THE BUD AND ITS RESOLUTION THROUGH PSYCHODRAMA

Abstract

One of the basic fundamentals of the alcohol treatment program at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Houston, Texas, is the concept of the BUD (Building Up to Drink). It has been the experience in the program that during treatment or after a period of abstinence an alcoholic develops specific involuntary behaviorisms that, in effect, are warning signals that a relapse is imminent. This phenomenon, the foreshadowing of the alcoholic's approach to replapse, has been termed the BUD, (Building Up to Drink).