Impressions of Jewish alcoholics.
Jews, constituting 6% of the adult population in Toronto, contributed 0.5% of all admissions to one private and one public clinic for alcoholism during a 10-year period. Their demographic, sociocultural and psychological characteristics, and several modes of adjustment to being Jewish alcoholics, are described.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D001007:Anxiety / Q000150:complications; D003469:Culture; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007585:Jews; D007599:Judaism; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009864:Ontario