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Successful Treatment of a Case of Drinamyl Addiction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Tom Kraft
Tom Kraft*
Affiliation:
St. Clement's Hospital, London, E.3
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Most reports on the treatment of drug addiction describe only some form of aversion therapy, either by electrical (Lesser, 1967) or chemical means (Raymond, 1964). There seem few reports in which any attempt has been made to correct the underlying disorder which was responsible for the patient's addiction (Seelye, 1967). The argument is put forward that the basic disturbance in drug addiction is frequently one of social anxiety, and that when this has been corrected the patient no longer requires drugs for his support.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 114 , Issue 516 , November 1968 , pp. 1363 - 1364
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1968 

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