A prospective study of treatment outcome in alcohol dependence from a deaddiction centre in India.

But Gibbs and Flanagan (1977) in their review of 45 published articles on prediction ofout- come could not find any stable general predictor. Other recent studies also came to the same conclu- sion (Schuckit et al., 1986 ; Edward et al., 1988). Though our study did identify the unfavourable out- come group to have a higher family history of alco- holism and lower proportion ofabstinence in the past, this did not reach statistical significance.

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