Do we know how to drink? And how often do we drink? Do we have a culture of drinking? Where is the line between drunkenness and alcoholism? Many people say: “I’m not lying under the fence, do I? I can drink there is no need for me to be treated. ” Or maybe when a person drops to the “under-intake” level he will no longer ask such questions and it is too late to treat him. Alcoholics are not born - they become. A person is internally free and freedom gives the right to choose: to drink or not to drink? We will talk about this. Remember that alcoholism is a disease.
Alcohol addiction statistics
Over the past five years the percentage of patients aged 20-27 who see a narcologist has increased by 50%. On the one hand, it is gratifying that patients are aware of their illness and want to get rid of it on the other hand this is “early” alcoholism that is fraught with threats to one’s own health and to relatives’ friend’s society. With a careful questioning of the young people who applied it turns out that already from the age of 16-17 they began to get drunk.
How to understand that alcohol dependence has appeared - the main symptoms
In our society, there is an opinion that drunkenness is drinking alcohol in the morning to relieve “feeling unwell” after a “good evening” and the fact that a person drinks a bottle of beer or gin and tonic in the afternoon to “relax” is already not a hangover. Unfortunately, this is a deception. In the language of neurologists, this is “late intoxication” and it is characteristic of people with initial manifestations of alcohol dependence and people of the so-called socially adapted. A person understands that drinking in the morning is bad and that he needs to go to work to an educational institution to get behind the wheel and he should look normal. But during the whole working day, he does not leave the obsessive thought that after work he (she) will be able with a “clear conscience” to buy a couple of bottles of beer or even something stronger to “relax relieve stress.” Such a scenario for the behavior of relatives We see relatives and acquaintances more and more often and many do not attach importance to this. But this is already two days of drunkenness and if this continues on the third and fourth days then we can talk about an almost systematic use of alcohol.
Unfortunately, a subculture has now formed: young people with a bottle in their hands drink beer longer rum-cola walk down the street and some young mothers even sip an alcoholic drink from the neck with a stroller. The smell and vapors of alcohol are constantly felt in the subway minibus transport and in places of large gatherings of people. And society perceives this as a tribute to the times. In schools, it is often discussed in which cafe or restaurant to celebrate the new year to hold a graduation party how much alcohol is needed to have enough. And all this is happening with the support of parents and teachers. But many graduates are under seventeen. And this is also perceived as “the norm”! And what about juvenile delinquency when practically all offenses occur mainly in a state of alcoholic or other drug intoxication? Is there really no other way to relax have fun? After all, there is music art theater sports other hobbies, and hobbies. But here you need to show desire and striving for inner and outer perfection and for this, you need to show at least a little will and fight your own laziness. But some take the easier path. I drank - I relaxed I don’t have to work on myself and I don’t need to do anything “it’s easy in my soul and light in my body.” So intoxicating days weeks months and years gradually take shape.
What is the danger of alcohol dependence?
What is the danger of drunkenness? First of all alcohol abusers do not consider themselves sick and go to the doctor only in case of a conflict in the family at work or after an injury surgery received after drinking alcohol.
