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Definitions of Disease
- An abnormal condition of an organism or part.
- An environmental stress, that impairs normal physiological
functioning.
- A psychological or physical condition which has symptoms
and can be treated.
- A condition or tendency, regarded as abnormal or pernicious.
- "Dis-ease" without ease, lack of comfort.
- A pathological condition of the body that presents a group
of symptoms peculiar to it and which sets the condition apart
as a abnormal entity differing from other normal or pathological
body states.
Definitions of Alcoholism
- Any use of alcohol beverages that causes damage to the individual,
society or both.
- A chronic disease manifested by repeated implicative drinking
so as to cause injury to the drinker's health or to his/her social
or economic functioning.
- An alcoholic is a person who cannot predict with accuracy
what will happen when he takes a drink.
- An alcoholic is a person who is addicted to alcohol.
- Alcoholism is a disease in which the person's use of alcohol
continues despite the problems it causes in any areas of his
or her life.
- Alcoholism is a compulsive use or abuse of alcohol involving
psychological dependence, with or without physical dependence.
Myths of Alcoholism
- An alcoholic drinks in the morning.
- An alcoholic is a skid-row bum.
- An alcoholic has a purple nose.
- Alcoholics never eat.
- An alcoholic drinks everyday.
- Alcoholics only drink hard liquor.
- Alcoholics are failures.
- Alcoholics drink alone.
- Alcoholics always lose their jobs.
- Alcoholics are always drunk.
- Weekend drinkers are not alcoholics.
- Alcoholics are always in bars.
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