Four-Year Follow-Up of Alcoholics Treated at a Rural State Hospital

Bernard J. Fitzgerald, Richard A. Pasewark, Robert Clark

Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol · 1971 · 45 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

Follow-up of 392 men and 139 women alcoholics for 4 years after a 16-week inpatient treatment program in a state hospital showed 44%, in equal sex proportion, to have benefited substantially. There were many year-by-year shifts in status, and a very high mortality.