Treatment of Skid-Row Alcoholics with Disulfiram

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Format

Scientific article

Publication Date

1 January 1966

Published by / Citation

Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol: 1966, 27(1), p. 42-48.

Themes

Addiction

Keywords

alcohol

disulfiram

aversion

pharmacotherapy

treatment

supervised consumption

coerced treatment

criminal justice supervision

crime

probation

retention

abstinence

Conducted in 1962 and 1963 in Atlanta in the USA, the featured article seems the first to have tested whether problem-drinking offenders will take a drug which enforces abstinence by generating deterrent reactions to alcohol, if the alternative is a criminal justice sanction. Read more...

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