INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT AMONG RECENTLY ABSTINENT ALCOHOL ABUSERS

Two samples of adequately detoxified hospital-treated alcohol abusers were neuropsychologically assessed for alcohol-related cognitive impai rment. Both groups manifested the commonly found impairments on the We chsler Adult Intelligence Scale (N = 50) and the Revised Wechsler Adul t Intelligence Scale (N = 44). In addition, an almost identical patter n of substantial impairment was found when both groups were examined b y Russell's (1975, 1988) version of the logical memory and visual repr oduction subtests of the Wechsler Memory Scale. A clear pattern of mem ory impairment for both verbal and non-verbal memory was found.