What is alcoholism - Alcohol Use Disorder / Kati Morton

Today we talk about alcoholism or what the DSM 5 calls it now “alcohol use disorder.“ There are many alcohol related disorders in the DSM: alcohol use disorder, alcohol intoxication, alcohol withdrawal, other alcohol induced disorders & unspecified alcohol related disorder. The last two disorders are sort of catch all types of disorders if you don’t quite meet the criteria for one of the others listed. Now that you know the landscape of alcohol disorders, let’s get into alcohol use disorder: There are 11 cr