Alcoholism: Treatments

Treatments for alcoholism are quite varied because there are multiple perspectives for the condition itself. Those who approach alcoholism as a medical condition or disease recommend differing treatments than, for instance, those who approach the condition as one of social choice.

Alcoholism: Effects

The primary effect of alcoholism is to encourage the sufferer to drink at times and in amounts that are damaging. The secondary damage caused by an inability to control one’s drinking manifests in many ways.

Alcoholism: Epidemiology

Substance use disorders are a major public health problem facing many countries. “The most common substance of abuse/dependence in patients presenting for treatment is alcohol.”[9] In the United Kingdom, the number of ‘dependent drinkers’ was calculated as over 2.8 million in 2001.[10] The World Health Organization estimates that about 140 million people throughout the world suffer from alcohol dependence.

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