engaging the alcoholic addict actively in the social activities of a nondrinking environment and of offering him more constructive ways of employing his vocational ability and leisure time, using mutual understanding

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