Hi there
I have never heard of that term before but have you googled it - it seems that it is basically binge drinking? Reproduced some stuff below that came up on googl. But does it really matter what the technical classification is - it is still alcohol abuse by another name? On this site you will find many varieties or patterns of alcohol abuse - you name it we have got it. Like everything else in life there is no one size that fits all. Your husband needs to seek help but obviously he himself has to want to. There is a thread on this site for family members affected by alcohol which might be useful to you. Not sure if this is any help at all.
Regards
BH
Epsilon alcoholics
Quarter drunkard. This type of drunkard can get along for weeks without any alcohol, however, with crises or depressions it comes to a loss of control and excessive consumption of alcohol, often oven a period of several days.
More modern psychiatric classifications take place according the ICD-10 F10.xx (international classification of diseases) or according DSM-IV (diagnostic and statistic manual of psychiatric illnesses). The latter contains a coding and a criteria catalag. The partner often gets the state of a so-called "co-alcoholic": In order to play the role of an intact family, the alcohol problem of the partner is ignored, played down or completly covered.
Epsilon alcoholism is periodic alcoholism, otherwise known as binge drinking. This type of alcoholism results in a great deal of physical and emotional damage during periods of consumption, but there may be few consequences during non-drinking periods. For Jellinek, only the gamma and delta types of alcoholism could be classified as disease, although he was careful to caution that his theory was a working hypothesis in need of empirical testing and refinement (Lender, 1979; Miller, 1982).
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04-17-2008, 02:23 AM
Epsilon Alcoholic
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