Six-and 12-month follow-up data are reported for 20 male alcoholics who received either a multifaceted inpatient alcoholism treatment program alone (controls) or emetic or shock aversion therapy in addition to that program. Results indicated that emetic treatment exerted a modest beneficial effect at the 6-month mark, but control and emetic subjects did not differ at the 12-month mark. Both emetic and control subjects compiled more days of abstinence than shock subjects at both the 6-and 12-month follow-up intervals. Analysis of the relationship between inpatient measures of the strength of alcohol aversions and posttreatment drinking revealed an inverse relationship between heart rate response to alcohol and number of days of drinking. Implications of these results for further research on aversion therapy are discussed.

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