Outlook: prospects for alcoholism treatment.
Treating alcoholism reduces many alcohol-related social, economic, and medical problems. A historical lack of support for alcoholism treatment and for alcoholism treatment research is disappearing, and significant progress is being made toward developing new and improved treatments. Current research findings are the basis of this "Outlook" which is divided into three levels of confidence: clear extrapolations from present research, extrapolations that are reasonable but uncertain, and predictions that attempt to guess the unguessable. It concludes that the future looks promising for new and improved alcoholism treatments.
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National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Rockville, MD 20857.
D000437:Alcoholism / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D000431:Ethanol / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D012106:Research / Q000639:trends; D013375:Substance Withdrawal Syndrome
D000431:Ethanol