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ARTICLES RELATED TO Alcoholism - Diagnosis | | | |  Alcoholism - Diagnosis: Encyclopedia II - Alcoholism - DiagnosisThere have been many efforts at diagnostic approaches to alcoholism.
In a 1992 JAMA article, the Joint Committee of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and the American Society of Addiction Medicine published this definition for alcoholism: "Alcoholism is 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, mostly denial. Each of these ...
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| | | | Alcoholism - Diagnosis: Encyclopedia II - Alcoholism - Discussion The use of alcohol in this illness leads to impact upon physical, occupational, marital, educational, and other areas of function, despite which the patient continues to drink. The disease can be lifelong and can be sometimes treated through ongoing therapy accompanied by attendance at self-help meetings. Although medications have been developed to assist in the treatment of alcoholism, the research has not yet demonstrated long term efficacy for any specific methods of treatment. Alcoholics do not typically experience craving, unlike indivi ...
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| | | | Alcoholism - Diagnosis: Encyclopedia II - Alcoholism - Discussion The use of alcohol in this condition leads to impact upon physical, occupational, marital, educational, and other areas of function, despite which the individual continues to drink. The condition can be lifelong and can be sometimes treated through ongoing therapy accompanied by attendance at self-help meetings. Although medications have been developed to assist in the treatment of alcoholism, the research has not yet demonstrated long term efficacy for any specific methods of treatment. Alcoholics do not typically experience craving, unlike ...
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| | | | Alcoholism - Diagnosis: Encyclopedia II - Alcoholism - Politics and public health Because alcohol abuse affects society as a whole, governments and parliaments have formed alcohol policies in order to reduce the harm of alcoholism. The World Health Organization, the European Union and other regional bodies are working on alcohol action plans and programs.
Organisations working with alcohol abusers include:
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
IOGT International (IOGT)
LifeRing Secular Recovery (LifeRing)
Men For Sobriety (MFS)
Moderation Management (MM)
Rational Recove ...
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| | | | Alcoholism - Diagnosis: Encyclopedia II - Alcoholism - Alcohol withdrawal There are several distinct but not mutually exclusive clinical alcohol withdrawal syndromes caused by alcohol withdrawal:
Tremulousness - "the shakes"
Activation syndrome - characterized by tremulousness, agitation, rapid heart beat and high blood pressure.
Seizures - acute grand mal seizures can occur in alcohol withdrawal in patients who have no history of seizure or any structural brain disease.
Hallucinations - usually visual or tactile in alcoholics
Delirium tr ...
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| | | | Alcoholism - Diagnosis: Encyclopedia II - Alcoholism - As a disease The American Society of Addiction Medicine and the American Medical Association both maintain extensive policy regarding the disease of alcoholism. The American Psychiatric Association recognizes the existence of "alcoholism" as the equivalent of alcohol dependence. With the publication of the DSM-III in 1980, two separate syndromes of alcohol dependence and alcohol abuse replaced the earlier category of alcoholism. The World Health Organization dropped the diagnostic category "alcoholism" in 1979, replacing it with the diagnos ...
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| | | | Alcoholism - Diagnosis: Encyclopedia II - Alcoholism - Effects Today, alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence are major public health problems in North America, costing the region's inhabitants an estimated US$170 billion annually. Alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence are life-threatening problems that sometimes end in death, particularly through liver, pancreatic, or kidney disease, internal bleeding, brain deterioration, alcohol poisoning, and suicide. Heavy alcohol consumption by a pregnant mother can also lead to fetal alcohol syndrome ...
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| | | | Alcoholism - Diagnosis: Encyclopedia II - Alcoholism - Social versus physical dependence Symptoms of a person's dependence on alcohol may include, but are not limited to, a feeling of necessity in regard to consumption of alcohol, or an inability to resist alcohol if offered. Though these symptoms often arise from a physical dependence on the substance, it is not uncommon for individuals, especially teenagers and adolescents between the ages of fifteen and twenty, to rely on alcohol as a means of social interaction. If a person cannot refuse alcohol in the presence of others, insists on drinking alcohol excessively for fear of a ...
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| | | | Alcoholism - Diagnosis: Encyclopedia II - Alcoholism - Treatments Treatments for alcohol dependence include detoxification programs run by medical institutions. These may involve stays for a number of weeks in specialized hospital wards where drugs may be used to avoid withdrawal symptoms, which in severe cases may lead to death.
After detoxification, various forms of group therapy or psychotherapy can be used to deal with underlying psychological issues leading to alcohol dependence. Aversion therapies may be supported by drugs like Disulfiram, which causes a strong and prompt hangover whenever alc ...
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| | | | Alcoholism - Diagnosis: Encyclopedia II - Alcoholism - As a disease The American Society of Addiction Medicine and the American Medical Association both maintain extensive policy regarding alcoholism. The American Psychiatric Association recognizes the existence of "alcoholism" as the equivalent of alcohol dependence. With the publication of the DSM-III in 1980, two separate syndromes of alcohol dependence and alcohol abuse replaced the earlier category of alcoholism. The World Health Organization dropped the diagnostic category "alcoholism" in 1979, replacing it with the diagnostic categories ...
See also:Alcoholism, Alcoholism - Discussion, Alcoholism - Diagnosis, Alcoholism - Biological mechanism, Alcoholism - As a disease, Alcoholism - Effects, Alcoholism - Long-term, Alcoholism - Screening, Alcoholism - Blood tests, Alcoholism - Treatments, Alcoholism - Social impact, Alcoholism - Social versus physical dependence, Alcoholism - Politics and public health, Alcoholism - Alcohol withdrawal Read more here: » Alcoholism: Encyclopedia II - Alcoholism - As a disease |
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| | | | Alcoholism - Diagnosis: Encyclopedia II - Alcoholism - Effects Today, alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence are major public health problems in North America, costing the region's inhabitants, by some estimates, as much as US$170 billion annually. Alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence are life-threatening problems that sometimes end in death, particularly through liver, pancreatic, or kidney disease, internal bleeding, brain deterioration, alcohol poisoning, and suicide. Heavy alcohol consumption by a pregnant mother can also lead to fetal alcohol syndrome, an uncurable and damaging condition.
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| | | | Alcoholism - Diagnosis: Encyclopedia II - Alcoholism - Screening Several tools may be used to detect the habitual abuse of alcohol. The CAGE questionnaire, developed by Dr. John Ewing and named for its four questions, is one such example that may be used to screen patients quickly in a doctor's office.
Two "yes" responses indicate that the respondent should be investigated further.
The questionnaire asks the following questions:
Have you ever felt you needed to Cut down on your drinking?
Have people Annoyed you by criticising your drinking?
Have y ...
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| | | | Alcoholism - Diagnosis: Encyclopedia II - Alcoholism - Blood tests Although there is no blood test specific for alcohol abuse or alcohol dependence (alcoholism), prolonged heavy alcohol consumption may lead to several abnormalities, including:
Macrocytosis (enlarged MCV)1
Elevated GGT2
Moderate elevation of AST and ALT and an AST:ALT ratio of 2:1.
High carbohydrate-deficient transferrin2
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| | | | Alcoholism - Diagnosis: Encyclopedia II - Alcoholism - Social impact The social problems arising from alcohol abuse can include loss of employment, financial problems, marital conflict and divorce, convictions for crimes such as drunk driving or public disorder, loss of accommodation, and loss of respect from others who may see the problem as self-inflicted and easily avoided. Alcohol dependence affects not only the addicted but can profoundly impact the family members around them. Children of alcohol dependents can be affected even after they are grown; the behaviors commonly exhibited by such children are c ...
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