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Diagnosis of alcoholism
1University of California-San Diego, School of Medicine.
The Medical Clinics of North America
|September 1, 1988
Abstract:
Alcoholism is among the most prevalent of the difficult diseases to establish diagnoses in medicine. This article outlines a number of steps to help in identifying the alcoholic patient. These include: a careful history, several laboratory blood tests, simple paper-and-pencil tests, and recognition of alcohol-related medical disorders.