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Alcoholism, also known as alcohol use disorder (AUD), is a broad term for any drinking of alcohol that results in problems.

It was previously divided into two types: alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence.

In a medical context, alcoholism is said to exist when two or more of the following conditions is present: a person drinks large amounts over a long time period, has difficulty cutting down, acquiring and drinking alcohol takes up a great deal of time, alcohol is strongly desired, usage results in not fulfilling responsibilities, usage results in social problems, usage results in health problems, usage results in risky situations, withdrawal occurs when stopping, and alcohol tolerance has occurred with use.

Risky situations include drinking and driving or having unsafe sex among others.

Alcohol use can affect all parts of the body but particularly affects the brain, heart, liver, pancreas, and immune system.

This can result in mental illness, Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome, an irregular heart beat, liver failure, and an increase in the risk of cancer, among other diseases.

Drinking during pregnancy can cause damage to the baby resulting in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

Generally women are more sensitive to alcohol's harmful physical and mental effects than men.

Drug rehabilitation (often drug rehab or just rehab) is a term for the processes of medical or psychotherapeutic treatment, for dependency on psychoactive substances such as alcohol, prescription drugs, and street drugs such as cocaine, heroin or amphetamines.

The general intent is to enable the patient to confront substance dependence, if present, and cease substance abuse in order to avoid the psychological, legal, financial, social, and physical consequences that can be caused, especially by extreme abuse.

Treatment includes medication for depression or other disorders, counseling by experts and sharing of experience with other addicts.

Some rehab centers include meditation and spiritual wisdom in the treatment process.

A few centers also treat gambling with the same techniques as are used in drug rehabilitation.

A minority group refers to a category of people differentiated from the social majority, those who hold the majority of positions of social power in a society, and it may be defined by law.

Rather than a relational "social group", as the term would indicate, "minority group" refers to the above-described.

The differentiation can be based on one or more observable human characteristics, including: ethnicity, race, religion, caste, gender, wealth, health or sexual orientation.

Usage of the term is applied to various situations and civilizations within history despite its popular misassociation with a numerical, statistical minority (Barzilai, 2010).

In the social sciences, the term "minority" is sometimes used to describe social power relations between dominant and subordinate groups, rather than simply indicating demographic variation within a population.

Furthermore, from an intersectional sociological perspective, any given individual may simultaneously occupy both a majority identity and a minority identity, depending on the intersection of different social categories (e.g. around age, religion, gender, and so on).