(1) This study tested the conflicting positions which maintain that moderate drinking invariably and rapidly leads alcoholics to uncontrolled inebriacy and that alcoholics are capable of sustaining controlled drinking over long periods without special training.
Inebriety
Definition:
(n.) Drunkenness; inebriation.
Example Sentences:
(1) From the beginning of the American Association for the Study and Cure of Inebriety (November 1870) and throughout its history, the leadership perceived that it was at the forefront of a therapeutic social movement--the pioneer of a new medical viewpoint as well as a new medical specialty.
(2) The well-known acute inebriety beside, there is the pathologic hallucinatory and delusive inebrieties.
(3) Nor was he enraptured by "the small change of Oxford evenings", and he was startled by the erratic inebriety of such celebrated Oxonians as Richard Cobb, although he shared Cobb's disdain for the uncritical Francophilia of so many of their colleagues.
(4) Restrictions on sale were one corollary, and the extension of medical control helped delineate a hypodermic morphine problem and disease theories of 'inebriety'.
(5) The practitioner must affirm the correlation between the observed perturbations and the absorption of alcohol, eliminate some disease simulating an acute inebriety and take the therapeutic decisions which assert themselves in a dramatic atmosphere.
(6) Excessive drinking, particularly inebriety, is considered to be the core of the alcohol problem.
(7) During the late nineteenth century a number of physicians, sometimes called inebriety specialists, combined a narrowly physicalistic disease concept of alcoholism with a high regard for the curative power of asylum treatment to advocate the development of specialized asylums for the treatment of alcoholism.
(8) There was no statistically significant correlation between the degree of inebriety and image quality or diagnostic performance with the radiographic technique used, with the patient supine.
(9) This article considers why inebriety specialists held this belief as well as why others opposed it.