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Health is Finalizing a Plan to Reduce Alcohol Consumption in Young

Friday, February 12th, 2010

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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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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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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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Alcoholism

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

alcoholismAlcoholism 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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