TY - JOUR PY - 1980// TI - Patterns of alcoholism over four years JO - Journal of studies on alcohol A1 - Polich, J. M. A1 - Armor, D. J. A1 - Braiker, H. B. SP - 397 EP - 416 VL - 41 IS - 5 N2 - Follow-up studies of 758 men alcoholics at 18 months and 4 years after admission to treatment reveal that alcoholism is a chronic and unstable condition, that remission occurs as both long-term abstinence and nonproblem drinking, that only modest improvements in social adjustments are observed and that the risk of nonproblem drinking versus abstinence varies among subgroups.
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