The alcohol dependence is a complex discipline, at the intersection of medicine, biology, anthropology, psychology, sociology, law, religion, economics and business.The aim of our study is to evaluate some clinical aspects and any significant differences related to gender. Recently studies have found gender differences in patients with dual diagnosis. The abuse of alcohol, for example, appears frequently before the depressive disorder in men and not women.The dual diagnosis with depression, moreover, would seem to be more common in women.The association between dependence / abuse of alcohol and depression is also significantly higher in women than men in several studies. A subject that has enthralled many disciplines is the etiology of alcoholism: it has always felt the need to understand the reasons of alcohol abuse, now hereditary calling, now blaming the family or society, now seeking states of mental degeneration, organic or moral, but always using a model of cause and effect.This type of monofactorial setting has actually contributed to a great confusion and made it more difficult to find a model of etiology of alcohol dependence and hence the structuring of therapeutic and preventive strategies. Only in recent decades the contributions of neuroscience have allowed to consider alcohol dependence as an illness or disabling condition outside the volunteer control of the patient.
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