title: Alcoholism and the consultation-liaison psychiatrist.
abstract: This article hopes to remind the practitioner that alcohol abuse and dependence is the most common of psychiatric disorders, impacts on the general hospital at a variety of levels, repels our referrant-colleagues, and is difficult to diagnose but is eminently treatable. Because both clinicians and their patients are subject to alcohol abuse and dependence, the consultation-liaison psychiatrist is in an ideal position to impact therapeutically on alcoholism at all levels of presentation. Alcoholism is a natural object of a consultation-liaison psychiatrist's time, interest, and energy.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000436:Alcoholics Anonymous; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D005190:Family; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010815:Physician Impairment; D011570:Psychiatry; D012017:Referral and Consultation