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When Will We Have a Standard Concept of Alcohol Dependence?
Author(s) -
CAETANO RAUL
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
british journal of addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0952-0481
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1987.tb01521.x
Subject(s) - operationalization , alcohol , alcohol dependence , psychology , field (mathematics) , social psychology , epistemology , mathematics , philosophy , chemistry , biochemistry , pure mathematics
Summary The alcohol field has had a number of competing definitions of alcohol dependence. The simultaneous revision of the DSM‐III and the ICD‐10 provided an opportunity for creating a standard concept, but this opportunity has been lost. In spite of being closer than before, the new proposals retain important differences regarding operationalization, wording and coverage of the concept of alcohol dependence.