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303 Alcohol dependence syndrome

          A state, psychic and usually also physical, resulting from taking alcohol,
          characterized by behavioral and other responses that always include a
          compulsion to take alcohol on a continuous or periodic basis in order to
          experience its psychic effects, and sometimes to avoid the discomfort of its
          absence; tolerance may or may not be present. A person may be dependent on
          alcohol and other drugs; if so also make the appropriate 304 coding. If
          dependence is associated with alcoholic psychosis or with physical
          complications, both should be coded.
          Acute drunkenness in Chronic alcoholism
           alcoholism Dipsomania
          Excludes: alcoholic psychoses (291.-)
           drunkenness NOS (305.0)
           physical complications of alcohol, such as:
           cirrhosis of liver (571.2)
           epilepsy (345.-)
           gastritis (535.3)
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