Alcoholism: MedlinePlus
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Alcoholism
URL of this page: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/alcoholism.html
Also called: Alcohol dependence
For most adults, moderate alcohol use is not harmful. However, nearly 17.6 million adults in the United States are alcoholics or have alcohol problems. Alcoholism is a disease with four main features:
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- Craving - a strong need to drink
- Loss of control - not being able to stop drinking once you've begun
- Physical dependence - withdrawal symptoms, such as nausea, sweating or shakiness after stopping drinking
- Tolerance - the need to drink greater amounts of alcohol in order to get "high"
NIH: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
MEDICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA
National Institutes of Health
- The primary NIH organization for research on Alcoholism is the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
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