To determine the addiction to alcohol, you need to know symptoms of alcoholism .Knowledge of the signs characteristic of alcoholism, will allow us to distinguish between domestic drunkenness and alcoholic illness.
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Why do people drink alcoholic beverages? Why they do it again and again. And, even when, finally drunk, they can not stop. Because a person who is accustomed to drinking alcohol can no longer feel comfortable in a sober state. After a glass of vodka in the blood circulates a certain time. Then alcohol is neutralized by the body's defense systems. The intoxicated state of a sick person begins to be perceived as natural and desirable. The next glass drunk again. There is a pathological desire to drink and drink, first in order to get drunk, and then to fall into unconsciousness. This is a vicious circle, which begins to be repeated more and more often, and then daily.
A drunk person begins to feel a secondary attraction to alcohol. All barriers are broken. And the patient passes from the first stage of alcoholism to the second .
Cardinal symptoms of alcoholism are its manifestations, which are not yet very pronounced in the initial stage of the disease. Then they develop and strengthen, becoming increasingly heavy and sinister from stage to stage.
The key symptom of alcoholism lies on the surface, in sight - this obsessive desire to drink under the guise of a wide variety of excuses .
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The main symptom is a pathological craving for alcohol!
This is what we mentioned above - a painful attraction to alcohol, or cravings. Attraction to alcohol is formed gradually and unconsciously. There are various reasons for drinking. The man is dragging out unnoticed into the swamp. Especially detrimental in this regard is the influence of the company of drinkers. They badly influence each other and, in the end, nothing good comes of it.
From the pathological craving for alcohol comes the most important sign - the loss of the emetic reflex. The protective mechanism that throws the poison out is suppressed. Objectively, from the side, it can be difficult to establish a person's desire for alcohol and loss of control over the amount of alcohol consumed. After all, he can mask this. But the absence of a vomiting reflex is a reliable symptom of alcoholism!
Why is vomiting lost?
Any dose of alcohol for any living organism is a poison, much less a larger dose. Vomiting is a protective reflex. While the protection works, throwing poison out of the stomach, it protects the body from damage that can cause toxins of ethanol. But when a person often practices drinking before vomiting, he breaks down the vomiting. The body adapts to a constant alcohol attack. And, having got drunk to unconsciousness, a sick person can not vomit and not be! And, still, the symptoms of alcohol dependence do not include vomiting in the morning, with a hangover, after a past binge, as in cases of household drunkenness.
The loss of control over the amount of alcohol
The second core symptom of alcoholism is that a person, being intoxicated, continues to drink further, until complete discomfort and loss of feelings.
Tolerance to alcohol
In the second stage of alcoholism, tolerance to alcohol increases, that is - tolerance, or resistance - this is the third symptom of alcoholism. The longer the length of alcohol abuse, the more a person can drink and not get drunk. Alcoholics and ignorant people boast that I can drink a lot and not get drunk, erecting a vice in the rank of virtues and achievements.
Consider physical and acquired tolerance to ethanol.
- Physical tolerance is individual indicators of a person: age, whole, health status, body type, gender, etc. It is clear that the more a person weighs, the volume of his blood is greater and the incoming alcohol is more diluted than in a small persongrowth and lean physique.
- When a person begins to drink alcoholic beverages regularly and increases the dose, the acquired tolerance to alcohol appears. With household drunkenness, a drinker can drink 2 or 2.5 times more alcohol than a completely non-drinker.
But, even with a vomitive reflex preserved, the increase in alcohol tolerance, still has its limit. And when already domestic drunkenness turns into a disease - alcoholism, the gag reflex no longer works, and the alcoholic is able to "take on the chest" more alcohol. For the diagnosis of alcoholism, the multiplicity of acquired physical tolerance is important. For example, earlier a person could drink 100.0 ml.vodka, and now can consume 500.0 ml. Dividing 500 by 100, we will receive 5. We do a conclusion - tolerance to alcohol has grown in 5 times that speaks about an alcoholism. Alcoholism is diagnosed with an increase in tolerance from the initial 3-5 times.
It can also be noted as a symptom - the transition from weak alcoholic beverages to stronger ones - vodka, moonshine. That speaks of the desire to achieve a pronounced state of intoxication.
Single drunkenness
May be regarded as a symptom of alcoholism, but rather - this is one of the variants of the course of alcoholic illness. Very often you can watch and collective binges. So alcoholics are also singles and keep in the drinking companions' companies.
Abstinence
Abstinence, or withdrawal symptoms are physical symptoms of chronic alcoholism that occur when the patient is sober. He is sick, dizzy, whole body can burn with fire and he sweats. These manifestations indicate a dependence syndrome.
Dips in the memory of
Drinking people never fulfill their promises, and sometimes they do not remember what they talk about while drinking alcohol. This indicates short-term failures in memory.
Those who are addicted to domestic drunkenness can experience symptoms similar to alcoholism and therefore it is always better to stop in time.
