Increasingly, medical practitioners tend to divide alcoholism into several stages like dependence, tolerance and addiction to determine the accurate course of treatment for recovery. Based on the severity of these stages, they now diagnose alcohol use disorder (AUD). The above step was formulated to overcome the loopholes of the earlier classification that divided the problem into just two stages—abuse and addiction. Apparently, many cases of alcoholism used to get lost earlier in between the stages of abuse and addiction. The removal of the earlier classification has further widened the scope of maintaining a track of earlier interventions. Read more