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Follow-up studies of 758 men alcoholics at 18 months and 4 years after admission to treatment reveal that alcoholism is a chronic and unstable condition, that remission occurs as both long-term abstinence and nonproblem drinking, that only modest improvements in social adjustments are observed and that the risk of nonproblem drinking versus abstinence varies among subgroups.
Polich et al. (Thu,) studied this question.