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)
    

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A lecherous drinker sits with a girl at a barrel table in a dingy tavern. Engraving by P. Canot, c. 1756, after D. Teniers, the younger.

A wife asking her drunkard husband to hand over a bottle of alcoholic drink. Lithograph by B. Chavannaz, ca. 1920.

Liranol : clorhidrato de promacina "Wyeth" para tratamientos de alcoholicos, picopatas y narcomanos agitados / Laboratorios Wyeth Interamericanos Inc.

A poor London street strewn with hopeless drunkards and lined with gin shops and a flourishing pawnbroker. Engraving, c. 1751, after W. Hogarth.

Noah, drunk and naked, being covered in a garment by his sons, Shem and Japheth; with a border of naked men holding medallions. Halftone after Michelangelo.

Alkoholismus und Arbeiterfrage / von H. Herkner.

A man in his office is confronted by an innkeepr who presents him with a wine bill, in the presence of other men. Wood engraving.

Smoking and drinking / by James Parton.

Woman of substances : a journey into drugs, alcohol and treatment / Jenny Valentish.

Alcoholism

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Alkoholismus und Arbeiterfrage / von H. Herkner.

A man in his office is confronted by an innkeepr who presents him with a wine bill, in the presence of other men. Wood engraving.

Smoking and drinking / by James Parton.

Woman of substances : a journey into drugs, alcohol and treatment / Jenny Valentish.

Barnabies summons : or, Paie your groat in the morning.