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It seems as if the mental-health and judicial systems are frequently "working at cross purposes" in dealing with the problem drinking offender, said Robert F. Aiken [delivering a paper he had written with Dr. Sheldon Weiner of the University of Vermont]. Mr. Aiken is director of an alcoholism rehabilitation program funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and working in conjunction with the Waterbury Alcohol Safety Action Project of the U.S. Department of Transportation.