ABSTRACT
Alcoholism is drinking alcoholic beverages at a level that interferes with physical health, mental health, and social, family, or job responsibilities. The use of alcoholic beverages is very common in western society. To examine alleged alcoholic intake with the objective to assess whether clinical evaluation is sufficient to declare the case as positive for alcoholism. The study includes examination of 100 cases in the office of additional Police Surgeon GMMC Hospital Sukhur over a period of 01 year from January 2009 to December 2009. All the subjects were males and they were 16 - 35 years of age. All the cases belonged to Sukhur city. Majority were from labour class [40%] and followed by business community, and others. Among them 95% were Muslim. Clinically 85% were positive but laboratory tests showed 70% positive cases in 5% the report was misplaced or pilfered. We found that laboratory confirmation should be done before declaring the cases positive; to avoid the pilferage of samples they should be sent to laboratory through proper and fool proof mechanism