A reviewing the empirical literature, we suggest that advances in the assessment and
treatment of alcohol problems have the following important implications for health care …

Objective: Following in the footsteps of several prior attempts, this review seeks a
meaningful and data-based answer to the common question of how people fare, on …

Alcohol treatment systems expanded and diversified considerably over the past decade.
This reflects adaptation to a variety of forces, including developments in national health care …

This article represents the proceedings of a symposium at the 2000 RSA Meeting in Denver,
Colorado. The chair was Michael E. Hilton. The presentations were (1) The effects of brief …

• All admissions to the Singer Mental Health Center, Rockford, III, with a diagnosis of
alcoholism in a one-year period (N= 466) were randomly assigned to one of two inpatient …

The author reviews the progress made during the past decade in making acute hospital
facilities available to the alcoholic patient. He also describes the advances that have been …

OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this study was to conduct a comprehensive analysis of
alcohol-treatment service utilization trends in the general population during the 1980s …

Objective: The purpose of the study was to evaluate changes in health care utilization
associated with inpatient alcoholism treatment in alcoholics of low socioeconomic status …

Presents intake and 6-mo status data from patients treated in 45 community-based
alcoholism treatment centers, data from a special 18-mo follow-up in 8 of these centers, and …

During the 3 years prior to the inception of this research project, alcoholic patients at Winter
VA Hospital were treated in a psychoanalytically oriented, closed-ward setting. The …