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.
Nordström
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Department of Psychiatry I, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden.
Berglund
M
M
D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000235:genetics / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012917:Social Adjustment; D013548:Sweden