Abstract
The most important and difficult problems in the treatment of alcoholism are how to relieve alcoholics from addiction, and how to keep them from addiction for a long time until they are completely cured.Practically, however, in many cases, the abstinence forced on heavily-addicted alcoholics ends in failure even though it may be successful temporarily. This shows how difficult abstinence is for alcoholics. Therefore, we must try to find some other effective therapy. If it is possible to reduce the alcohol tolerance of the patient and if allowed to drink as much as ordinary people do instead of depriving him of the pleasure of drinking entirely, such a therapy probably is the most reasonable one.For this purpose, the authors worked out a new therapy for reforming the problematical drinking habit by administering cyanamide to alcoholics, and named it “Sesshu Ryoho” or the temperance therapy.
