Summary: The Seven Dimensions Of Alcohol Abuse

There are many current drug issues like heroin, prescription pills, and cocaine but one drug that people do not think about is alcohol. Alcohol is legal but that does not make it any less deadly or addictive. Alcohol has the potential to destroy families and kill people if abused. People do not realize how much alcohol abuse can affect a person 's wellness dimensions. There are seven dimensions of wellness, physical, intellectual, emotional, social, occupational, spiritual, and environmental. Alcohol impacts a person 's internal functions. Alcohol harms your liver, colon, digestive system, urinary system, reproductive system, and other aspects of the human body, "The three main conditions associated with overuse of alcohol are fatty liver, alcohol hepatitis, and cirrhosis" (Goldberg, 127). Since the body is being abused, the alcoholic may end up in the hospital and their organs could be …show more content…
This shortens their life and decreases their quality of life. One can be impacted intellectually and emotionally because alcohol affects a person 's mood and coping skills, "Many alcoholics experience memory loss and difficulty with problem-solving and decision-making." (Goldberg, 126). Alcohol negatively affects the brain and it has been shown that continual alcohol abuse can shrink the brain, "Using imaging with computerized tomography, two studies (8,9) compared brain shrinkage, a common indicator of brain damage, in alcoholic men and women and reported that male and female