‘Alcoholics’

How to get to addiction

Monday, July 5th, 2010

alcohol addictions

Generally, alcohol addictions begin safely. There are people for whom life becomes boring and not find a way to cheer for a natural way. Likewise, those who suffer from antisocial personality disorder are more likely to move from being simply drinkers become alcoholics. That is, take refuge in drink as a way to escape reality.

And although most people achieve a better life through intellectual stimulation, to converse with others, reading, listening to music or go to the movies or the theater, unfortunately, a certain percentage are looking to improve their lives, wrongly through alcohol or other drugs.

In general in our society it is customary to identify alcohol with fun and thought that a party is not fun if you do not drink much, an idea that the media is responsible for promoting a continuous parade of pleasure provided by the alcohol. And so, the success of any event is inconceivable without wine. However, we must never forget that alcohol is a drug and is toxic until proven otherwise.

However, the good news is that the human body is better able to enjoy life without taking any type of drug. We have an almost unlimited range of activities that can have fun and be happy, but healthy.

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Alcohol Behavior

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

The damage caused by alcohol in the workplace are not always apparent to the naked eye. The alcoholic is a sick often hidden and concealed. His serious behavior disorders are not usually attributed to alcohol, until recently have been applied in industry discipline. This attitude stems from inaccurate and incomplete knowledge of the problem. Cause misunderstandings with his attitude and undermines the morale of his comrades.

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Diagnosis Of Alcoholism

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

AlcoholismeOften the first signs of alcoholism are the unpleasant physical responses to withdrawal that occur during even brief periods of abstinence. Even with withdrawal symptoms, however, people with alcoholism often deny the problem, allowing colleagues, friends, or family members recognize symptoms and take the first steps towards treatment.

Alcoholism can develop insidiously, often no clear line between problem drinking and alcoholism. Sometimes people experience long-term depression or anxiety, insomnia, chronic pain, personal or work stress that lead to alcohol for relief, but often no extraordinary event has occurred that could explain the problem of drinking alcohol. People who are alcoholics have little or no control over the amount they drink or the duration or frequency of drinking alcohol. (more…)

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Criteria For Drug And Alcohol Abuse

Monday, March 8th, 2010

A. A maladaptive pattern of drug use brings a clinically significant impairment or distress, as manifested by one (or more) of the following, for a period of 12 months:
1. Recurrent substance use, leading to breaches of obligations at work, school or home (e.g., Repeated absences or poor work performance related to substance use; absences, suspensions, or expulsions from school related substance, neglect, or debentures of the house) (more…)

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Alcoholism Treatment

Friday, February 26th, 2010

alcoholism treatment

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.

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Hereditary Alcoholism

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

hereditary alcoholism

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, AndalucĂ­a 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.

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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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