Alcoholism is a disease, because the set of phenomena resulting from the loss of control when drinking, meets all the requirements required to consider medicine as a disease of a particular set of symptoms and signs: it has a natural history is a clinical readily identifiable and similar in all individuals who have it, there is an etiology (cause), a pathogenesis (biological factors underlying the disease), prognosis, treatment, and a number of strategies for prevention.
Alcoholism is a chronic, insidious development and progressive evolution, characterized by the inability of individuals to control their drinking, which results in most of the times when alcohol is consumed, the affected do it excessively and develop problems with their health, family, work and society in general. This loss of control is a result of psychic and physical dependence on alcohol that the individual has developed from eating too frequently and for a time and a genetically determined predisposition for addiction to substances.
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