title: The relationship of wives' treatment to the drinking status of alcoholics.
abstract: When an alcoholic's wife is active in Al-Anon, participates in her husband's inpatient treatment or postreatment counseling or receives several types of treatment, her husband is more likely to be abstinent.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000359:Aftercare; D000436:Alcoholics Anonymous; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D003376:Counseling; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D008722:Methods