Different patterns of successful long-term adjustment in genetically defined subtypes of alcoholics.
In this personal two-decade follow-up of 55 socially well adjusted male alcoholics it was found that patterns of successful adjustment differed significantly between type 1 and type 2 alcoholics, as defined by Cloninger, Bohman and co-workers, with a higher frequency of stable sporadic abuse ("atypical abuse") and lower frequency of social drinking or abstinence in type 2 alcoholics (p less than .01). In this sample atypical abuse was related to psychiatric and social outcome characteristics as favourable as in social drinking and abstinence.
Department of Psychiatry I, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden.
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D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000235:genetics / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012917:Social Adjustment; D013548:Sweden