Medicalization Of Alcoholism

Alcoholism | Definition, Causes, & Associated …

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A simplistic definition calls alcoholism a disease caused by chronic, compulsive drinking. A purely pharmacological-physiological definition of alcoholism classifies it as a drug addiction that requires imbibing increasing doses to produce desired effects and that causes a withdrawal syndrome when drinking is stopped.

The Medicalization of Alcoholism: Discontinuities in …

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The purposes of this paper, data for which are derived from research conducted on attitudes of alcohol and drug program professionals, are two-fold: first, to briefly examine the …

Medicalization – Subcultures and Sociology - Grinnell …

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When Was Alcoholism Recognized as a Disease?

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Like many other illnesses, alcoholism: Follows progressive steps Has definable symptoms Is chronic Can last a lifetime with definable symptoms

Medicalizing Addiction | Freedom Magazine

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Another major step toward the growing medicalization of addiction occurred in 2013, when the American …

Mrs. Marty Mann and the Early …

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/02/mrs-marty-mann-and-the-early-medicalization-of-alcoholism/252286/

Hence, if AA was the institution that, deep down, drove the modern alcoholism movement and if the movement's ideological centerpiece, the disease concept …

Medicalization and regulation of alcohol and alcoholism: …

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Copyright 1990 Pergamon Press plc Medicalization and Regulation of Alcohol and Alcoholism: The Professions and Disciplinary Measures Mimi Ajzenstadt …

Medicalizing Obesity: Individual, Economic, …

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/medicalizing-obesity-individual-economic-and-medical-consequences/2011-12

Defining Medicalization As Sadler and colleagues [1] define it, “‘medicalization’ describes a process by which human problems become defined and treated as medical …

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Mrs. Marty Mann and the Medicalization of Alcoholism

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Moreover, whereas a fully medicalized view of alcoholism might promote the appropriateness of alcoholism treatment as offered, say, by psychiatrists, other M.D.s, …