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The Discovery of Addiction; Changing Conceptions of Habitual Drunkenness in America
Harry Gene Levine
SUMMARY. 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.
