What are the manifestations of alcohol addiction?
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Alcohol addiction is also known as alcohol dependence. Drinking behavior is very common in people's daily life. Only 5% of adults do not drink alcohol in their whole life. In addition to complete abstinence, drinkers of any degree are considered to be potential groups of alcohol dependence. According to the report of who in 2004, there are 2 billion drinkers in the world, and it is estimated that 140 million of them are alcohol dependent. Let's share my experience with you.
What are the manifestations of alcohol addiction?
The average amount of alcohol consumed by drinkers for a long time has exceeded the recognized safety limit, and has caused mental and physical health damage, or has caused adverse effects on family, work and others due to drinking, and is often complained or criticized by others due to drinking, resulting in a variety of adverse consequences, such as punishment for drunk driving, marital discord, affecting family responsibility, being late for work Delay, etc.
A kind of special psychological state caused by long-term repeated drinking is the craving for alcohol and the compulsive experience of frequent drinking. Can be continuous or intermittent attacks, stop drinking, physical discomfort, restlessness or limb tremor, nausea, vomiting, sweating and other withdrawal symptoms, restore drinking, such symptoms disappear quickly.
Somatization dependent repeated drinking makes some physiological and biochemical changes in the central nervous system, so that alcohol needs to continue to exist in the body to perform normal functions. When stopping drinking or reducing the amount of drinking leads to the decrease of alcohol concentration in the body, abstinence syndrome will appear. Abstinence symptoms are often anxiety, unhappiness, depression, accompanied by nausea, vomiting, poor appetite, chills, sweating, palpitations, high blood pressure, and sleep disorders, such as nightmares, shallow sleep, difficulty in falling asleep, or tremors, convulsions, etc.
matters needing attention
Alcohol dependence has the biological, psychological and sociological etiological mechanism of replication. In addition to psychological dependence and physical dependence (withdrawal symptoms), it is often accompanied by mental nerve damage and various physical complications. It also seriously damages the individual's psychological, family, professional and social functions. Therefore, we should adopt the comprehensive model of medicine, psychological behavior and social rehabilitation to treat alcohol addiction and its various obstacles, so as to achieve a good prognosis and achieve the goal of complete abstinence.
