Alcoholism is addiction to alcohol. Both physical and psychological factors are usually involved.
Alcoholic, alcoholism?
It means that there is a lack of consensus regarding the actual causes of alcoholism.
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A double metaphor. To be on the wagon means that you have given up drinking alcohol. A vat of alcoholism suggests a lot of alcoholism (a vat is large) and at the same time the word vat is usually applied to large containers of alcoholic drinks. To sum up it means going from one extreme of not drinking at all to the other extreme of heavy drinking.
No. Statistically, there is a slightly greater chance of people of Northern European (especially Celtic) ancestry developing alcoholism than the general population, but it is by no means a guarantee. Most Irish are not drunks, and by no means are all drunks Irish.
No herb cures alcoholism.
Alcoholism is not inheritable.
That is not a symptom of alcoholism.
In "AA Language," the "ism" refers to the problems and character defects that are left after you remove the alcohol.
There is no gene known to cause alcoholism.
The environment cannot CAUSE alcoholism.