A group of scientists has revealed that the more alcohol a person consumes, the more your brain shrinks. Their study contrasts with other reports have shown that moderate consumption of alcohol itself can be good for the heart.

The long-lived teetotalers had the least volume loss cerebra lLos Researchers led by Carol Ann Paul of Wellesley College in Massachusetts wanted to know whether alcohol also protected against the inevitable loss of brain volume that people experience as birthdays. But they found that it is not.

In fact, long-lived teetotalers had the least loss of brain volume, while ex-drinkers, moderate consumers of alcohol and those taking large amounts of alcohol experienced more progressive brain reduction, as they wrote in the journal Archives of Neurology .

The trend was most pronounced in women than in men. This could be due to increased female sensitivity to alcohol is effects and their smaller size on average compared with men, researchers said.

He sought a protective effect in people who drank one to seven drinks per week “We know that people who drink heavily have a deterioration in brain volume. What we were looking for was a protective effect in people who drank one to seven drinks per week, “said Paul. “My expectation was that (alcohol) was (protective). And it turned out well,” said the study director, School of Public Health at Boston University.

The results were based on data from 1839 American adults between 33 and 88 years who reported their alcohol consumption and underwent MRIs to check their brain volume.

Treatments for alcoholism include detoxification programs conducted by medical institutions. This may involve the patient’s stay for an indefinite period (perhaps several weeks), specialized hospital wards where can the use of certain drugs to avoid withdrawal symptoms of alcoholism.

After the period of detoxification (alcohol detoxification), the patient may be subjected to various methods of group therapy or psychotherapy to treat psychological problems of substance that may have to take the patient to dependence.

Furthermore, it can build the program with therapies that encourage the patient to repel the alcohol with drugs like Disulfiram, which causes sudden and severe hangovers ever consumed alcohol. Nutrition therapy is another treatment.

Many alcoholics syndrome have insulin resistance, a metabolic disorder due to which the body does not properly regulate the sugar supply causing unstable blood circulation. Although this disorder is treatable with a hypoglycemic diet, this can affect their behavior and mood. These symptoms are side effects often seen in alcoholics undergoing detoxification under treatment. The metabolic aspects of alcoholism often overlooked resulting in treatments of dubious results.

In the 1990s, the self-help groups consultations were gaining notoriety for their accomplishments, as has been the movement of Alcoholics Anonymous.

In Marbella, the aforementioned foundation, non-profit, will launch its program to over one thousand students but until next February will keep open the registration period for schools so soon is expected to permit increased number beneficiaries.

As for the content of the campaign developed by the non-profit Foundation has three free programs: Adolescence and Alcohol, Alcohol and faces Parent School.

The youth will participate in two talks theoretical and practical course for teachers conducted via Internet first is geared to students, who receive two theoretical-practical lectures by a specialist in this field in the second, a monitor information for teachers subsequently conducted an Internet course and the latest education proposal is designed for parents to inform them and provide appropriate tools for education, explained the responsibility for it, Nuria Salvador.

He explained that the development of such initiatives has a threefold objective: “Delaying the age at onset in consumption, reduce the number of teens who use and decrease the amount they have already started drinking.”

The very youth and sports council of Marbella, Angel Mora, welcomed the Foundation’s work, highlighting the need to carry out this type of initiative “to educate youth about the risks of alcohol consumption early age. And promote to “opt for a moderate consumption if they choose to drink” once they reach the age of majority.

Since 2001, the Alcohol and Society Foundation is giving its educational offer in Andalucia in which trained a total of 500,000 schoolchildren belonging to 1,100 schools.

U.S. scientists say that a simple vaccine could be alcoholism. It would also be effective against drug.

It was recently released a study that has as its protagonists to researchers at the University of San Francisco, California.

Ever tried a shot, with success in mice, which promises to end the evil of alcoholism. The substance applied, scientists explain, is a growth factor essential for the formation of kidney and motor neurons.

Known as GDNF, the substance may be related to the part of the brain that is affected by the vice of alcohol and other drugs such as cocaine or morphine.

Specialists in mice injected this fluid in the brain and noticed that the intake of alcohol decreased. The animals who had been drunk and not drink again the same way after application.

Recently, Chilean scientists developed a vaccine against the disease. This is a shot that inhibits the production of the enzyme that degrades the major component of alcohol.

“These findings are highly interesting and have been successfully tested in rats. Is expected to soon be able to verify your benefits in humans alcoholics to achieve an effective disease fighter and so far, no treatment is really effective, “said Chilean scientist Juan Bautista Cordoba Ramos.

