Beer Alcoholism

Beer alcoholism - pathological addiction to beer. As the term does not exist in ICD-10.It is used everywhere in printed and electronic publications, but it is not an official diagnosis, because coding for beer alcoholism according to the International Classification of Diseases 10 is not envisaged as a cipher. Nevertheless, some Russian scientists consider beer alcoholism as a special kind of alcoholism, which is more difficult to cure, since beer is usually not taken seriously, although the speed of the formation of mental dependence is faster and more imperceptible.

The taste of beer is not as repulsively unpleasant as vodka. This is the danger! Beer is widely distributed as ordinary food products - drinks. Seriously not perceived. And patients with alcoholism who consume strong alcoholic beverages are easier to remove from drinking-bouts detoxification therapy.

Consumption of beer in Russia in 2013 was 59 liters per person per year( in the Czech Republic this figure was 158 liters).Among patients with alcoholism, drinking only beer is a rare occurrence. Basically they prefer strong drinks.

Consequences of drinking beer

• Compared with vodka, heavy alcohol intoxication is much lower when consuming only one beer. Feature: alcohol dependence develops faster from the use of beer than strong spirits.
• The pathology of internal organs in abusing beer outstrips the development of psychopathological disorders already at the early stages of the disease. The beer patients have less expressed intellectual and moral deformities of the person, as well as deviant behavior and episodes of alcoholic intoxication of a pronounced degree. With moderate drinking, if the beer is present, it is possible to fill the deficiency of certain vitamins and amino acids.
• An intoxicating effect produces any alcoholic beverage. The degree of influence depends not only on the strength of the drink, but also on its dose. Within an hour, when taking 40% of alcohol products, reaches the maximum concentration of ethanol in the blood. Of course, when drinking beer, the likelihood of developing severe alcohol intoxication is much lower than when using vodka.
• However, with the regular abuse of any alcoholic beverages, fatty liver disease, hepatitis and cirrhosis develop. Increased risk of oncological neoplasms in the large intestine. Beer abuse is characterized by the development of beer heart syndrome.

Stages of development of beer alcoholism

One half-liter bottle of beer contains alcohol equivalent to 50 ml.of vodka. Here is a small test for beer alcoholism:

1. Does it pull you to the smell of beer so that you dream of sooner to drink it?
2. Do you think that a good way to relieve tension after a working day is to drink beer?
3. Is your usual dose of beer 0.5 liters?
4. Do you always consume beer when given the opportunity?
5. If you are offered, then it is simply impossible to give up beer?

If the answer is "Yes" to more than one question, then the respondent is at risk. If the answer is "Yes" is in front of 2-3 questions, there is a probability of having a stage of alcohol dependence. Need advice from an expert in narcology. The stages of beer alcoholism are not expressed in such brightness, as from alcohol dependence on strong spirits. There are 2 stages:

1. Early stage with an inconspicuous addiction to beer. Several times a week, 1 liter is drunk.
2. Stage of pronounced addiction to beer. Already without beer you can not relax. Daily consumption of up to 2 liters of beer.

Harm to beer

The habit of drinking beer in men and women is not only a means for intoxication, but, most dangerous - a way to quench your thirst. This is the danger of beer! The question becomes how to get rid, treat and cure beer alcoholism! Symptoms and signs of beer alcoholism are not as obvious as from stronger spirits. Although they are similar: irritability, a desire to drink, a weakening of health, a hangover.

Harm of beer manifests itself in the following directions:

1. Cardiac cavities and veins expand. The walls of the heart muscle thicken, the borders increase, the blood vessels and passages are squeezed. The muscle weakens and wears out. Becomes flabby.
2. Beer causes hormonal changes, due to the content of an artificial analogue of estrogens - female hormones. Men are "feminized", and women, on the contrary, acquire masculine traits. The endocrine system is suppressed and the craving for the opposite sex is reduced.
3. Beer inhibits the cells of the central nervous system - the brain. The will power of the drunk beer is reduced. And he becomes more lazy and tends to sleep.

Features of beer alcoholism

• Slow development.
• Attraction to beer is more intrusive.
• The smell of beer draws to its use.
• Beer is used in the early days of the day.
• Doses of beer are large, intoxicating is moderate.
• Systematic reception of beer at every opportunity.

Treatment of beer alcoholism

How to fight and win dependence on beer?

For the treatment of beer alcoholism, personal aspiration, desire, address to the doctor-narcologist and observance of all his recommendations is necessary.

If the work of the body's enzymes is not very disturbed by alcohol intake, then you can stop drinking beer yourself. But it is better to go through detoxification of the body in the narcological clinic, psychotherapeutic help. Connect folk remedies that are taken out of the body superfluous: thyme, St. John's wort, oregano, hawthorn, flax seeds. People's means can even code addiction to alcohol, of course under medical supervision.

Prevention

For the prevention of beer dependence in teenagers it is useful to spend a class hour at school with presentations of various presentations, photos, pictures and videos about beer alcoholics. Let the student himself write an essay or course work on alcoholism and its varieties.