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Alcoholism   Listen
noun
alcoholism  n.  
1.
(Med.) Chronic excessive drinking of alcoholic beverages that leads to social, occupational, psychological and physiological problems.
2.
(Med.) Psychological and physiological dependence on alcohol; sudden cessation of drinking may lead to withdrawal symptoms.





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"Alcoholism" Quotes from Famous Books



... Tredgold, who in England has most carefully studied the heredity of the feeble-minded,[29] found that in over eighty-two per cent cases there is a bad nervous inheritance. In a large number of cases the bad heredity was associated with alcoholism or consumption in the parentage, but only in a small proportion of cases (about seven per cent) was it probable that alcoholism and consumption alone, and usually combined, had sufficed to produce the defective condition of the children, while environmental ...
— The Task of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis


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