February 8th, 2010
We illustrate in broad terms the most common symptoms of alcoholism to give us a clearer idea of what can happen to us if we abuse of alcohol and we create a dependency.
As alcohol consumption increases the anger and increasing tolerance to the effects at first, when you start eating, appeared relatively soon.
As they increase the dosage will increase the need to drink alcohol on a daily, include becoming continuous, if before he took occasionally throughout the day, end up consuming almost constantly.
This continued use will cause the person to lose control over alcohol, becoming the latter who controlled him. There comes a time when the person realizes they have a problem but the need for intake of alcohol is much greater than any reasoning to do and not to feel accused, blamed or have negative feelings that you’re doing, start drinking in alone or in places not known to others.
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February 6th, 2010
Sex and age
Many people who watch a doctor had a drinking problem at some point. Most are men, but the incidence of alcoholism in women has been increasing over the past 30 years.
For men, the overall risk for developing alcoholism is a 3% to 5%, and for women the risk is 1%. Women tend to become alcoholic later in life than men, but the medical problems that develop because of the disorder occur in the same age as in men, suggesting that women are more susceptible to physical toxicity of alcohol.
Although alcoholism usually develops in early adulthood, the elderly are not exempt. Moreover, some 3 million Americans over age 60 are alcoholics or have a drinking problem.
Alcohol affects the older body differently, and people who hold the same drinking patterns as they age can easily develop alcohol dependency without realizing it.
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February 5th, 2010
The Three Stages Of Alcoholism
Every alcoholic drink in their own way, but all people with an alcohol problem have something in common:
- They can not control your drinking.
- At first, develop tolerance to alcohol. So, when taking endure much, compared with the other people who drink.
- Consequently, increasingly need to take to achieve the same effects as before.
- But this is temporary, it lasts forever.
Later, the opposite happens: the drinker needs very little alcohol, sometimes a single drink to get drunk. It becomes then, of those who can not tolerate anything. Although each alcoholic follows its own path toward the disease, one can say generally that all alcoholic goes through three stages.
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February 4th, 2010
Effects of short-term alcohol
- Slow reflexes and reduced motor coordination.
- Language unclear and mispronunciations.
- Feeling of confidence and freedom (deshinibidor).
- Reduced ability to concentrate on a theme.
- Alterations in perception: visual hallucinations, auditory and tactile.
- Distortion of emotions, sudden changes in mood that can range from joy to tears or aggression.
- Difficulty in assessing situations: denial of illness.
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February 3rd, 2010
Alcoholism is a dependency characteristics of addiction to alcohol. The main cause of alcohol addiction is caused by the psychosocial influence in the social environment in which the person lives. Alcoholism is characterized by the need to drink alcoholic substances in relatively frequently, as appropriate, and by the loss of control, physical dependence and withdrawal.
Alcoholism is an excessive consumption of alcohol dependence is prolonged it.
Alcoholism is a chronic disease caused by uncontrolled consumption of alcohol, which interferes with physical, mental, social and / or family as well as work responsibilities.
Alcoholism is a serious health hazard that often carries the risk of premature death due to liver-type conditions as cirrhosis of the liver, internal bleeding, alcohol poisoning, liver cancer, accidents or suicide.
Alcoholism is not determined by the amount ingested in a given period: persons affected by this disease may follow very different patterns of behavior, there are both alcoholics who consume daily, such as drinking alcohol weekly, monthly, or without a fixed periodicity. Although the degenerative process tends to shorten the period between each intake.
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January 29th, 2010
When treating alcoholism must ask a series of goals to achieve, and the end of all therapy program seeks to motivate the patient to continue his treatment and once made, remain abstinent, if possible, throughout life.
Must be made to the patient that if you take too much alcohol, decrease this amount will improve their lives and health, and how to improve it?, For improving disturbance of the nervous system or gastrointestinal tract, caused by alcohol intake , sleeping better in both time and quality and ultimately improve your relationship with family, friends or in the
workplace.
To achieve complete recovery of the alcoholic patient will have to raise a number of objectives in the short, medium and long term and to undertake and complete up gradually, so we’ll use all available therapeutic options, both pharmacological and level psychological or psychosocial.
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