NETER alcoholic typology (NAT).
OBJECTIVE
To establish an alcohol-dependent drinker's clinical typology, based on patients attending the Alcoholism Unit of Santa Maria's General Hospital in Lisbon, Portugal.


METHODS
A multivariate statistical analysis was used to extract the typology solution.


RESULTS
We obtained five factors: Anxiopathic, typifies anxious functioning; Heredopathic, congregates familiar and genetic influences on alcoholism; Thimopathic, typified by affective symptomatology; Sociopathic, characterized by disruptive behaviours under alcohol influence; and Adictopathic, isolates younger individuals who consume alcohol and other types of psychoactive substances.


CONCLUSIONS
There are increasingly alcoholic polymorphic subtypes derived from the interactive complexity between genetic/family and psychosocial factors.
Cardoso
J M Neves
JM
Alcoholism Unit Staff, Núcleo de Estudos e Tratamento do Etilo-Risco (NETER), Lisbon, Portugal. josenevescardoso@hotmail.com
Barbosa
Antonio
A
Ismail
Fatima
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Pombo
Samuel
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