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January 1973

About Alcoholism - Alcoholism Information, Research and Treatment

Doctors Disagree

In American Medical News, Roger Reid, MD, kicked off a controversy by questioning the disease concept of alcoholism. Letters in a later issue both agreed and disagreed with such statements of Dr. Reid's as "Alcoholism is and always will be symptomatic of character defects."

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