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Advances in the field of alcoholism in recent years were of vital importance for the understanding of evil, which can be treated but still no cure. Two main factors associated with the predisposition of compulsive consumption of alcohol: the environment and genetics. Recent discoveries have revealed that it is on the long arm of chromosome […]

Prone to Accidents According to the tenth revision International statistical classification of diseases and health related problems (ICD-10), in its section on the disorders caused by drug use and psychoactive substances, episodic alcoholism is grouped within the category conditions with dependency syndrome. In other words, dipsomania differs from occasional drunkenness (intoxication) and the harmful use […]