Alcoholism as disease and world addiction
(Llusco and Vargas 2013, 1828) explains that "alcoholism is a disease characterized by excessive alcohol consumption". It is an addiction that has affected many people around the world. Being a disease that can cause problems both in your health and in interpersonal relationships, even causing death. The consumer will feel the strong desire to ingest alcohol more and more to feel a pleasant effect again. And when alcohol is reduced or stopped, it comes to physiological changes and the appearance of withdrawal syndrome.
A possible explanation for the consumption of alcoholic beverages could be due to a hereditary factor that causes an alcohol dependence, although this is not decisive. In most homes, parents are consumers of beers that drink it at parties or events. Mostly those parents are those who introduce their children to the drink. Drink has become a custom in homes and we see it so normal that many times it could bring us serious consequences. Since the child would not only drink at home, but also outside of it as at parties, with friends or even at school.
Another reason why children can drink apart from the influence of parents, would be that at home there is a lack of attention in the child. Love at home becomes a child’s need in the absence of her parents, resulting in an unfashed raising and lack of education about moderate alcohol consumption. While alcohol consumption may be due to the absence of parents, it can also be the conflict and discussions between them causing alcoholic beverages such as an escape medium. The problems in the family, abuse and violence causes the child to feel insecure and isolate himself in his environment. When problems continue to increase, more will be the probability that the child begins to consume alcohol.
On the other hand, the society in which there is easy access to alcohol and advertising everywhere as in posters or television that increase the probability of alcohol consumption. Alcohol in society influences both a group of friends and to be excluded from it. Friends who consume alcohol press you so you drink like them. Apart from consuming friends, weddings, baptisms, birthdays or other celebrations also influence different drinks that contain alcohol either by custom, tradition or is simply a way to celebrate the reason for the party thus influencing the Progressive alcohol consumption. Arriving a point where you get used to this state of pleasure and you can’t leave its consumption.
A person who is an alcoholic in the future develops a series of diseases due to their continuous consumption. In principle drinking makes them feel good, but in the long term you can affect your mood generating depression. In addition, they cause lack of memory and cognitive problems such as dementia. A healthy person can have a more likely to suffer a heart attack if it consumes a lot of alcohol. It can develop fatty liver, because drinking too much alcohol makes the liver saturate and consequently accumulate fat.
Excessive alcohol consumption in people who are managing often result in traffic accidents. It can also be the death of a passerby and even the death of the same driver who goes into a drunk. Drinking in excess makes your movements less coordinated and your reflexes become slow. The person who abuses alcohol in the future will be a violent person. It will cause family conflict that in turn leads to a breakdown of the couple.
In relation to alcoholism in motherhood it causes risks to the fetus. The consumption of alcoholic beverages hurts the brain and shows alterations in development, be his face and in his head. The use of alcohol in pregnancy can cause serious problems such as: cardiovascular effects, congenital malformations, mental retardation, facial alterations and postnatal and intrauterine growth delay (CIUR). (Rodríguez 2018, 160) points out that "Fetal Alcoholism Syndrome is the most serious consequence". Because the syndrome produces problems in the body and brain of the baby during pregnancy, and the syndrome does not have a cure and is present for the child’s life.
It is known that the effects of drinking excessively alcohol are very serious; Therefore, we must take measures to reduce the probability of consumption. In the personal relationships that one can have together with co -workers and non -consumers not to have the need to drink to be part of the group. So also have a good relationship and communication with parents and brothers. Have a good free time planning that you have not to procrastine, be clear about what you have to do in the future. Attachment and commitment to something that interests you and motivates to overcome every day.
A warm atmosphere in the family, where there are emotional ties between parents and children, where there is good communication and trust to talk about the subject and its consequences. Also talk about the friendships I may have and guide him so that they do not carry it on the bad way. Pass family quality time, support the child in their studies to strive and achieve her goals, and if any course is able to endure frustration. In the school encourage teamwork so that you do not feel excluded from the group. Establish relationship between parents and school to follow the performance of the child both personal and academically.
And in society, more strict laws for alcohol consumption must. In restaurants they must sell a limited number of liquor, wine and beers thus avoiding excessive consumption. It must also impose a hard hand with those people who recklessly handle in a drunk state so that they do not do it again and avoid accidents and deaths of other people. The schools or organisms that carry out festive activities with young people there are no alcohol. Also also reduce alcohol consumption in work center activities.
All these measures reduce the probability of alcohol consumption in the person. However, this does not ensure that the person will not be alcoholic. But if this will happen and a relative becomes addicted to alcohol, there is still a solution for this problem. Many of these people need a help from specialists, doctors and psychologists, through treatment. Treatments can be: pharmacological or group therapy. Pharmacological treatment will consist of stopping drinking. The patient will be provided with medications to help him reduce the symptoms of the withdrawal syndrome, which occurs 24 hours after stop drinking. The symptoms of withdrawal syndrome can be: tremor in hands and tongue, sweating, tachycardia, nausea, irritability, insomnia, restlessness and visual hallucinations. And treatment through therapy consists of conversations or talks between the therapist and the patient about alcoholism. In group therapies (Corporation for Biological Research 2010) “The best known is the group of alcoholics anonymous (AA) that is very useful worldwide in alcohol management”. In this group, experiences are shared and they support each other so they no longer fall on alcoholic beverages.
In conclusion, the consumption of alcoholic beverages is not bad as long as the intake of these is controlled. Excessively consuming alcohol and not being able to stop drinking it should already be considered a problem for both the person who drinks him and his family. Excessive alcohol consumption has been guilty of many deaths and diseases, it has also been the cause of family separations and abuse of children. Therefore, realizing in time is essential to receive external help through treatment. Drinking in meetings or parties is not entirely bad, but we must always be responsible to avoid falling into the drink preventing excessively and irresponsibly.
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