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Treatment of Alcoholism in Trinidad and Tobago, 1956-65

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

M. H. Beaubrun
M. H. Beaubrun*
Affiliation:
University of the West Indies, and University College Hospital, Kingston, Jamaica
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This paper describes and attempts to evaluate an alcoholism treatment programme in two Caribbean islands with a multi-racial population of just under a million. The programme, initiated by the author in 1956, combined emetine aversion treatment in a group setting, with milieu therapy and group psychotherapy of a didactic kind aimed at producing conversion (rather than aversion) to uncritical belief in the tenets of Alcoholics Anonymous.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 113 , Issue 499 , June 1967 , pp. 643 - 658
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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