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Is a Mental or Behavioral Dysfunction.
"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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