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Alcoholism

Psychopathology, Etiology, and Treatment

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A review of the manner in which the behavioral and neurobiological disorders associated with alcoholism have been treated in the successive editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) provides fascinating insight into public and professional views on alcoholism during the 35 years separating the first and the latest editions of the work.

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