Abstract
Alcoholism is less accepted as a disease than mental illness by the general public and the medical community. Various forms of mental illness are now considered true diseases; schizophrenia and manic-depressive illnesses are currently diagnosed and treated as disorders whose roots are from biochemical origins in the brain. The evidence for this contention is derived from animal research and response to pharmacological agents in these disorders.1
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Miller, N.S., Gold, M.S. (1991). Introduction and History. In: Alcohol. Drugs of Abuse a Comprehensive Series for Clinicians, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3550-2_1
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