title: Loss of control, heavy drinking and drinking problems in a longitudinal study.
abstract: The utility of conceptualizing alcoholism as a typically progressive disease process with regular, predictable stages is questioned. "Loss of control" was found to be only one variable among others in predicting drinking problems. It was not possible to confirm the importance that some disease conceptions of alcoholism assign to it.
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology*; D004651:Employment; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D011336:Probability; D012926:Social Control, Formal; D013997:Time Factors