Alcohol Addiction Stories : Alcohol Addiction and Teens: What went Wrong? Just when you thought that your 15 year old son’s idea of fun on a Friday night is to grab drink milkshakes and popcorn while you are off to a dinner party, think again. Have you tasted their concoction of plain shakes lately? Alcohol Addiction and Teens could sometimes be associated with bread and peanut butter – it is an all time favorite. Alcohol addiction among the young can be traced to different origins that no two people are alike when it comes to the reason why they started drowning themselves in bottles of liquor. The society blames the television for enticing these people to try it. The subliminal messages are very powerful and even though you have made it a point to educate them of the consequences of drinking, your voice goes into one ear and goes out the other. The most difficult influence to curtail is peer pressure. You have gone through the same path and you know what it meant to be part of a group. Image is so important that they would bend all rules just to be considered as cool. It is difficult to point the ...

Not drinking with moderation can induce a lot of harm in the human body. Excessive consumption of alcohol has led to several situations that have threatened the lives of a lot of men and women. Alcohol poisoning is one of the most common problems brought about by too much alcohol. This causes the central nervous system to falter, as the body fully absorbs the harmful contents of alcoholic beverages. Having a brief knowledge of alcohol poisoning symptoms can help you prevent accidents relating to excessive drinking. Here are some of the most common alcohol poisoning symptoms. A person who is a victim of alcohol poisoning may have a noticeable change of skin color, turning it to a pale or blue-ish color. This is caused by intense cold that is also felt by the victim once the alcohol contents spread throughout the body. The feeling of hypothermia is also one of the many alcohol poisoning symptoms. Should the victim faint, you may find it extremely difficult to wake the person up or at least receive signs of external stimulus. The victim may involuntarily vomit some of the alcohol that he/she has consumed, but this may not cause the person to fully ...

Living with an alcoholic can place a person in a very uncomfortable situation. Whether you are a spouse, a parent or a child of an alcoholic, it is always a struggle to help another person get through an addiction problem. The process requires a lot of emotional and physical effort in order to push the other person to become better and to eventually release their unhealthy habits. If you happen to be living with an alcoholic, here are some tips that can help you in rehabilitation your loved one for the better. 1. Do not forget to also take care of yourself. A lot of people who are living with an alcoholic tend to forget the fact that they are also involved in the process of helping their loved one get rid of the addiction. This allows them to make the awful mistake of forgetting to care for themselves. If the person is not able to look after their self, it is much more difficult to take care of another person. Make sure that you also look after your own health and wellbeing. 2. Knowing more about the problem can help you cope with the person’s irregularities and habits. It takes ...

Alcohol detox allows the body to be totally cleansed of the presence of alcohol. While there are families who prefer to submit their members to rehabilitation centers for the treatment, there are also a few others who prefer home alcohol detox. Home alcohol detox can be done by pure abstinence, allowing the body to fully evade itself from alcohol and by going through constant medication as well as a prescribed diet. In this case, it is every important that the family provide emotional and physical support to their loved ones who choose to have home alcohol detox. During the detoxification process, most of the functions rely on the individual’s liver and kidneys. If you wish to fully cleanse yourself with alcohol, it is still recommended to take assistance from experienced nurses or general practitioners in the field of detoxification. If the person only has moderate alcohol consumption, it is advisable to try home alcohol detox. However, if the patient is already experiencing severe cases of hallucination or extreme symptoms of alcohol withdrawal, you may need a professional’s help to get through the process. There are also meetings held in professional centers to help alleviate the stress brought on patients with alcoholic ...

It is a well known fact that alcoholism can bring a lot of damage in our body. No one is ever safe from the negative effects of alcohol that can plague our internal systems as well as the way we think. In many ways, alcohol can be a fun substance to consume if used with utmost moderation. Since it is considered as a type of drug that you drink when you are depressed, the substances contained in most alcoholic beverages can also seem very addictive. It is only safe to drink a specific amount of alcohol otherwise this may cause nausea and queasiness after a short amount of time. The negative effects of alcohol can also be short term or long term. Short term negative effects of alcohol include loss of coordination or judgment. If the person has fully intoxicated himself or herself with alcohol, this may also cause blurred vision, making it difficult for the body to maintain balance. Since your vision and judgment are impaired, it is difficult to make decisions, leading to rash activities when you are drunk. If your body has low tolerance for alcohol, at rare instances, this may also lead to a coma or ...

Many men and women struggle with alcoholism. A huge portion of this demographic chooses to blame hereditary effects and factors as the main cause of their alcoholism. The medical industry has long been bothered by the question, “Is alcoholism hereditary?” In many ways, alcoholism hereditary can be proven true. Since genes play a lot of influence in most health abnormalities as well as undefined disorders, it can be safe to say that it does have an effect to how alcoholic men and women react to their addiction. Although this is a proven fact, not all symptoms and causes of alcoholism may be solely based and/or blamed in the existence of alcoholism hereditary. Being addicted to alcohol can also mean that you have a high-risk personality. This means that the person involved has lower inhibitions, allowing risks to be taken in most situations. Should a person have the incredible combination of having a family of alcoholics and a high-risk personality, the probability of an individual becoming an alcoholic is higher than normal. Since the genes in the human body plays an essential role in most bodily and systematic developments, there is a huge probability that your genetic makeup can affect your ...

The first step in any alcohol rehab course is detoxification. Taking it from the word itself, detoxification deals with the full removal of the “toxic” or alcohol from the body. Alcohol treatment centers basically sail into two channels regarding detoxification programs. There are treatment centers that believe that detoxification must be done before patients get into the premises, while there are centers that allow patients to detoxify within the facilities. Cleaning the body from the alcohol is not easy as that, because dangerous symptoms of withdrawal must simultaneously be managed while it is being done. Patients are given medication to counter the effects of withdrawal. Heavy alcohol drinkers who experience hallucinations and deliriums upon withdrawal are also given mental treatment. Alcohol rehab cannot proceed as long as detoxification is not executed. Alcoholism cannot be cured if patients do not accept that they exhibit the symptoms of alcoholism. After detoxification, patients of alcohol rehab programs will take a comprehensive series of lectures and discussions regarding alcoholism as a disease, and how to overcome it, and how not to deny having it. Different alcohol rehab programs have different approaches on how to facilitate these lectures and discussions, but surely they are designed ...

It is easy to say that people suffering from alcohol dependence must undergo a rehabilitation program in alcohol treatment centers. The problem however is that people don't know whether they are just inclined to frequent drinking or they are already drug dependents. In order to find this out, ardent alcohol drinkers must assess themselves whether they possess three characteristics in taking in alcohol. First, a very strong and persistent craving to drink, second, there is loss of moderation, or in other words, if drinking is frequently uncontrolled despite of being in front of many activities and responsibilities, third, there is high tolerance, or the need to drink a lot of bottles before reaching the “high” or the pleasurable effects of the substance, and last but not the least, there are withdrawal symptoms, like experiencing nausea and anxiety when drinking is stopped for some period. Many people perceive alcohol treatment centers as dark prisons where patients are incarcerated until they get used to the absence of drinking. Treatment centers are definitely not like that. Patients are not locked in their rooms and can walk around the center premises as long and as free as they want. Patients too can drop out of ...