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Group Counselling of Alcoholics by a Voluntary Agency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

J. S. Madden  and
W. H. Kenyon
J. S. Madden
Affiliation:
Addiction Unit, Moston Hospital, Chester, CH2 4AA
W. H. Kenyon
Affiliation:
Merseyside Council on Alcoholism, B15 The Temple, Dale Street, Liverpool, L2 5RU
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The Merseyside Council on Alcoholism (M.C.A.) is the first operative regional council on alcoholism in the United Kingdom; it is a voluntary organization employing full-time staff (Kenyon, 1972). In its first ten years it has counselled over 4,000 alcoholics; about one third of these needed admission to hospital, so arrangements for admission were early established with general and psychiatric hospitals and with the regional addiction unit. After individual counselling by the M.C.A. (aided when necessary by detoxification at home, or in a medical or psychiatric ward) the alcoholics usually return to work.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 126 , Issue 3 , March 1975 , pp. 289 - 291
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1975 

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