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Comparison of Hospital and Prison Alcoholics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Christopher F. J. Ross
Christopher F. J. Ross*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Edinburgh University; now at Department of Psychology, Bexley Hospital, Dartford Heath, Bexley, Kent
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Half the prison admissions for England and Wales are of persons on drunkenness charges (BMJ 1968). Ratcliff (1966) records that there were, in one year, 1,180 occasions in Scotland when a man was actually imprisoned as a result of a drinking offence. He found that on average the offender had seven previous sentences for the same alcoholic offence. An important factor for prison alcoholics is the extent to which they resemble or differ from alcoholics who are receiving psychiatric treatment.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 118 , Issue 542 , January 1971 , pp. 75 - 78
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1971 

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