Updated October 21, 2014.
Definition: A primary, chronic disease with genetic, psychosocial and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. Alcoholism is characterized by a continuous or periodic impaired control over drinking; preoccupation with alcohol; and use of alcohol despite adverse consequences and distortions in thinking, most notably denial.
Also Known As: alcohol dependence, dipsomania
Examples: One symptom of alcoholism is the inability to control one's drinking.
Definition: A primary, chronic disease with genetic, psychosocial and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. Alcoholism is characterized by a continuous or periodic impaired control over drinking; preoccupation with alcohol; and use of alcohol despite adverse consequences and distortions in thinking, most notably denial.
Also Known As: alcohol dependence, dipsomania
Examples: One symptom of alcoholism is the inability to control one's drinking.
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