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Effects of Long-Term Alcohol

Monday, February 15th, 2010

effects of long term alcohol

We’ve talked a lot about alcohol health in this blog, to say, in short, it is a substance harmful to our body. Today, we will devote a new chapter to know what are the effects of alcohol long term. But as we always say: better safe than sorry.


Alcohol consumption is a social problem that engages younger every day, and worse, increasingly at a younger age. Actually, I think that we are not fully aware of the risk posed by consuming alcohol, as we see it as a normal thing, but it is not, alcohol has risks may be greater still in the long term. Consume in excess can cause social problems, family and even work.

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Alcoholism and Apoplexy

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

alcoholism and apoplexyStroke is defined as the sudden attack (poplexia /, blow, attack). Typically refers to fainting caused by a stroke or brain hemorrhage, and is therefore a stroke, the smallest vessels of the brain. According to the WHO, is the third leading cause of death after heart attack and cancer.

The causes must be sought in a clot, or a small clot that blocks the movement of a blood vessel in the brain. Moreover, there may be a weakness of the vessels, and then excess tension causes bleeding. When the blockage is small does not occur more than a temporary crisis. A little slight facial paralysis or loss of movement of the word. But then restores irrigation, and nothing happens. Other times, the area is greater and the effects are permanent. And finally might happen, the emergence of a cerebral hemorrhage, the outcome can be fatal.

Stroke is what happens when the blood supply to the brain is interrupted. This kills the cells in the brain and can result in permanent disability (both physical andmental) and may even lead to death.

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Health is Finalizing a Plan to Reduce Alcohol Consumption in Young

Friday, February 12th, 2010

health is finalizing a paln to reduce alcohol consumption in young

Health is finalizing, in coordination with the autonomous communities, a plan to prevent alcohol consumption among minors before the rise of binge drinking during the weekend and low perception people have of the risk of consuming the substance.

As explained by the Minister for Health and Social Policy, Trinidad Jimenez, although alcohol consumption has stabilized, minors who drink do so more intensively for several days, especially during weekends, “which means a serious risk to their health. ”

The proportion of students who say they have given a “binge” of alcohol over four days in the last month has increased nearly six points since 2006, says Health but has been interrupted the upward trend in the prevalence of other substances, reducing the consumption of cocaine, ecstasy, amphetamines and hallucinogens.

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Drowning In A Glass of Alcohol

Friday, February 12th, 2010

The answers are never in the bottom of a glass: alcohol is a vice, and only professionals can help you. Here, everything you need to know to be able to stop it drown our sorrows, so you know, they always float: the drowning you.

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What requirements must comply with a patient to be diagnosed as “alcoholic”?

Basically, according to doctors and psychologists to have “alcohol problems” when he continues to drink despite alcohol is interfering negatively on their social life in their working lives, their mental health, their health physics and general habits.

Is alcoholism or alcohol addiction is a disease?

Indeed, alcohol dependence and any other substance is a serious problem affecting the health of the person suffering in the broadest sense of the word. The term disease has a spirit behind his epistemology and the alcoholic is a person who can certainly be regarded as ill.

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Abstinence Syndrome

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

abstinence syndrome

The recreational use of alcohol has spread through all areas of society and is accepted in many cultures as an inclusive and festive custom. But with the increase of this consumption has also emerged a complex public health problem: dependence and addiction to alcohol (alcoholism), a disease with serious health consequences of the addict and to his family and social environment.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), between 40 and 60 per cent of deaths from injuries in Europe are related to alcohol (alcoholism).

Addiction to alcohol, although still considered wrong as a matter of lack of will or character, is a disease entity that escapes the control of the patient and requires treatment to stop drinking and compulsive consumption of this substance.

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Consequences of Alcohol Abuse

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

consequences of Alcohol Abuse

About 200,000 deaths a year can be fully or partially attributed to drinking. Alcoholism can kill in many different ways. In total, reduces life expectancy by 10 to 12 years. The earlier a person begins to drink large amounts of alcohol to a large extent, the better your prospects for developing serious illness later.

In addition to causing numerous physical and mental damage in the alcoholic, alcoholism is a problem of social type. The alcoholic is a person who does not perform at work so just losing it and becomes part of the large group of homeless alcoholics anonymous, unfortunately, no home and no job.

It is especially rejected by others for being annoying and careless about their grooming and personal hygiene and do not show a consistent and reasonable dialogue. Many alcoholics end up committing crimes and end up in jail. If young people leave to attend to their studies or is evicted from the center.

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Alcohol Detoxification

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

alcohol detoxificationAs noted above, symptoms of abstinence from alcohol are a fundamental obstacle for the treatment of alcohol detoxification. Stop drinking alcohol because it is not sufficient to eliminate serious disturbances in this substance produces neuronal receptors.

Furthermore, the medication that is commonly used in alcohol detoxification treatments do not restore the damaged brain areas, with the added risk of masking the symptoms.

Once in the brain, drugs and alcohol affect chemicals called neurotransmitters. These are chemicals in the brain that control the flow of information between neurons or brain cells, forming synapses, while altering the mood and feelings of people.

Specifically, alcohol is a depressant of the central nervous system. It works in multiple areas, including the reticular formation, spinal cord, cerebral cortex and cerebellum, among many other neurotransmitter systems.

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Alcoholism Symptoms

Monday, February 8th, 2010

alcoholism symptomsWe 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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Who Become Alcoholics

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

who become alcoholics

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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Effects of Alcohol

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

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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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