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    J Stud Alcohol. 1978 Jan;39(1):143-74.

    The discovery of addiction. Changing conceptions of habitual drunkenness in America.

    Abstract

    The modern conception of alcoholism as a progressive, addictive disease dates from the late 18th century. By the mid-1800s it had become an integral part of American Temperance thought, as did the belief that total abstinence offered the only remedy for intemperance.

    PMID:
    344994
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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