TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1975//
TI  - Meditation and the prevention of alcohol abuse
JO  - American journal of psychiatry
A1  - Shafil, M.
A1  - Lavely, R.
A1  - Jaffe, R.
SP  - 942
EP  - 945
VL  - 132
IS  - 9
N2  - The authors surveyed the frequency of alcohol use in individuals identified as practitioners of Transcendental Meditation (N equals 126) and a matched control group (N equals 90). No control subjects reported discontinuation of beer and wine use; 40 percent of subjects who had meditated for more than 2 years reported discontinuation within the first 6 months. After 25-39 months of meditation, this figure increased to 60 percent. In addition, 54 percent of this group, versus 1 percent of the control group, had stopped drinking hard liquor. The authors suggest that meditation could be an effective preventive tool in the area of alcohol abuse.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0002-953X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -