Hello Everyone!
Hope you all are doing well and living a healthy life. Being a healthcare professional here, I would like to share my view in the contest SEC-S13 / W5 | "How can alcohol cause damage to your health! 🍺" organized by Healthy Steem community. Alcohol has both health and socio-economic impact on any individual and society.
🍺 When can we say that a person is an alcoholic? Give reasons for your answer!
A person do not become alcoholic in a day. It starts with a small portion of drink for fun! As alcohol affect the brain and impaired the function of brain, after consumption of alcohol person feel relax and his/her reaction time become slower. To achieve this mental state, he increases the frequency and quantity of alcohol consumption. Talking biologically alcohol cases some changes in the release of neurotransmitter like Dopamine which causes euphoria and relaxation but at the same time excessive dopamine release causes tolerance also.
Continue consumption of alcohol develops such changes in the brain and a person become habitual of that. A person who do not consume alcohol on regular basis and there is no withdrawal symptoms visible, then we can not say a person alcoholic. On the other hand, a person whose body started to develop the negative effect of alcohol like tremors, sweating, nausea, or anxiety can be considered an alcoholic.
🍺 Do you think alcohol is a drug? Justify your answer!
There are various definition of drug. Biologically, it is a substance which alter the biological function of body. Legally drug is a substance that is controlled or regulated by government authorities. Medically speaking, a drug is a substance used to diagnose and treat any ailment of the body. A substance which affect physiologically and can be prescribed or sold over the counter is classified as a drug under pharmacologically.
Alcohol is used in various medicines to treat some diseases. It is controlled by government authority, it caused dependence and tolerance also if consumed heavily. It changes biological ad physiological function of the body.
Considering the above definitions and its effect on body, we can say that alcohol is a drug.
🍺 Can alcoholism be considered a disease? How to control it!
Yes, there are enough reasons to justify that alcoholism is a serious disease. According to American Medical Association, alcoholism is a chronic brain disease which is also termed as Alcohol use disease (AUD). In alcoholism, despite negative consequences of alcohol, an alcoholic person unable to give up alcohol consumption.
To check the disease, a multidimensional approach is required. Which include medical help as well as counselling.
Medical treatment
There is effective medical treatment available to treat alcoholism. Medicines can be taken on the prescription of a reg medical practitioner to get rid of craving of alcohol and to treat withdrawal symptoms.
Lifestyle modification
Under the guidance of any healthcare profession, change in lifestyle can help to improve recovery in the treatment of alcoholism. Certain positive changes like doing regular exercise and yoga, taking healthy diet and adequate sleep can improve overall well-being and enhance the recovery process.
Counselling
An alcoholic person is alcohol dependent and unable to get rid of alcohol on its own. There are other socio-economic issue caused by excessive consumption of alcohol, so it needs strong will power to quit alcohol. A counselling can help and motivate the person to understand the negative impact of alcohol.
🍺 Is every drinker considered an alcoholic?
Just consuming alcohol doesn't make anybody an alcoholic. A person who drink in a limit and his/her drinking habit doesn't cause any negative impact on health or his socio-economic status can't be categorized as an alcoholic. Alcohol consumption only leads to alcoholism when a person become unable to stop consumption of alcohol despite developing its negative consequences. E.g. even social and economic status of any drinker is deteriorating despite that he is unable to stop drinking, then it is a sign that he is becoming an alcoholic.
Conclusion
Overall, alcohol is a social evil. Some people may argue that there is no harm in drinking alcohol within limits. But the drinker crosses this limit without even realizing it and it becomes a problem.
Disclaimer- I am a teetotaler
Hope you have enjoyed reading my post. Please leave your feedback in comments. I invite @yoelmo26, @aprendeconkevin and @aprendeconkevin to take part in the contest.
It's great hearing from a health personnel about such a topic, I'd speak from a lay man point of view but compared to yours I'd learn a lot just like now I've learnt that drinking alcohol for the very first time makes you an alcoholic and that alcoholism starts from taking a sip of alcohol and progressively falling into the well of alcoholism.
Thanks for sharing sir.
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Saludos amigo es un gusto volver la a ver activo la plataforma.
Una excelente participación la que nos ha dejado explicando muy bien su punto de vista con respecto al alcoholismo y sus afectaciones en nuestro organismo.
Ciertamente el alcohol es una droga muy peligrosa que nos afecta no solo a nivel físico sino también mental causando graves problemas a nuestra salud y sobre todo a nuestro entorno porque dejamos de ser las personas que somos cuando el alcoholismo se apodera de nuestro ser, situación que nos aleja de nuestros seres queridos ya que la persona alcohólica es incapaz de reconocer que necesita ayuda.
Y estoy de acuerdo con usted la línea entre ser un alcohólico y no serlo es sumamente delgada y muchas veces se cruza sin siquiera darse cuenta es por eso que es importante que seamos conscientes del daño que causa el alcohol en nuestras vidas y también que aprendamos a controlar o a disminuir en el mejor de los casos su consumo para así evitar caer en este vicio.
Buena suerte con su participación.
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