On Feb 13, 8:05*pm, "F.H." <connec...@verizon.net> wrote:
> The old Schick Centers used the shock treatment. *Research doesn't speak
> well of it. *For one thing, (surprise) shocking someone can sometimes
> cause some unpleasant psychological after affects.- Hide quoted text -

They still do but not in the same manner as psychiatric treatments. It
is used on patients who cannot take the chemical aversion.

They have you take a drink and then you get a good jolt of Edison
medicine. Soon yer mind associates drinking with getting zapped and
you don't want to get zapped more than you want to drink. It keeps 'em
sober while they go thru psychotherapy.

A friend, Bill White put together a great book titled "Slaying the
Dragon, the history of addiction and recovery in America." I did some
history presentatrions with him and it is a great book for 20$ (81/2 X
11 soft cover).

One of the most surprising things I found was that there were more
treatment centers in the U.S. in the period 1880 to 1910 than existed
in the 1970's.
Jimbo