Abstract
Alcohol is the most commonly abused substance creating serious medical and psychological problems. I will present an overview of emergency problems here, but the extensive discussion of rehabilitation that serves as a prototype for the rehabilitation of substance abusers in general is presented in Chapter 15.
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Schuckit, M.A. (1984). Alcoholism: Acute Treatment. In: Drug and Alcohol Abuse. Critical Issues in Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1176-8_4
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