Alcoholism

The article What Colleges Need to Know Now: An Update on College Drinking Research, published by the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS), looks at the different aspects of college drinking as well as its consequences and the measures taken to intervene and prevent the repercussions of drinking, such as serious injury, death, DWI, and assault (USDHHS, 2007, p. 1). , What Colleges Need to Know Now: An Update on College Drinking Research examines several ways of intervening and…

I produced the PowerPoint we used to present our health promotion by using Microsoft PowerPoint 2010. This involved gathering and recording information from a variety of sources, this was done by me, Tyla-may and Kataya. I was responsible for using this information we gathered to design and product the PowerPoint, in addition to this I was also in charge of finding a definition of binge drinking which was obtained from the NHS website. Kataya had the role of finding the information and use it to…

Many people consume alcohol for leisure purposes in a responsible manner, as this is reinforced through social get-togethers with their peers. However, for other individuals, alcohol is a devastating problem since addition leads to destruction of lives, not only for the alcoholic individual but for their loved ones. As part of the alcohol awareness initiative, an individual may forgo alcohol consumption for 72 hours and document their experiences, feelings, thoughts, as well as actions related…

Before the war, Louie was not a big alcoholic, but he did have a drink every once in awhile here and there. Louie went into the war and had seen some pretty gruesome and violent stuff which could lead anyone to drink. After the war had occurred, Louie drove straight to alcohol it became a part of his daily life. He became so obsessed with getting the Bird, i.e., the person who tortured him in prisoners of war (P.O.W.) Camp, out of his mind he started drinking all the time claiming that it…

8367734 One Drink, One Mistake If I could go back in time and help my cousin stop drinking i would definitely do it. My cousin was going through depression and turned his head to alcohol. Now that he is an adult he has to take medication everyday. If the government and people around the world were more strict about young teens drinking, situations like this would not have to occur. The legal drinking age should not be lowered to 18 because drinking too much alcohol can cause addiction,…

Driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol (DUI) is the leading cause of death on roadways in the United States (1). Specifically, alcohol has several short-term effects that greatly impair the ability to drive, such as memory impairment, blackouts, recklessness, and impaired decision-making. Those who drink heavily more often also experience long-term effects including a diminished brain size, the inability to think abstractly, loss of perception awareness, memory loss, and decrease in…

numb the pain that their going through with losing someone close to them. As Marie Kim Wium-Andersen, David Dynnes Ørsted, Janne Schurmann Tolstrup, and Børge Grønne Nordestgaard state in their article, Increased alcohol consumption as a cause of alcoholism, without similar evidence for depression: a Mendelian randomization study, “Increased alcohol consumption has been associated with depression” (526). This means that there is a connection with the alcohol and depression. That if someone is…

love it. I think the A.A. is a very fine place for people who are willing to quit drinking. It’s a place where people share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The Alcoholic can meet people with experience of quitting, more willing to share their story, and they can express their feelings more…

One cause of cirrhosis is long-term alcohol abuse + Chronic alcoholism is the first most common cause of cirrhosis in the United States. Toxins and alcohol are broken down by the liver. However, if the amount of alcohol is too high, the liver will swell. The liver will have to work twice as hard and the liver cells can eventually become damaged. Heavy, regular, long-term drinkers are much more likely to develop cirrhosis, compared with other, healthy people. The amount of alcohol it takes to…

Although it isn’t considered a drug, at time alcohol can be as bad as or worse than one. Many people have become addicted to it just like and illegal drug. Most think that alcohol is just harmless or nothing to worry about but it has lots of effects, addiction, and many don’t even understand how it works. First, to be able to understand the effects, and addiction it's important to understand how it works. When you are given the alcohol you first put it into your system by ingesting it through…