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Along the
last centuries a group of specialists -
having/not having scientifically education - for
the toxicomania problem couldn't freeze with the
old knowledge related to the consequences of the
physical intoxication and they seek to get
additional information regarding the patient's
psychic before and along the installation of the
alcohol dependence's evolution.
In this field, a noticeable
contribution is the one of the American professor
E.M.Jellinek who stated a
typology of the alcohol's consumers; he
classified them in 5 categories.
The alcoholism's forms
(by prof. E. M. Jellinek)
ALFA
Type
They consume alcohol to
relieve themselves, trying to solve the
problems in this way. In this type still
exists control on alcohol's consumption,
but progressively the dependence
could appear.BETA
Type
They consume alcohol
frequently, on different occasions, without
the dependence
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being
still installed. Although could occur
some organical complications due to alcohol's
abuse (liver's and stomach's diseases, etc).
GAMA Type
They are are dependent by
alcohol firstly from the psychic, but
physical point of view too. They can't control
the consummated amount of alcohol (they can't
stop after few glasses of drinks).
DELTA Type
They are firstly physically dependents
by alcohol. They can keep control on the
consummated amount of alcohol for a longer time
(they don't get drunk, but they can't give up).
EPSILON (periodicals) Type
They are dependents by
alcohol, consuming uncontrolled for few
days, having at the same time longer periods
without abusive consumption.
We can sustain that the
biographies of the person's dependent of alcohol
are as different and alike such as the people's
biographies in general.
Starting from this point the
professor E.M.Jellinek elaborated a synthetically
description of the alcohol's dependence evolution
that is fit for a large part of the alcoholics,
having an important contribution for
understanding the phenomena that what has been
seen until then like an aleatory and tragically
destiny becomes the natural evolution of a
disease - the alcoholism.
The professor Jellinek assesses 4
evolution phases for the alcohol's
dependence and a group of characteristic symptoms
of each. The described symptoms should not appear
obligatorily for the each case and also should
not be present all of the symptoms for a phase.
The phases of alcohol's
dependence evolution
(by prof. E. M. Jellinek)
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