Deficits in the Treatment of Alcoholism and Recommendations for Correction

WALTER E. BARTONAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 124, Number 12

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1679

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Existing treatment resources for the alcoholic patient are woefully inadequate, although there are a few outposts of good treatment. A round-the-clock resources are an exceptional and rare service. A description of some of the existing models of psychiatric services for alcoholism is given, and recommendations are formulated for improvement of psychiatric services for detoxification, evaluation and diagnosis, comprehensive treatment, and rehabilitation.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 124 • Number 12 • June 1968

Pages: 1679 - 1686

PubMed: 5650763

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Published in print: June 1968

Published online: 1 April 2006

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WALTER E. BARTON

Medical director of the American Psychiatric Association, 1700 Eighteenth Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. 20009, and clinical professor of psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine

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Deficits in the Treatment of Alcoholism and Recommendations for Correction

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