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Women’s discourses/talks on alcoholism show that they consider it a transmissible disease. This disease, which can pass from mother to child as the syndrome of fœtal alkoholism, results both from social factors and external causes such as sorcerers’ attacks. Their discourses point out the complexity of day-to-day therapies, their different levels of lisibility, and show that cures do not limit to the strict observance of medical prescriptions. Here also plural logics determine the choice of the therapies. Any support of these women must take account of this reality, which is theirs.