ALCOHOL ADDICTIONS

Addiction can be referred as a state at which an individual gets himself involved in a particular habit or practice in such a bulk amount that leads to severe mental and physical pain. American association defines alcoholism as an elementary disease having genetic, psychological and environmental factors signifying its advancement and demonstration.
Alcoholism is described by

• An extended period of constant and abundant use.
• Not able to control the excessive drinking of alcohol once it has begun.
• Physical attachment apparent by extract symptoms when a person stops using it.
• Bearence from drinking alcohol or the desire to use alcohol more to get the similar effects.
• Arising of number of social and legal problems from using alcohol.

EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL ADDICTION

Drinking of alcohol in large quantity can cause severe effects on body, health, marital level, society etc.

EFFECTS ON HEALTH

Alcoholism affects the whole system of the body. It causes variety of problems in terms of health like

• Poor nutrition.
• Memory disorder.
• Blood pressure,
• Liver disease.
• Muscle weakness.
• Heart rhythm disorders.
• Clotting disorders.
• Sugar.
• Cancer.
• Sleep disturbance.
• Anxiety problems.

Moreover about 20% of the adults are in hospital due to alcohol addiction out of which men are in majority as compared to women. People connected with alcoholism develop severe health problems in their body.

EFFECTS ON RELATIONSHIPS

As we look upon to the other perspective alcoholism creates problems on a personal level as well. An individual associated with it suffers in marital relationships like

• domestic violence like abusing husband or wife,
• Mistr eatment of a child physically and emotionally .

EFFECTS ON SOCIETY

Alcohol dependents also face problems in surviving in society like

• Difficulty in searching job.
• Faulty work performance,
• homelessness.
• Legal problem in driving while one is drunk.

IMMIDIATE EFFECTS

Alcoholism leaves a severe effect on brain. The blood brain barriers does not stop the alcohol from entering into the brain due to which alcohol directly gets mix into the blood and interacts with the nerves. As a result you a person suffers with comma, low heart beat and death.

ALCOHOLISM DURING PREGNANCY

Our body evidences that use of alcohol at the time of pregnancy proves

• Negative development of embryo present in a human body.
• abnormality of a child.
• Defect in face appearence like flat face and thin upper lips.

To put it in a nut shell excessive use of alcoholism is very injurious to health that contributes to damage in body organs, difficulty in surviving in society and legal porblems.