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Footnotes

1) Article: THE TYRANNY OF EXPERTS by Morris E Chafetz,M.D.

Extract: Trends or truth? Our desire to read meaning into trends is an ancient human trait-we have always seen omens in co-incidence. If the rain came when a chant was sung, our ancestors believed it brought the rain. More recently, when several studies found that young drug experimenters in the 1960's and 1970's tended to use alcohol before they used drugs, researchers concluded that experimentation with alcohol led to experimentaion with drugs. The conclusion seems obvious because we are predisposed to believe it. We could just as well conclude that daily use of alcohol leads to financial well-being since a study of Harvard's class of 1949 showed that those who drank every day had higher incomes than occasional drinkers or non-drinkers. Based solely on the data, we have no idea whether daily drinking has anything to do with the subsequent use of drugs.

2) Paper: Types of natural recovery from alcohol dependence: Bischof et al

Types of natural recovery from alcohol dependence: Bischof et al

(Addiction 2003 Blackwell) Gallus Bischof Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

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