Sentence examples for debilitating alcoholism from inspiring English sources

From there, flash forward to the tragedies of his more recent history: debilitating alcoholism, outbursts of violence while at Harvard, dreams deferred, if not extinguished altogether.

Leaving Washington in 1973, Ms. Robertson spent two and a half years as a correspondent in the Paris bureau of The Times before debilitating alcoholism forced her to return to New York for treatment.

In Blake Bailey's 2003 biography, A Tragic Honesty, the personal chaos of Yates is thoroughly documented: he was subject to periodic phases of emotional and mental disturbance, to mania, to debilitating alcoholism, to self-destruction and bouts of introspection that left him out of the reach of those who wanted to help him.

Aside from Zevon's increasingly debilitating alcoholism, there was another problem: "Warren would never have been able to get a record deal if it weren't for Jackson, and he knew that, and that created a tension," says Crystal.

Drinking on an empty stomach was regarded as boorish and a sure sign for alcoholism, the debilitating physical and psychological effects of which were known to the Romans.

Currently, human nocardiosis has emerged as an increasingly common opportunistic pathogen among immunosuppressed patients, particularly those infected by acquired immune deficiency syndrome AIDS, other diseases (tuberculosis, lymphoma, lymphosarcoma, cirrhosis, diabetes), or debilitating conditions (organ transplantation, alcoholism, or prolonged use of corticosteroids) [ 3, 5].

Throughout her life, Stevens' mother was debilitated with schizophrenia and alcoholism.

Alcoholism is a debilitating disease that affects one in 13 adults in the US.

It is usually seen in immunocompetent patients with respiratory disorders, poor oral hygiene, alcoholism and chronic debilitating diseases.

Subjects whose behaviour or lifestyle would render them less likely to comply with study medication (ie, alcoholism, substance misuse, debilitating psychiatric conditions or inability to provide informed consent).

In a lengthy theater career whose ups and downs included a Tony-winning one-woman show, collaborations with Stephen Sondheim and Edward Albee, and a debilitating but ultimately successful battle with alcoholism, Stritch had a temperament that was outsized even by Broadway standards.