Treatment of Alcoholism
- 9 February 1989
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 320 (6) , 394-395
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198902093200611
Abstract
It is over 50 years since repeal of the Volstead Act ended the Prohibition "experiment." Since then, the United States has slowly evolved a public health approach to alcoholism.1 There has been gradual acceptance of the concept that alcoholism is a disease,2 as manifested in policy statements by the American Medical Association and the creation by Congress of the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism as part of the Public Health Service. The biomedical and biobehavioral research communities have been mobilized to promote scientific understanding of the disorder and to develop more effective modes of treatment and prevention. As . . .Keywords
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