Format
Scientific article
Publication Date
Published by / Citation
Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol: 1966, 27(1), p. 42-48.
Keywords
alcohol
disulfiram
aversion
pharmacotherapy
treatment
supervised consumption
coerced treatment
criminal justice supervision
crime
probation
retention
abstinence

Treatment of Skid-Row Alcoholics with Disulfiram

Conducted in 1962 and 1963 in Atlanta in the USA, the featured article seems the first to have tested whether problem-drinking offenders will take a drug which enforces abstinence by generating deterrent reactions to alcohol, if the alternative is a criminal justice sanction. Read more...