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Eustace, H J (1949) Addiction under the Mental Treatment Act, Eire, 1945. The Journal of Mental Science, 95, (400), pp. 693-5. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.95.400.693.

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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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