title: Alcohol abuse in the Old Testament.
abstract: The Old Testament offers significant lessons in the use and abuse of alcohol and may also contain pertinent clues as to why Jews, rarely abstinent, evince a remarkably low incidence of addictive drinking. Some observations are offered within the context of a modern classificatory system suggested in the Major and Minor Criteria for the Diagnosis of Alcohol outlined in 1972 by the National Council of Alcoholism in the United States.
mesh_terms: D000425:Alcohol Amnestic Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis; D000430:Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium / Q000175:diagnosis; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001633:Bible; D006801:Humans; D012068:Religion and Medicine