Alcoholism

Alcoholism, also known as alcohol dependence, addiction disorder is off. characterized by compulsive, uncontrolled alcohol despite the negative effects of drinking health, relationships and social status. Like other drug addictions, alcoholism is defined as treatable medical illness. The term alcoholis a term widely used first created in 1849 by Magnus Huss, but the drug has been replaced by the term alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence 1980 DSM III. Similarly, in 1979 the World Health Organization Expert Committee unpopular use of alcoholismas a separate diagnosis, but the category alcohol dependence syndrome, 19 and 20, alcohol dependence was called dipsomania before the term alcoholis which it replaces.

biological mechanisms underlying alcoholism are uncertain, however, risk factors include the social environment, stress, mental health, genetic predisposition, age, ethnicity and gender. Long-term alcohol abuse causes physiological changes in the brain, such as tolerance and physical dependence. These changes in brain chemistry maintains an alcoholic, a compulsive inability to stop drinking and lead to symptoms of alcohol withdrawal after cessation of alcohol consumption. Alcohol damages nearly every organ in the body, including the brain, because the cumulative toxic effects of chronic alcohol abuse, alcohol can cause a variety of medical and psychiatric disorders. Alcoholism has profound social consequences for alcoholics and people in their lives.

Alcoholism is the cyclic presence of tolerance, abstinence and excessive use of alcohol, the drinker inability to control the compulsive use of alcohol despite awareness of his injury to his health, said the person may be an alcoholic. screening questionnaire is a method of detecting patterns of harmful drinking, including alcoholism. alcohol detoxification is carried out to eliminate the alcohol alcoholic drink, usually with anti-tolerance, such as benzodiazepines to manage withdrawal symptoms post-medical care such as group therapy or self-help groups often necessary to maintain abstinence from alcohol. Often, alcoholics are addicted to other drugs, mostly benzodiazepines, which may require medical treatment of alcoholic women are more sensitive to the harmful effects of alcohol on mental health physics, and brain, and increased stigma social relationship with a man, being an alcoholic.

Classification and terminology

Misuse, problem use, abuse and heavy use concerns the misuse of alcohol can cause physical harm, social or legal drinker. Moderate consumption is defined in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans that no more than two drinks per day for men and no more than one drink per day for women

The term alcohol is commonly used but poorly defined. The WHO defines alcoholism as a prolonged period of use and variable meaning and the term has been disadvantaged by a committee of experts from WHO 1979. Big Book (Alcoholics Anonymous) that when a person is an alcoholic, they are always an alcoholic, but does not define what is meant by the term alcoholi in this context. In 1960, Bill W. said: “We have never called alcoholism a disease because, technically speaking, it is not a disease entity. For example, there is no such thing as heart disease. Instead there are many separate heart ailments, or combinations of them. It is something like that with alcoholism. Therefore we did not wish to get in wrong with the medical profession by pronouncing alcoholism a disease entity. Therefore we always called it an illness, or a malady -- a far safer term for us to use.”