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Alcoholics: Their Treatment and their Wives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Charles G. Smith*
Affiliation:
Center for Occupational Mental Health, 21 Bloomingdale Road, White Plains, New York 10605; Department of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Morningside Park, Edinburgh, 10

Extract

This report is based on a study carried out at the Unit for the Treatment of Alcoholism, Royal Edinburgh Hospital. The unit and its orientation has been described elsewhere (Walton, Ritson and Kennedy, 1966; Ritson and Smith, 1967). It is usual for patients to stay in hospital for six weeks rather than the three to four weeks that was the practice earlier (Walton et al., 1966).

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1969 

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