An ongoing process: A qualitative study of how the alcohol-dependent free themselves of addiction through progressive abstinence

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Yeh, Mei Yu ^a   Che, Hui Lian ^a   Wu, Shu Mei ^a,b  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TAIWAN; ADDICTION; ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF HELP; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLICS; ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS; ALCOHOLISM; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; HUMANS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF-HELP GROUPS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT CENTERS; TAIWAN; TEMPERANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 71849094975     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-9-76     Document Type: Article

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