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Alcohol abuse
Sometimes occasional drinking can progress over time into alcohol abuse. It is a serious illness that often requires immediate treatment. Alcohol abuse is a serious problem that can not only cause chronic health issues like liver damage, brain damage, but also can totally change a person’s character is more likely to become thoughtless or violent.
The signs of alcohol abuse include alcohol cravings, a loss of control while drinking that leads to the person unable to stop drinking. Another signs of alcohol is tolerance built up to alcohol, physical dependence on alcohol such as sweating, nausea and headache if alcohol is not consumed.
Alcohol abuse is very serious disease that is spreading all over the world. It is a treatable disease but is difficult to cure and it can affect anyone. The effects of alcohol abuse come in many forms, some are emotional, some are physical and some can even be financial. Alcoholic person may not realize that alcohol abuse can cause destruction of emotional well being. It can bring out worst in a person. If person continues to abuse alcohol everyday, he can stand to loose everything that he can hold dear in his life and recovery can become more difficult.
Alcohol abuse treatment depends upon individual’s craving for alcohol and intake. Often Alcohol abuse is hereditary or genetic. Alcohol abuse is treatable but it requires the participation of affected individual, counselors, family members and friends. The most effective treatment is these cases are abstinence through counseling or alternative therapies like meditation. The rehabilitation programs are successful when addict cooperates, takes medicines, high calorie diets and most important avoid meeting with family or friends who drink.
A report Alcohol and Older People: A Review of issues and responses by researchers at the University of the West of England, investigating the implications for care provision for older people with alcohol problems, has identified that health care practitioners and alcohol services are likely to need to move up a gear to cope with….
Binge drinking typically conjures images of college frat boys at wild house parties smashing Lone Star cans on their foreheads. Texas State student Sarah Brown, however, knows a different reality. She’s seen firsthand that men haven’t cornered the market on binge drinking. “There’s a lot of guys who want to drink as much as they….
Addiction is defined as the recurring physical or the psychological dependency of an individual on a chemical substance which can lead to harmful consequences and the people who are under such addiction are popularly known as addicted. The cause of addiction can be many, but the main reason behind a person getting addicted is….
When does a glass or two at the end of the day spill over into high-functioning alcoholism? After work every day you either go to the pub or return home to crack open a bottle of wine. Twice a week you might drink so much alcohol that you suffer memory loss. You spend much of….
Drugs can be defined as chemical substances that can have a therapeutic or non- therapeutic effect on the body of the person who consumes them. Among the population of drug abuser, the rate of teenagers is very high, which is the most concerning part of the drug abuse. Teenagers and drug abuse are closely associated….
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