The causes of child alcoholism may be: attempts at self-affirmation among peers and elders;desire to get away from problems, troubles, stresses;dependence on street companies;possibility to buy alcoholic beverages;alcoholism in parents.
Children and teenagers drink alcohol mainly in their peers, and less frequently with adults. Especially popular are weak alcoholic beverages such as beer, carbonated and non-carbonated cocktails with alcohol. Children think that when they drink "adult drinks", they look older, more mature, more confident, but this is just an illusion - sad and dangerous.
The most severe form is congenital alcoholism, which affects those children whose parents abused alcohol during conception. In addition, in utero, they regularly received alcohol through the umbilical cord and they have a hereditary predisposition to alcoholism even higher than in normal children.
Features of children's alcoholism
What is dangerous alcoholism among children? Even the rare use of alcohol - this is stress for the body at this age. This finds immediate reflection in the psyche of the child and adolescent, is reflected in behavior, relationships, and learning. Feature of alcoholism in children is the most serious consequences for the life, health and psyche of the child.
In childhood, cardiovascular, nervous and endocrine systems are formed, and the whole organism. Alcohol breaks all natural processes. The nervous system and digestive organs begin to suffer. Liver burns, kidneys, heart, brain, pancreas, genital organs under the toxic effect of ethanol. Due to the immaturity of the child's organism, it is especially vulnerable to toxins and alcohol. The memory, intellect, thinking, emotional-strong-willed sphere suffers. With alcohol poisoning, the child often has convulsions, mental abnormalities. The consequences of child alcoholism can be fatal anyway. When severe alcohol poisoning - death, with chronic chronic poisoning - the deterioration of mental abilities and all health in general. Children are characterized by rapid development of the hangover syndrome. The character becomes a psychopath like that with features of increased excitability, explo- sion, aggression. In other cases, alcohol forms a non-initiative character.
Prevention and control of children's alcoholism
The problem of alcoholism in children is acute not only in Russia, but also in some countries of the former USSR.For example, in Ukraine. According to statistics, 40% of children aged 14 to 18 years abuse alcohol systematically. In 2010, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine imposed a ban on the sale of beer and some other low-alcohol products for minors. But, nevertheless, in the weather for profit, many entrepreneurs sell alcohol to children, including ours. Thus, the problem of teenage alcoholism continues to be acute.
One of the methods to combat alcoholism among adolescents is the ban on advertising for alcoholic beverages and tobacco products. But this method is not effective in children's alcoholism. The problem is shifted to the shoulders of parents. But the problem of drunkenness among children is inherent not only to disadvantaged families. And in well-to-do families, there is a lack of parental attention to children in connection with survival in the modern world where it is impossible to find a well-paid job, and in general with jobs is a big problem! To feed the family, to put children in school, to clothe and shoe them and themselves - this is a very big problem. Honest parents are busy day and night in their livelihood! They go to work on a rotational basis for a thousand kilometers. What there attention to children!
Treatment of child alcoholism
To cure child alcoholism, if you find the right approach to your son or daughter, they will be able to find time to help solve their problems and will take an active part in their lives and inner experiences. A child should know and feel parental love.
If there is a problem of child alcoholism, you should try to captivate the child with positive and interesting things. To distract the child from the bad. Children and adolescents themselves will not turn to a doctor-narcologist.
A considerable number of teenagers aged 14-15 years are treated in mental hospitals. They have a second and even a third stage of alcoholism. It is practically impossible to become a full-fledged person for them, as alcohol and the products of its cleavage cause irreversible damage to brain cells. This disease is called alcoholic encephalopathy.
Treatment of alcoholism in children and adolescents has features. Early diagnosis of alcoholism is critical in the success of treatment. Children's alcoholism is treated only in a hospital setting. On home treatment of alcoholism there can be no question! Treatment is complicated by the fact that not all medicines for the treatment of alcoholism can be used. Applied in the treatment of alcoholism, medicinal herbal preparations of general strengthening, vitamin and immune-restoring action. During the healing process, active rest, sports, and occupational therapy are recommended.
Alcoholism in adolescents and children, as in adults, is based on psychological reasons. Prevention of child alcoholism is limited to avoiding the separation of the child from the parents, as well as to control the adolescents and children not only from the parents, but also from the school.
