title: Drinking behavior and "alcoholism".
abstract: Drinking is viewed as a functional behavior, an active response to environmental conditions, and excessive drinking as a compromise behavior resulting from ineffectiveness in mediating goals and resolving problems.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012718:Set, Psychology; D012920:Social Behavior Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D012931:Social Environment; D013315:Stress, Psychological