ALCOHOL ADDICTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does alcohol addiction mean? 

• ALCOHOL ADDICTION (noun)
  The noun ALCOHOL ADDICTION has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: ALCOHOL ADDICTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALCOHOL ADDICTION (noun)

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

alcohol addiction; alcoholism; drunkenness; inebriation

Hypernyms ("alcohol addiction" is a kind of...):

drug addiction; white plague (an addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug))

 Context examples 

In the new study, researchers looked at the extended amygdala, a brain region involved in fear, arousal, and emotional processing and which plays a significant role in drug and alcohol addiction.

(Researchers identify key brain circuits for reward-seeking and avoidance behavior, National Institutes of Health)

Efforts to discover and develop drugs to combat cancer and drug and alcohol addiction and methods of bioengineering to repair tissues are ripe for discovery.

(New Avenues for the Development of Therapeutics, NCI Thesaurus)