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"Inebriety" emerges as a diagnosis to explain addiction.

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Inebriety is explained as a disease triggered by an "underlying mental disturbance." In other words, addiction itself is seen as the symptom of an underlying disease that shapes a person to be more vulnerable to addictive behaviors.