Alcohol Abuse Info
This site is formed as an online organization against alcohol abuse. Misuse of alcohol is a huge problem in today's community and is often causing a lot of very serious problems in the family and among family members, friend and colleagues. It is a problem that require serious attention and treatment, sometimes rehabilitation. Otherwise, it may cause a serious trauma and stress among those people who are object of this kind of behavior. Therefore, the alcohol abuse needs to be spotted at the very beginning and treated from the start. Only that way it can be cured and handled correctly.
This site's main purpose is to share valuable information about all kinds of alcohol abuse, alcohol treatment and a lot more topics related to alcohol misuse. A lot of those whose articles are published on this site are psychologists who have a lot of experience in this matter. Also, we always try to hear your thoughts and experiences on this matter, and share them with other visitors of our site. Thank you for your stay, and we hope that we can help you with handling this serious problem.
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Alcohol Addiction
"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism" - Carl Jung (Swiss psychiatrist, student of Freud & founder analytical psychology)
Alcohol, the legally and socially accepted volatile hydroxyl compounds made from hydrocarbons is categorized as depressants for the central nervous system. Consumption of alcohol in any form, though causes a vast array of euphoric effects in the beginning, a prolonged use may even hamper simple, bodily motor tasks and take the consumer to the points of delirium. Though individual effects vary depending on the body weight, gender and metabolism rate, but alcohol addiction can readily be recognized when certain symptoms show up.
It all starts with mild intoxication; what starts off as feelings of warmth, euphoric sensations and flushed skin, often stretches its barriers to the domains of impaired judgment, decreased inhibitions, slowing down of reflexes, double vision, memory loss and an inability to comprehend. But before we proceed further, it's important to know what addiction is.
Defined as an abnormal tolerance to and dependence on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, one can be sure that alcohol addiction has got him/her in its grasp if three of the following signs match:
