Alcohol abuse in the Old Testament.
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.
D000425:Alcohol Amnestic Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis; D000430:Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium / Q000175:diagnosis; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001633:Bible; D006801:Humans; D012068:Religion and Medicine