| People have been drinking from brown paper bags for | | | | their employment capabilities. |
| years now throughout the western world, although it is | | | | He therefore concluded that treatment was |
| difficult to say from when it has been part of our | | | | necessary and nothing much has changed since then |
| culture. The terminology alcoholism though dates back | | | | except that the definition has been slightly altered by a |
| to 1849 and has been attributed to Magnus Huss, who | | | | number of medical affiliations. The word alcoholism is |
| was a pioneer is related alcohol to serious health | | | | currently referred to by the American Medical |
| conditions. | | | | Association as a particular chronic primary disease. |
| The word alcoholism itself was not actually recognized | | | | There are though let's say a minority in the medical |
| in the US until the late 1930s, through the formation of | | | | profession who just will not accept that alcoholism is |
| the alcohol support group known as Alcoholics | | | | actually a disease, so critics like Herbert Fingarette and |
| Anonymous or AA as it is sometimes referred to. AA | | | | Stanton Peele only use the term heavy drinking in |
| does not actually give alcoholism a concrete definition, | | | | relation with the harmful effects of alcohol |
| but recognizes it as something between an allergy and | | | | consumption. |
| an illness with a team support method of accountability | | | | So due to the fact that alcoholism does not actually |
| and responsibility being a way to control alcoholism. | | | | have a concluded definition, the disease itself is not |
| The first Doctor to classify problems in chronic | | | | always easy to detect. It is extremely difficult to really |
| alcoholics was E. Morton Jellinek from New England. | | | | pick out the differences between an alcoholic and |
| He defined an alcoholic as being a person who through | | | | somebody who just drinks on a regular basis. If you |
| the consumption of such large quantities of alcohol, had | | | | need a more detailed review regarding the disease of |
| resulted in dramatic effects on his or her bodily and or | | | | alcoholism then you should start off by having a look |
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| affecting the alcoholic's personal relationships and or | | | | information. |