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alcoholism | American Dictionary

alcoholism
noun[ U ]
us/ˈæl·kəˌhɔˌlɪz·əm, -hɑlˌɪz-/
the condition of being unable to stop drinking too much alcohol, often causing you to be unable to live and work in society

Examples of alcoholism

alcoholism
A 56-year-old man was admitted to a psychiatric clinic for treatment of alcoholism known for the last 25 years.
In fact, many physicians administered morphine on a maintenance basis as a strategy for ending alcoholism.
These consistencies with prominent theories of adult alcoholism suggest that some aspects of theories of adult alcoholism may be usefully applied to adolescent substance use.
Like the personal behaviors noted above, from alcoholism to cigarette smoking, obesity had become socially sinful - a condition that has largely persisted ever since.
Therefore, the familial nature of alcoholism may differ among families recruited in treatment centres from those identified in the general community.
Perhaps there are larger differences related to familial alcoholism in parents' aversive, negative parenting than in the supportive and consistent parenting measured here.
These factors are explored in two cases of public health policy: anti-smoking policy and alcoholism policy.
Controlling for smoking during pregnancy and parental regular smoking, a significant residual association between low birth weight and paternal alcoholism remained.
Parents were excluded if they had chronic alcoholism, drug addiction, brain trauma, or psychoses of toxic origin.
The quality of parent - infant interactions was hypothesized to be a proximal mediator of the associations among alcoholism and other risk factors and attachment.
Impact of fathers' alcoholism and associated risk factors on parent-infant attachment stability from 12 to 18 months.
Offspring of parents in which at least one parent is affected by alcoholism have an increased risk of developing such a disorder.
However, no causal inferences can be drawn about the role of alcoholism or depression in predicting insecurity.
At the 15-year assessment parents were further questioned concerning their history of alcoholism or alcohol problems and criminal offending.
Direct interview data confirmed that neither biological nor custodial parents met criteria for a lifetime alcoholism diagnosis.
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