“This injection has been tested in rats and genetically alcohol consumption decreased by 50 percent,” he concludes.

If treatment thrives in humans have found the solution to a serious problem, because this defect may increase the risk of some cancers.

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Research on this subject indicate that the human brain continues to develop until approximately early twenties and a developing brain exposed to alcohol may suffer lasting effects on intellectual capabilities and may increase the chances of alcohol addiction. Every year approximately 5,000 children and young people under 21 years as a result of alcohol under the legal age allowed – due to vehicular accidents, homicides and suicides. Dangers associated with alcohol consumption of adolescents age of first use of alcohol affects of alcohol problems that appear later in adulthood.

For each year that will delay the onset of alcohol consumption is reduced by 14 percent the risk of later alcohol dependence.

Driving and drinking alcohol
The major cause of death for people between 15 and 20 years of age is due to auto accidents. Approximately 1,900 people under 21 die each year from car accidents involving alcohol for minors. Young people are more susceptible to a negative effect on driving skills. Drivers between 16 and 20 years are twice as likely to be involved in a fatal car accident that those drivers over 21 who drink alcohol.

Suicide
Alcohol use interacts with conditions such as depression and stress and contributes about 300 cases of adolescent suicides per year. High school students who drink are twice as likely to have seriously attempted suicide, compared with the youth of the same age who do not drink. The minimum legal age for drinking is 21.

How to prevent teens have easy access to alcoholic beverages
The drinking of adolescents are not inevitable. More than 56 percent of high school students do not consume alcohol, which reduces the levels of risk of injury. All adults can play a role in reducing adolescent access to alcohol-related harm and alcohol consumption. Teenagers say it’s easy to get alcohol.

For children, the main sources of alcohol are the social sources, such as family and friends. Parents strongly support the establishment of the legal age of 21 years to consume alcoholic beverages. In a recent nationwide survey, 79 percent of parents said the legal age for drinking should remain the same or increased.

A study by the research group at the University of Granada “Alcoholism and Drug Addiction” has demonstrated the genetic predisposition to develop the “disease of alcoholism”, indicating that the deficiency of endorphin is hereditary.

In a statement, Andalucía Investiga explained that beta-endorphin is a kind of morphine produced by the body in the brain in response to various situations, among which is the pain.

Chronic alcoholics have levels of beta-endorphin very so low, can be considered as “endogenous analgesics” and that inhibit pain transmission, so that scientists from Granada have focused their attention on low levels of beta-endorphins that have the chronic alcoholics.

According to Professor of Medicine and head of the group, Jose Rico Irles, “this low level of alcohol consumption affects the endorphins.

“The risk is because when the brain stops producing beta-endorphins, it becomes accustomed to the presence of surplus and begins to depend increasingly on the external source: alcohol,” he added.

Researchers have assessed these levels in 200 families from the province of Granada, in which at least one chronic alcoholic parents, so that from birth each individual has a predetermined level of beta-endorphins.

However, the children of the study population, aged between six months and ten years, beta-endorphin levels are also lower than those of any person with the same age.

Although alcohol consumption does not affect everyone equally, according to scientists, these differences in endorphin levels make some subjects more sensitive to alcohol and therefore more likely to be dependent.

The snuff is a carcinogen for aerodigestive mucosa of the mouth, larynx and lungs circled that alcohol is a lower risk.

The snuff and alcohol trigger the risk of developing a tumor in the mouth. The snuff is a carcinogen for aerodigestive mucosa of the mouth, larynx and lungs, circled that alcohol is a lower risk, but if you add snuff and alcohol chances of oral cancer increase exponentially, according to Julio Steel Maxillofacial Surgeon and Hospital Gregorio Maranon Hospital in Madrid Chiron.

Oral tumors are increasing among women, probably due to the change in lifestyle.

“Until recently, the typical patient was an older man, smoker, alcoholic … However, in recent years the incidence in women is increasing and they are seeing increasingly younger patients,” said Dr Steel.

The prevalence of oral cancer is about 15.7 cases per hundred thousand men per year and 0 per hundred thousand women per year. Although this type of tumor is not the most prevalent, its impact on social life, aesthetics and functionality of the individual is very important since appearing in a very visible and the important structures which lie.

These tumors are more frequent in the tongue, floor of the mouth and lips. The latter are more prevalent among people highly exposed to the sun, like farmers or sailors.

In the treatment of oral cancer and surgery is indicated, often, radiation therapy and / or chemotherapy. However, the key is prevented by avoiding exposure to carcinogens (alcohol and snuff) and proper maintenance of dentures.

