alcoholic psychosis

American  

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

During his 20s, he was detained in hospital under the Mental Health Act on three separate occasions, suffering from alcoholic psychosis.

From BBC

There is a further most interesting fact, that this general paralysis in men is nearly three times as great in cities as in the country, and in women, twice as great; while alcoholic psychosis in women is seven times as great in cities.

From Project Gutenberg