alcoholic psychosis

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any of a group of major mental disorders, as delirium tremens, Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, and hallucinosis, associated with organic brain injury due to alcohol.

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alcohol dependence, alcohol-free, alcoholic, alcoholic cirrhosis, alcoholicity, alcoholic psychosis, Alcoholics Anonymous, alcoholism, alcoholize, alcoholometer, alcohol use disorder

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“No one set out to be an alcoholic,” Gil told writer Patrick Sisson.
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By the time Prohibition was on the menu, we were very much an “alcoholic Republic.”
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I did think you had to end up on skid row if you were an alcoholic.
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In St. Vincent, the actor plays a foulmouthed, alcoholic chain smoker with no regard for anyone but himself.
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Rather hard on politicians this, to bracket their patriotic endeavours with pitch-and-toss and alcoholic indulgence!
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The patients either do not tell the truth, or have very elastic notions as to moderation in the use of alcoholic stimuli.
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Alcoholic subjects are very liable to unexpected death from a good many causes.
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The kidneys are prone to be affected more or less in old alcoholic subjects.
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The result is that these diseases are very frequently fatal in alcoholic subjects.
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alcoholic psychosis

n.

Any of various psychoses that result from alcoholism and involve organic brain damage.

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