Habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms.
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1 You take one side or the other in the war against drunkenness .
2 In this case the charges were non-support and drunkenness and extreme cruelty.
3 It is by the sloth, the drunkenness or the villainy of servants.
4 It is never the kind of drunkenness you know in America, however.
5 Objection 1: It would seem that drunkenness is the gravest of sins.
1 However, little is known about whether alcoholism also affects rapid, spontaneous processing.
2 Currently, no therapeutic options exist to mitigate the pulmonary consequences of alcoholism .
3 Dereliction of duty, alcoholism , suicide-suicidebecame almost epidemic among the officer corps.
4 Experts attribute it to a mix of poverty, alcoholism and drug violence.
5 In 1928 Devant's wife, Marion Melville, died as a result of alcoholism .
1 Stupefaction became sleep; with sleep inebriation passed; and Frank awoke to misery.
2 She had, in a state of beastly inebriation , fallen into the fire.
3 Professor Lyall went off to hunt down the earl's source of inebriation .
4 On this last point, of inebriation , this is certainly a wonderful camp.
5 This is a country were inebriation and social interaction go hand in hand.
1 The court was told the men had received treatment for alcohol addiction .
2 Growing evidence suggests that glutamate neurotransmission plays a critical role in alcohol addiction .
3 She also ordered him to seek treatment for his alcohol addiction .
4 But even as Winehouse rose to stardom, she battled drug and alcohol addiction .
5 Recent studies suggest that inflammation could contribute to alcohol addiction .
6 How he's stayed clean for the last 15 years after overcoming his alcohol addiction .
7 Approximately 50 percent will develop an alcohol addiction later on in their own life.
8 Her ears were pointed, and the alcohol addiction had melted her skin like putty.
9 And they are mostly dying from drug and alcohol addiction as well as suicide.
10 As a result of his alcohol addiction , Jose Jose's health deteriorated rapidly since the 1990s.
11 Madeline didn't think Sutton was good for Thayer, who was recovering from his alcohol addiction .
12 She'd led me to recognize my alcohol addiction , to face my growing alienation from Pete.
13 Ford said he regretted not getting treatment "years ago" to treat his alcohol addiction .
14 Drug and alcohol addiction is a common problem.
15 In the north-east we suffer immense inequalities in health and life expectancy due to alcohol addiction .
16 Alkermes makes drugs to treat alcohol addiction and bipolar disorder and is developing drugs for diabetes.
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