TREATMENT OF ALCOHOLICS

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28256, 18 April 1957, Page 9

TREATMENT OF ALCOHOLICS

Course Planned For Doctors (New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN, April 17. A short post-graduate course for doctors on the problems of alcoholism is planned by the National Society on Alcoholism, which ended its first national conference in Dunedin yesterday. This course, the first of its kind in New Zealand will be held in Dunedin, and will be held over a week-end. Similar courses will be held later in other centres. It is planned to build up panels of doctors in each district to give assistance in special cases of alcoholism. The conference was attended by all the Dunedin members of the national executive, and by representatives of the branches now established, in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Delegates were welcomed by the Mayor (Sir Leonard Wright). The national president (Dr. J. E. Caughey) reviewing the progress of the society in the two years since it was formed in Dunedin, said information centres were now established in Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin and facilities would be available in Wellington soon.

A clinic was already operating in Dunedin, and Auckland would soon establish one under the auspices of the hospital board. The conference decided to set up a co-ordinating committee in Wellington to keep in touch with Government departments, particularly the Health and Justice Departments. A publications committee will also be established to prepare and distribute fresh literature dealing with the problem.