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The First Year of Abstinence; Notes on an Exploratory Study

Earl Rubington

SUMMARY. Persons who stopped drinking while living in a halfway house ate and slept better, smoked less, drank more coffee, experienced more mood swings but fewer tensions, and had more problems in drinking situations than did persons who stopped drinking while living with their families or elsewhere in the community.