Is Your Alcohol Addiction Making You Sick?

Author: Pablo
 

The national news is full of of pre-teens bumming cigarettes at nine years old and quickly becoming hooked and the habit continues on into adulthood. The same is true for alcohol, youngsters trying their first drink at thirteen years of age and the habit stays with them for the long haul . Nobody starts off wanting to be a drug addict or an alcoholic. But this things happen! More and more people are succumbing to alcoholism everyday. The side effect of alcohol consumption can be numerous and can become the hardest thing that you ever have to fight in your life.

Someone who is quiet by nature may want to enjoy self by consuming some alcohol refreshment. The liberation from shyness and apprehension and the feeling of freedom from personal emotions often comes with the occasional and often seen lack of judgment that causes him to kiss and hug everyone at the event and that can be called as a merry drunk. Interestingly the normally irate person who would always try to keep his anger under wrap would occasionally drop that control when drunk and would become furious and sometimes tumultuous. Alcohol works like a depressant on the brain and it influences the area that controls inhibition and judgment which makes the consumer more vulnerable emotionally and physically.

Liquor which is normally relished as a social beverage, can be habit forming. The two or three drinks a week can easily become a daily thing and can leave it marks on the financial condition, the family and the health of the drinker. Pretty soon one cannot go without a drink and that can be quite expensive on the budget not to mention the strain that it puts on the family. Booze consumption will eventually have something to say about your sleep which can also have an outcome on your productivity the next day.

What to say about obsession? Not only is alcohol getting you into its tight web it can also make the drinker absorbed with drinking. The one and only thing on the drinker's mind is to be alone with his drink. Visualize yourself being at an important meeting at work and finding ways to leave ahead of everybody else just to make it before the alcohol shop closes for the day. The obsession with booze can become so exigent that the person with a booze dependency will start to have head pain or other kind of craving symptoms if he doesn't have his fix. The other side of alcohol addiction is refusal to accept the facts. The devil with a drinking problem can be drinking at all time during the day, even early before breakfast and will come up with failed attempts for his unacceptable behavior. Some booze heads will carry a flat bottle in their jacket pockets.

The side-effect of booze on the body. Long term alcohol abuse has been known to be the source of many problems such as heart disease, stroke and high blood pressure to name a few. Many alcohol addicts have suffered and died from liver failure or Cirrhosis of the liver. The time to stop indulging in booze is now before it's too late!
 

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