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Myths about alcohol consumption

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

alcohol consumption

For a long time have been taken as irrefutable truths myths associated with alcohol consumption. Many people have believed and still believe, that alcohol is a stimulant, but it is not. Alcohol, by contrast, is a depressant. While initially people may notice an improvement in their mood, the reality is that their use inevitably leads to depression.

The other big myth is that “alcohol enhances sexual activity.” Here something similar happens in the previous misconception. Although you may feel a greater sexual arousal, the truth is that the indiscriminate consumption of alcoholic drinks ends up causing problems with impotence and even lack of orgasms.

Treatments available for those addicted to alcohol

Certainly, the vast majority of alcohol addicts do not recognize to be, nor do they seek professional help. However, those who receive medical care fail to control the disease greatly. The key is intervention (medical and family support), detoxification (withdrawal monitored and supervised by specialists) and rehabilitation (education about alcohol and its effects to prevent relapse).

In the interest of avoiding such a decline, sometimes prescribed medications such as Acamprosate, which decreases relapse rates, the Antabuse, which produces unpleasant side effects if the person returns to drinking and naltrexone, which reduces the uncontrollable desire for alcohol.

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Alcohol consumption and its consequences

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Alcohol consumption

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), alcoholism is the fifth most important risk factor for premature death and disability:
* Reduces life expectancy by 12 years.
* It is responsible for at least 200,000 deaths annually.
* Is involved in half of all deaths from motor vehicle accidents.
* It is the fourth leading cause of suicides.
* It is related to more than 65% of the murders.
Y * is considered the main health problem in developed countries.

Diseases associated with alcohol addiction
The cerebrum and cerebellum are the primary organs affected by alcohol. The first damage usually cause hallucinations, dementia and delirium tremens, which can be fatal. The damage in the second, meanwhile, tend to cause loss of coordination, vertical and memory.

The liver, for its part, is the organ most affected is responsible for metabolizing the alcohol in 90%. Fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis and liver cirrhosis, are among the ailments caused by harmful habit.

But not just the brain and liver are affected by alcoholism: the stomach, pancreas, kidneys, heart, and to the testes and ovaries, may also be harmed.
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Alcohol and Sexuality

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Alcohol and Sexuality

Alcohol can be one source of pleasure, but consumed in excess have devastating effects.

Drinking alcohol in moderate amounts can promote relaxation, reduce anxiety and inhibitions, and even increase confidence in ourselves. That is, its effects seem to us to overcome many problems. Therefore, is very present at the time of social relations.

But if alcohol consumption is excessive, also paid an important bill: the hangover is the result of an agency that has been seriously damaged and, if repeated often, the damage will be irreversible. For example, in sexual terms, although the alcohol increases the desire, is an inhibitor of sexual response, altering their normal functioning.

How excess alcohol affects men
Alcohol tends to inhibit erections. Many young people have their first sexual intercourse after drinking a large amount of alcohol, which normally produce them with erection problems and they create enormous suffering, to attribute failure to their own personal characteristics rather than the effects of drink. The result is often a psychological erectile dysfunction by the fear of further failures.

According Walji and Kingston, has shown that even not too high quantities of alcohol, but continuously ingested, can affect the reproductive system, as the male hormone testosterone is eliminated more rapidly and occurs in smaller quantities, so the drinker will therefore diminished sex drive as the production of sperm.

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Alcohol Treatment: Psychotherapy

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

Psychotherapy

1 .- Behavioral treatments.
This type of alcohol therapy believe that alcohol consumption is based on learned behavior, with a number of causes which prompted its inception and a series of consequences that perpetuate consumption. This behavior must be changed by acting on the individual who is the main goal of therapy and should be supported at all times to avoid situations or places of consumption and with the complicity of relatives or friends who support you in your task.

Unfortunately though it is assumed that fast recovery is achieved, the danger of relapse is high, so that the patient is trained in various techniques such as relaxation, social situations and managing training programs assertive behavior, not to relapse again on ingestion.

2 .- Psychotherapy group
Many times the support of others motivates us and increases our power to ensure achieving specific objectives, this is based on this type of psychotherapy. So we are increasing our relationships, we motivate and note any defects that we have.

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Abstinence and Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome in Alcoholism

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

In contemporary society, recreational alcohol consumption has spread to 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 consequences for the health of the addict and to his family and social environment. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), between 40 and 60 percent of deaths from injuries in Europe are related to alcohol consumption (alcoholism).

Addiction to alcohol, but is still considered wrong as a matter of lack of will or character, it is a disease entity that escapes the control of the patient and requires treatment to stop drinking and binge substance. The treatment of alcohol, under this view, faces major obstacles to the recovery of the patient withdrawal.

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Alcohol? Little is good for the heart patient

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

ROME – One or two glasses of wine a day are good even to a bad heart. The important thing is to drink in moderation. A search of the Catholic University of Campobasso, published in the United States, demonstrates that the beneficial effects of moderate alcohol consumption and regular alcohol are also valid in people who have been affected by stroke or other cardiovascular disease was an unresolved issue in medicine. (more…)

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The More Alcohol Make Your Brain Shrinks

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

the more alcohol make your brain shrinks

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 .

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Alcohol And Minors

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

alcohol and minorsThe sale of alcoholic beverages to minors is not only punishable by law but is also extremely harmful to the health of young people who consume it. The consumption of alcoholic beverages by persons under 21 years is related to injury and risky behavior. Teenagers who drink alcohol are also at risk of suffering a long list of injuries and possible lifetime alcoholism.

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.

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Alcohol In Society

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

alcohol in society
Information about alcohol in antiquity dating back over three thousand years A. C. The fermentation of juice and beans was a common activity to achieve strong and liquid alcohol, enjoyable for the drunken state that carried them. For gold, the process of distillation was conducted to IX D. C. thus appearing of the great variety of liquors that are known today.

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.

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