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Strategies for the Treatment of Alcoholism

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Handbook of Effective Psychotherapy

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Alcoholism is an exceedingly common and serious problem in our society. State-of-the-art estimation procedures place the number of alcohol-dependent persons in the United States at approximately 9 million with an additional 6 million persons diagnosable as nondependent alcohol abusers. Alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence are most prevalent among younger males. For both genders these problems tend to decrease with age (Williams, Grant, Harford, & Noble, 1989).

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Allen, J.P., Mattson, M.E. (1993). Strategies for the Treatment of Alcoholism. In: Giles, T.R. (eds) Handbook of Effective Psychotherapy. The Plenum Behavior Therapy Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2914-9_16

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