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Alcoholics in a penitentiary were more intelligent, older, had more previous arrests and shorter prison sentences and were more likely to be White than nonalcoholic prisoners. The prison adjustment of alcoholics who attended A.A. meetings was better than that of those not attending A.A. and of nonalcoholics.
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Roth et al. (1971) studied this question.
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