An application of anomy theory to the study of alcoholism.

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Abstract
Of 442 patients (14% women) in 6 Washington state [USA] alcoholism clinics, the McClosky-Schaar Anomy Scale test classified 20% as nonanomic, 37% moderately anomic and 43% severely anomic. According to the Phillips Phases of Alcoholism Scale 13% were classified as early, 46% as middle and 40% as late stage alcoholics. Of the early-stage alcoholics, 63% were nonanomic, while of the middle- and late-stage alcoholics 86 and 85% were moderately or severely anomic. This positive association between the developments of anomy and of alcoholism could not be explained by selected sociocultural variables, which suggests that alcoholism contributed to the patients'' anomy, and that anomy becomes more severe as alcoholism progresses.

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