Once the disease appears, it is vital for early diagnosis to surgery mutilation as small as possible.

Since the beginning of the production and manufacture of alcoholic beverages, he predilection of humans to their consumption has different roots. At first instance, the drunken state he carried consumption was one of the main reasons. Disinhibition and the confidence it produces, has helped and continues to do so, the opening of interpersonal relationships.

Anyway, that feature is always linked to the restraint with which it does. Excess derived in most cases, to violence and disease. The inconveniences caused by excessive alcohol consumption, which historically have expressed primarily within the family, then extended to the social environment.

Alcoholism today

Currently, alcohol continues to function in similar ways. Moderate drinking continues to provide states of relaxation and pleasure, while still generating excessive violence and problems. This is why drinkers measured, no effects are risky, while those who do binge, they endanger their health and that of others.

The present framework shows that alcoholism is most highly concentrated adult men. Nevertheless, the percentage of women and young drinkers has increased considerably.

This differentiation is restricted by the states, while the consumption, production and sale, always taking into account the characteristics of each drug and its possible effects.

In this case, the difference between legal and illegal substances, is produced as follows. Among the legal drugs are alcohol, snuff, psychotropic drugs, stimulants, minor and some opium-derived drugs such as methadone, codeine or morphine, in a case of medical use.

Moreover, in illegal drugs are cannabis derivatives such as marijuana or hashish, cocaine, amphetamines, LSD, ecstasy and heroin among others. Also, in many cases, legal drugs are also used medically in a black market trade.

Characteristics of legal drugs

Within the constraints rules on the part of authorities, which correspond to currents of opinion and position on international health conference, the relevant difference, and while obvious, is the penalty for production, consumption and sale of every banned substance.

In cases of the effects and risks that produce drugs, in the case of the distinction between legal and illegal, can not highlight an exact differentiation, for within the legal drugs, lots of variety with negative effects and lethal, as is the alcohol and snuff.

Moreover, there is still legally prescribed drugs that have negative effects on consumers, reaching in some cases of addiction and dependency, as with alcohol and nicotine.

For the biochemical properties of alcohol and for being a social lubricant widespread consumption of this substance can easily result in someone experiencing abuse to emotional and social difficulties. This does not necessarily mean that the person is alcohol dependent. It could be an abuse of alcohol is limited in duration and may disappear or not when these difficulties are overcome. Alcohol abuse, for example, can be given during the adolescent social integration, or as a means of crossing the difficult challenges that often means growing. Examples of this are often on campus or learning centers, where drinking ways students could be considered as alcoholism, however, once students leave the stage in their lives, many of them can leave from alcohol completely or reduce their alcohol consumption significantly without any difficulty. However, many others, can increase their consumption and become alcoholics, which may require treatment in alcohol detox clinics.

So then, we can say that in general, drinkers who have a diagnosis of alcohol abuse only, can be helped with a short speech, which usually involves education about the dangers of binge drinking and alcohol poisoning, while drinkers who developed alcohol dependence generally require outside help to stop drinking. The treatments in alcohol detox clinics provide detoxification, medical treatment and psychotherapy.

Alcohol abuse, therefore, is different from alcohol dependence. Not being addicted, alcohol abusers maintain control over their behavior and can change their drinking following explanations and warnings. However, that’s the risk, but those who abuse alcohol are not necessarily physically dependent on alcohol, its abuse leads to problems such as inability to understand the risks, or lack of interest in the damage that alcohol abuse can cause the consumer or others. Moreover, the fundamental problem is that alcohol abuse leads often to alcohol dependence.

In short, alcohol consumption can be defined as inappropriate (inappropriate) involved alcohol impairment or injury to health, and defined, if during a period of 12 months to meet one or more of the following criteria:

• Drinking in dangerous situations (eg when driving or will drive).

• Drink frequently and excessively.

• Have interpersonal difficulties with family, friends or coworkers because of alcohol.

• Have legal problems related to alcohol intake.

Alcohol abuse occurs, therefore, when continuous drinking in large quantities despite the consumption of alcohol has caused injury or is causing damage or consumer problems, your family or your environment. Among the damage that alcohol abuse are:

• Cirrhosis or other diseases related to alcohol consumption, such as damage to the pancreas, cancer, heart problems or sexual problems. In general, the more you drink, the greater the risk.

• Binge drinking common. These can cause absences from work, or behavior “antisocial” when drinking. And here it should be noted that not all who have problems with alcohol to get drunk come. Many people who have health problems associated with alcohol abuse, such as cirrhosis, drink small amounts of alcohol frequently, but not drunk.

• Spending more money than you can with alcohol.