Drinking at the “Ok Corral”

Abstract

Classifies all drinking into one or another of four categories, correlated with the four quadrants of the OK Corral. Links blood alcohol concentration to attitudinal sets and alcohol problems drinking on the one hand, or therapeutic modifications, on the other.

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