NCJ Number
81886
Journal
British Journal of Psychiatry Volume: 135 Dated: (1979) Pages: 28-34
Date Published
1979
Length
7 pages
Annotation
SUMMARY The progress of 52 chronic alcoholic habitual drunken offenders who were offered a detoxification, assessment and referral service as an alternative to penal management for their public drunkenness was compared over a year with 48 control subjects, and each group's progress in the experimental year was compared with that in the previous year.
Abstract
The 'detoxification' patients were found not to have benefited as regards their alcoholism or episodes of drunkenness, though their periods of abstinence were longer. There were significant improvements in their accommodation and self-reported quality of life, and it is likely that their physical and perhaps mental health improved. (Author abstract)