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What You Need To Know About Alcoholism

  In this article we shall talk about all the major facets of alcoholism and we shall see how we can work to deal with the issue. Let us start with the basic question: How can one define alcoholism? Alcoholism can be defined as a chronic brain disease where one is driven by the desire to consume alcohol almost constantly, and there is apparently a loss of control on the consumption of alcohol. Basically, there is no control on the urges or the habit of consumption. This condition is interchangeably called Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD). There is another important aspect or symptom of this complication: the individual who has AUD experiences a chronic sense of negativity when he/she is not using alcohol. This is a major aspect of this issue. A thing to note that the terms AUD and Alcoholism are often used interchangeably. Here is a list of signs and symptoms which are often used for identification of AUD in an individual: 1. A consistently strong urge or compulsion to drink 2. There is a de