Clinical questionnaire to detect early signs of alcoholism

Finding ways to objectify the diagnostic process is one of the leading problems of modern psychiatry and substance abuse treatment. The main emphasis in diagnosing mental disorders is on identifying symptoms specific to a particular nosological form, and the evaluation of observed psychopathological phenomena is based on the clinical and descriptive method of examination. The latter circumstance can lead to a subjective diagnosis, since the same symptoms may be interpreted differently by researchers.