Famed researcher of alcoholism, founder of the Center of Alcohol Studies, and co-founder of the National Council on Alcoholism. His well-known The Disease Concept of Alcoholism delineated five levels of alcoholism: alpha (problem drinking), beta (problem drinking with health problems), gamma (loss of control with severe health and social consequences), delta (long-term heavy drinking), and epsilon (periodic) alcoholism. These terms are not used nowadays, but the categorical descriptions are.
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