Alcoholic drinking: suppression by a brief time-out procedure |
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Authors: | G Bigelow I Liebson H Griffiths |
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Institution: | Department of Psychiatry, Baltimore City Hospitals and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MarylandU.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Volunteer chronic alcoholics were given daily access to substantial quantities of alcohol within a residential research setting. Drinking was suppressed to an average of approximately one-half of Baseline levels when 10 or 15 min of physical and social isolation was required as an immediate consequence to receiving each one-ounce drink of 95-proof ethanol. This time-out procedure suppressed the drinking of nine out of ten subjects. Drinking returned to high levels when brief contingent time-out was discontinued. The relevance of such reversible controlling relationships to the treatment of alcoholism is discussed. |
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Keywords: | Reprints may be obtained from the authors Department of Psychiatry Baltimore City Hospitals Baltimore Maryland 21224 U S A |
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