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I found this news today..
Definitions to increase alcoholism
THE number of Australians diagnosed with a drinking problem could soar as a result of proposed changes to how alcohol-related disorders are defined.
Drug researchers believe the number of people who will fit the criteria for a disorder will rise by about 60 per cent, to about 500,000, under new criteria in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
The manual is being updated to create more accurate psychiatric diagnoses. But critics have charged it will expand the criteria for many disorders, leading to more people being considered mentally ill.
A postdoctoral fellow at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of NSW, Louise Mewton, said alcohol use disorder could be diagnosed using two symptoms that were very common.
The first, tolerance, was meant to capture long-term drinkers who could consume a lot without showing effects, but occurred naturally in younger people as their brains developed.
The second, drinking more or for longer than you intended, was meant to capture people who compulsively drank but cast too wide a net.
A research article she wrote, published in the journal Addiction, used data from nearly 8000 drinkers aged over 18, applying the new criteria to the answers they had given when the survey was conducted.
Under the current manual, about 2 per cent met the criteria for alcohol abuse and 4 per cent for dependence, while under the new manual nearly 10 per cent were affected.
I have nothing to say about this. I didn't know that these kind of things are necessary..Well, yeah maybe they need to categorize alcoholism now in different degrees I think.