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Addiction Under the Mental Treatment Act, Eire, 1945

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

H. J. Eustace*
Affiliation:
Hampstead, Glasnevin, Dublin

Extract

Many writers on the subject of the treatment of addictions have suggested that for treatment to be efficacious, a period of detention legally enforced is necessary, and it is perhaps strange that a country which tends to regard personal failings and idiosyncrasies with a kindly eye has been probably the first to provide a method of enforcing it without recourse to a legal sentence.

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Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1949 

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