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The Young Alcoholic — Approaches to Treatment

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The title of the paper — “The Young Alcoholic — Approaches to Treatment” — was chosen by the conference organisers. The wording of the title, however, appears semantically appropriate; for a relative lack of clinical experience with the young alcoholic — not singular to the author, but currently shared by many workers in the field of alcoholism — renders any more definitive wording of the title unjustified.

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Gwinner, P.D.V. (1977). The Young Alcoholic — Approaches to Treatment. In: Madden, J.S., Walker, R., Kenyon, W.H. (eds) Alcoholism and Drug Dependence. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2337-2_24

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