What technique is being used if you give an alcoholic an emetic drug so that each time she takes a drink she becomes violently ill

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Aversive conditioning involves pairing an unpleasant stimulus with a behavior to decrease the likelihood of the behavior being repeated. In this case, the emetic drug is the unpleasant stimulus and the behavior being targeted is drinking alcohol.

What Technique Is Being Used If You Give an Alcoholic