Reason local is confused with home endlessly? (10)

I believe the answer is:

alcoholism

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'reason' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both states of affairs as well as being singular nouns.
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'local is confused with home endlessly?' is the wordplay.
'confused with' is an anagram indicator.
'endlessly?' means to remove the last letter (I've seen 'endlessly' mean this).
'home' with its last letter removed is 'hom'.
'local'+'is'='localis'
'localis' with its letters anagrammed with 'hom' makes 'ALCOHOLISM'.

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(Other definitions for alcoholism that I've seen before include "Addiction to drink" , "Drink problem" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.

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