It is clinically useful to distinguish between assorted commonly occurring, alcohol-induced psychiatric symptoms and signs on the one hand and frank alcohol-induced psychiatric syndromes on the other hand. A syndrome generally is defined as a constellation of symptoms and signs that coalesce in a predictable pattern in an individual over a discrete period of time. Severe alcohol use disorder (alcoholism) is an alcohol use disorder (AUD) characterized by an inability to control or stop drinking alcohol despite adverse effects on […]