Another limitation is that results from a single-site study may not generalize to all treatment settings and alcohol dependent populations. Nevertheless, generalizability is supported by the absence of associations between demographic variables with any outcome variable, the high rate of randomized (150) to evaluated (185) volunteers, and the broad range of alcoholism severity included in our sample. However, none of our community-dwelling volunteers required detoxification.44 Indeed, our participants typically drank 5 days per week and were able to achieve the required 3 days of abstinence prior to randomization simply with monitoring and advice to taper drinking to further reduce risk.
