‘Alcoholism’

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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Juvenile Alcoholism

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

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More than 1,200 pupils aged between 12 and 18 years of age from four secondary schools in Marbella, participate in the educational program that will conduct the Alcohol and Society Foundation with the aim of informing them about the effects of abuse of alcohol. According to data handled by the Foundation, 60% of young people between 12 and 18 consume alcohol.

In Marbella, the aforementioned foundation, non-profit, will launch its program to over one thousand students but until next February will keep open the registration period for schools so soon is expected to permit increased number beneficiaries.

As for the content of the campaign developed by the non-profit Foundation has three free programs: Adolescence and Alcohol, Alcohol and faces Parent School.

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Vaccine Alcoholism

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

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U.S. scientists say that a simple vaccine could be alcoholism. It would also be effective against drug.

It was recently released a study that has as its protagonists to researchers at the University of San Francisco, California.

Ever tried a shot, with success in mice, which promises to end the evil of alcoholism. The substance applied, scientists explain, is a growth factor essential for the formation of kidney and motor neurons.

Known as GDNF, the substance may be related to the part of the brain that is affected by the vice of alcohol and other drugs such as cocaine or morphine.

Specialists in mice injected this fluid in the brain and noticed that the intake of alcohol decreased. The animals who had been drunk and not drink again the same way after application.

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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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Hereditary Alcoholism

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

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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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Alcohol In Society

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

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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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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.


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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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