Pre- and Posthospitalization Alcoholic Arrests in a Rural State

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Arrest rates of 180 male alcoholics admitted to the Wyoming State Hospital [USA] in 1969 were compared with the general Wyoming population during 1965-1973. Of the alcoholics, 67% had no arrests before or after hospitalization; prehospitalization arrest rates were higher than the general population for robbery, assault, sex offenses, theft, public intoxication, drunk driving, traffic offenses and vagrancy; following hospitalization, arrest rates were reduced significantly in all categories except robbery and embezzlement and fraud; and posthospitalization alcoholic arrest rates were lower than the general population for all offenses except robbery, public intoxication and DWI [driving while intoxicated].

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