alcoholic psychosis

noun

1. any of a group of major mental disorders, as delirium tremens, Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, and hallucinosis, associated with organic brain injury due to alcohol.

Example Sentences

During his 20s, he was detained in hospital under the Mental Health Act on three separate occasions, suffering from alcoholic psychosis.

From BBC

In 1908, an episode of what sounds like alcoholic psychosis had landed him in a sanitarium, and when he got out, he moved back to Norway.

From New York Times

"In the past 14 years,'' said Debr�, "total deaths from alcoholism have multiplied by twelve, deaths from cirrhosis of the liver by six, and entries into hospitals for alcoholic psychosis by 18.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is a further most interesting fact, that this general paralysis in men is nearly three times as great in cities as in the country, and in women, twice as great; while alcoholic psychosis in women is seven times as great in cities.

From Project Gutenberg