chronic alcoholism
Long-term alcohol dependency
Chronic alcoholism is a long-term pattern of excessive drinking that has become compulsive and physically damaging.
The term emphasizes both duration and severity—not occasional heavy drinking but sustained dependence that typically causes health problems, social dysfunction, and withdrawal symptoms when alcohol is unavailable.
Medical contexts now often prefer "alcohol use disorder," but chronic alcoholism remains common in general usage: His chronic alcoholism destroyed his liver and his marriage.
- detoxificationRemoving harmful substances internally
- addictionCompulsive substance reliance
- drinking problemAddiction to alcohol
- hitting the bottleDrinking alcohol excessively
- cravingPowerful urge to have
confabulation · cirrhosis · thiamine · rehabilitation · withdrawal symptoms · domestic violence · neuropathy · malnutrition · stigma · lost weekend · compulsion · impaired judgment · denial · family intervention · liver damage · ascites · AA · immune suppression
- Alcoholismalcohol abuse, alcohol addiction, alcohol dependence, dependence, dependency
- despair deathssuicide, drug overdose, heroin overdose, fentanyl overdose, alcohol poisoning
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Total sobriety as principle
alcohol abstinence · social drinking · moderate drinking · responsible drinking
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Excellent physical condition
healthy lifestyle · mental clarity · vitality · clean living · liver health
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Unimpaired mental state
teetotalism · abstemiousness · temperance · recovery · abstinence
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