TY - JOUR PY - 1978// TI - The discovery of addiction. Changing conceptions of habitual drunkenness in America JO - Journal of studies on alcohol A1 - Levine, H. G. SP - 143 EP - 174 VL - 39 IS - 1 N2 - The modern conception of alcoholism as a progressive, addictive disease dates from the late 18th century. By the mid-1800s it had become an integral part of American Temperance thought, as did the belief that total abstinence offered the only remedy for intemperance.

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