title: Patterns of alcoholism over four years.
abstract: Follow-up studies of 758 men alcoholics at 18 months and 4 years after admission to treatment reveal that alcoholism is a chronic and unstable condition, that remission occurs as both long-term abstinence and nonproblem drinking, that only modest improvements in social adjustments are observed and that the risk of nonproblem drinking versus abstinence varies among subgroups.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012046:Rehabilitation; D012917:Social Adjustment; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders