1 the condition of being unable to stop drinking too much alcohol, often causing you to be unable to live and work in society
They also provide broad assessments of variables that co-occur with parent alcoholism, permitting analyses delineating the specificity of these effects.
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.
