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Social Attributes, Problem Drinking and Alcoholism Treatment Contacts; Labeling versus Social Etiology

J. L. Fitzgerald, H. A. Mulford

SUMMARY. Comparison of problem drinkers who either did or did not contact a public alcoholism treatment facility showed that neither a social etiology nor a labeling hypothesis fully explains why certain problem drinkers contact public treatment centers while others do not.