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Current treatment programs for alcoholism reflect a broad-spectrum or multimodal approach that tacitly recognizes alcoholism as a biopsychosocial phenomenon. Many programs are designed, therefore, to address the physical, psychological, and social concomitants of alcohol abuse. In this respect alcoholism is similar to other chronic mental disorders for which comprehensive treatment is concerned with acute symptom control and improvements in psychological and social-role functioning. Ideally, symptomatic treatment and psychosocial rehabilitation are complementary components in an integrated approach to alcoholism (Miller and Foy, 1981).
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Foy, D.W. (1984). Chronic Alcoholism: Broad-Spectrum Clinical Programming. In: Mirabi, M., Feldman, L. (eds) The Chronically Mentally Ill. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9825-7_16
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