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The natural history of alcoholism revisited is a revised and updated version of what was and still is regarded as a classic and certainly broke new ground during the 1980s the new text provides an update based on developments over the past 15 years and its importance again derives from the fact that almost all the alcohol abusers . The natural history of alcoholism revisited 1995 is a book by psychiatrist george e vaillant that describes two multi decade studies of the lives of 600 american males non alcoholics at the outset focusing on their lifelong drinking behaviours. In natural history of alcoholism revisited dr vaillant notes that rather than alter the original text i have chosen to add data collected and literature reviewed since 1980 in new sections under headings marked revisited he also states that one purpose of using separate sections for new material is to underscore the relativity that time imposes. When the natural history of alcoholism was first published in 1983 it was acclaimed in the press as the single most important contribution to the literature on alcoholism since the first edition