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Alcoholism Symptoms

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

The more he gets into intellectual capacity and personality of the individual, the disease will progress more, the closer the periods of drunkenness and more intensified and expanded the problems. All this for camouflage and protection. Symptoms usually occur and can be used to make a social diagnosis of alcoholism include:

  • Delayed frequent arrival to work.
  • Frequent absence day after party or at least slow, slurred and irregular work. • frequent disappearances post without prior justification.
  • Small absences for minor illnesses: Colds, flu, or minor accidents occurred with regularity at work, outside, on the road.
  • Progressive change in attitude of the subject hitherto regarded as a good worker, discussions, reviews, small mistakes which seeks to justify, small accidents which offers or other material liable.
  • Marked variations in mood, anger, loss of interest in the job.
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Treating Alcoholism

Monday, May 10th, 2010

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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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