Drinking means alcoholism when the act of drinking is accompanied with particular behaviours. Psychologically, alcoholism is not drinking too many units over a prescribed week (although make no mistake in believing that any active alcoholic drinks LESS than this amount - it does not mean the same thing). Instead, alcoholics are psychologically and/or physiologically addicted to the drug. One of the problems with diagnosis and treatment of this disease is that it is incredibly hard to spot in some people; alcoholism, like certain other addictions, is affected by personality, which means it ...
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