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Preferred term

Alcoholism  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • Addiction, Alcohol
  • Alcohol Addiction
  • Alcohol Dependence
  • Alcoholic Intoxication, Chronic
  • Chronic Alcoholic Intoxication
  • Dependence, Alcohol
  • Intoxication, Chronic Alcoholic

Note

  • human and animal; note entry term ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION, CHRONIC: do not coordinate with CHRONIC DISEASE; available also are BINGE DRINKING, DRUNKENNESS see ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION and ALCOHOLICS; acute alcoholic intoxication = ETHANOL /‌pois; consider also ALCOHOL-INDUCED DISORDERS and specifics; index other complications of alcoholism under ALCOHOLISM /‌compl + disease /‌etiol not /‌chem ind; abstinence from alcohol in alcoholism: coordinate with TEMPERANCE

Scope note

  • A primary, chronic disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. The disease is often progressive and fatal. It is characterized by impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking, most notably denial. Each of these symptoms may be continuous or periodic. (Morse & Flavin for the Joint Commission of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and the American Society of Addiction Medicine to Study the Definition and Criteria for the Diagnosis of Alcoholism: in JAMA 1992;268:1012-4)

In other languages

  • Finnish

  • alcoholismus
  • alkoholin käytön aiheuttama elimellinen aivo-oireyhtymä tai käyttäytymisen häiriö
  • alkoholin käytön aiheuttama riippuvuusoireyhtymä
  • alkoholin väärinkäyttö
  • alkoholiongelma
  • alkoholiriippuvuus
  • beroendeförhållande orsakad av alkohol
  • krooninen alkoholin väärinkäyttö
  • psykisk störning och beteendestörning orsakad av alkohol
  • Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000437

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