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Alcohol Treatment
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Alcoholism-- What Should I Know About It?
By Geoff Hugh, Thu Dec 8th
What is alcoholism? Alcoholism is a disease that affects the part of the brain thatcontrols your feelings, the way you make decisions, and the wayyou act. People with alcoholism cannot
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How To Break The Shackles Of Alcoholism With Alcohol
By Paul Johnson, Thu Dec 8th
Alcohol rehabilitation means bringing back people from theinfluence of alcoholism or "alcohol dependence." You will besaid to be in a condition of alcoholism, if you display any ormore of the
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Alcoholism Marriage: Dealing With Shocking Alcoholism Marriage Issues
By JimC
If you have found yourself dealing with alcoholism marriage issues and problems, you may be wondering where you can turn to for help, guidance and assistance. You may be married
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Alcoholism Symptoms: 6 Common Signs Exposed!
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Alcoholism refers to the constant use of alcohol. Alcoholism is a disease which grows gradually and leaves serious effects on the mind and body. The effects of alcoholism
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A Simple Step You Can Take To Quit Alcohol
By Ras Reed
If you or a loved one have not had success during earlier attempt to terminate drinking alcohol, here is a simple step you can take to quit alcoholism. Many people go into drinking several bottles of
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Alcoholism Facts - Facts Of Alcoholism You Should Know
By David Buster -
Alcoholism facts can help one better understand the extent of alcoholism and alcoholism warning signs. One of the alcoholism facts is that alcoholism is a type of drug addiction that can be both
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Is
Alcohol Hurting Your Life?
Is
your life or the life of someone you love
being torn apart as a result of alcohol abuse? Alcohols
effects can be devastating to both the person suffering the problem as
well as friends
and
family.
Alcohols
cost to us as a society is
difficult to measure, sure there are the direct costs, loss of
productivity and
accidents caused while under it influence. Though the most insidious
price is
the loss of opportunity that it creates, and the damaging effect it has
on
human lives.
The extent
of alcoholism
and addiction in
the world is horrific. Substance abuse is one of the major health
problems we
face today. Over a lifetime, 27% of the population will suffer from a
substance
abuse disorder, 25% of Americans will die of some form of substance
abuse. Over
90% of alcoholics die of their disease, approximately 26 years earlier
than
their normal life expectancy.
More
than
40%
of those who start drinking
at age 14 (or younger) are likely to become alcoholics. In 1998 alone,
the cost
of alcohol abuse was over 185 billion dollars. Many years of alcohol
and drug
use studies find that 80% of high school seniors
have tried alcohol and
32%
have gotten drunk in the last thirty days.
Heart
Disease, Cancer & Stroke
Heavy
drinking contributes to illnesses in
each of the top three causes of death: heart disease, cancer and
stroke.
Yet,
even now in many sections of our community alcoholism and substance
abuse are
still frowned upon. People suffering from these terrible afflictions
are seen
as failures, someone of dubious character. Truth is most of these
people are no
different from you or me.
Alcohol
is
an Insidious Drug
It
can can lure you in little by little. Its effects help us feel better,
often happier
more
confident while
all the while a dependence can start to
take hold.
There
is no alcoholic born who did not at
some stage think that they could control their drinking habit.
“I can
stop any
time I want to”,
it is just that time never seems to arrive. “I will
quit
tomorrow”...
It
is only
when the human cost starts to
mount up, and the realisation (for some) starts to set in that this
drinking
problem is now in control of their lives and hurting them an those
people
they love around them.
Light
at the End of thr Tunnel
Classical
alcoholism takes about 15 years
to develop, but it can happen much quicker in adolescents and young
adults.
With all of this bad news though there is light at the end of the
tunnel, we
have strong evidence that treatment of alcoholism does work.
We
have to
remember there problem of
alcoholism is a physical one, not so much different from any of us who
may
suffer from multiple sclerosis or diabetes. It can be controlled and
its damage
can be reversed.
For
every
dollar spent on alcohol and drug
recovery programs, the economy saves seven dollars in health care and
other
related costs to society. Most patients who work with the recovery
programs
stay clean and stay sober.
Contained
in this Awareness Guide there are a
multitude of articles and reports written
especially to give you the latest information
available.
The team at awareness-guide.com hope you will find all the answers you
are looking for.
We strive to provide only quality articles, so if
there is a specific topic related to alcoholism that you would
like us to cover, please contact us at any time.
And
again, thank you to those contributing daily to
our alcoholism
website.
TheTeam@awareness-guide.com
Thanks
For Stopping by...
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