28th International Congress On Alcohol And Alcoholism

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9125.1967.tb00704.x
• Date: 01 August 1967
• Published date: 01 August 1967

Communications

And

Notes

28th International

Congress

On

Alcohol And Alcoholism

The Twenty-Eighth International Congress on Alcohol

and

Al-

coholism

will

be

held at the Shoreham Hotel, Washington,

D.C.,

Sep-

tember 15-20,

1968.

The Congress comes to the United States for the

first time

since

1920.

This

quadrennial meeting

is

singularly the most important interna-

tional occasion for the

field

of alcoholism and alcohol related problems.

The purposes are four-fold:

1.

To present scientific findings in the

field

of alcohol problems.

2.

To

foster closer reIationships, improved communications and

other collaboration between the governmental and private groups

interested in these medical-social-health problems.

3.

To encourage further research and professional activity in the

field.

4.

To

provide through the mechanism of published proceedings the

state

of

knowledge in reference to biochemical, pharmacological,

socio-cultural, psychological and medical aspects

of

alcoholism.

Appointment

Dr.

Anthony

S.

Kuharich has retired from

20

years in Federal service

to accept

an

appointment

as

Commissioner of Correction for the State of

Indiana.

Dr.

Kuharich, appointed by Governor Roger Branigan, took of-

fice

on

April

1,

1967.

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