 Currently
in the United States nearly 14 million people abuse
alcohol or have an alcohol addiction. That means
that nearly 1 in every 13 adults abuses alcohol
or is addicted to alcohol. Alcoholism is when an
individual is unable to control their need of alcohol.
A person with an alcohol addiction will go to the
extent of hiding their alcohol addiction, and using
any mean necessary to acquire and drink alcohol.
A person with an alcohol dependency feels a need
for alcohol from the time that they wake up till
to time they go to bed. Once a person with an alcohol
addiction starts drinking alcohol, they are unable
to control or stop drinking alcohol. The alcohol
addiction quickly consumes them and their life.
Almost 40% of divorced or separated woman lived
with, or were married to a person that abused alcohol
or had an alcohol dependency problem. Someone that
suffers from alcoholism will have a life that is
full of problems and heartache. Alcoholism can lead
to many problems such as the loss of employment
due to the inability to work, problems with the
law, such as disorderly conduct, driving under the
influence (DUI), or driving while intoxicated (DWI).
When a person is an alcoholic, or suffers from alcohol
abuse they not only affect themselves, but they
also affect those around them. Having an alcohol
abuse problem, or being an alcoholic can lead to
family problems such as; separation, divorce and
disownment. Alcoholism and alcohol abuse can also
cause problems between parents and their children.
Alcoholics and people that abuse alcohol can loose
the right of visitation with their children or the
children may simply not want to be around the alcoholic
or alcohol abuser. Alcohol can also cause financial
stress at home due to the alcohol abuser always
having a need to purchase alcohol.
The more an alcohol abuser drinks, the more they
build up a tolerance to the consumption of alcohol.
When a person begins to build up a tolerance to
alcohol, this means that the brain is adapting to
alcohol being in their body. This makes it so they
have to consume more alcohol to get the same ‘buzz’.
Once a person becomes sober or stops drinking, they
begin to accrue withdrawal symptoms such as nausea,
sweating, shaking, hallucinations and depression.
Some of the long term effects from abusing alcohol
are weight gain, depressed immune system and heart
or respiratory failure.
Alcohol treatment and becoming sober from alcohol
is not an easy process. But with alcohol treatment
and alcohol rehabilitation help at Center
for Recovery you can once again have a sober,
alcohol free life.
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