Info on Alcoholism

Alcoholism is characterized by severe mental and physical dependence on alcohol (alcohol dependence). Alcohol, like disease, multiple stages of development, characterized by a gradual increase in alcohol dependency, decrease the possibility of self-regarding alcohol, as well as the progressive development of various somatic violations caused by chronic alcohol intoxication.

The most simple differentiation of alcoholism based on the presence of clinical and psychological signs of alcohol dependence, as well as the frequency and number of drinkers: There are the following groups of people:

1. People do not drink alcohol
2. Those alcohol consumption
3. People abuse alcohol (the development of alcohol dependency)

* No signs of alcoholism
* The initial symptoms of alcohol (loss of situational and dose control, deeply)
* The signs of alcoholism (regular deeply, the defeat of internal organs, mental disorders, alcoholism typical)

The above classifications can be seen that alcohol dependence develops from random episodes of alcohol prior to the development of heavy alcohol [3].

In the development of alcoholism distinguish Prodromou and the three main stages:

Prodromou

«Prodrom» is considered «zero» stage of alcoholism - at this stage do not yet have the disease, but is «domestic drunkenness». Man drink alcohol «on the situation», usually with friends, but rarely get drunk out of his memory, or to other serious consequences. While Stage «prodroma» is not passed into alcoholism, a person can without harm to their psyches to stop alcohol at any time. When prodrome people, in most cases, indifferently refers to whether it would be soon binge, or will not. Vypiv in the company, people generally do not require continuing, and no vypivaet then themselves.

The first stage

In the first stage of alcoholism is often difficult patient desire to use alcohol (usually attracted to alcohol provoked problematic situations: fatigue, trouble, the feeling of hunger), the alcoholic views this as an attraction rodstvennoe thirst or starvation. If you can not use alcohol sense of attraction at the time passes, but in the case of alcohol control in relation to the number of vypitogo sharp falls and the patient typically seeks to achieve a state of drunkenness. At this stage of the disease there is no vomiting, and the state of intoxication is often accompanied by excessive irritability, aggressiveness, and even cases of retrograde amnesia (the patient does not remember the events happened to him in a state of intoxication). The frequency of alcohol consumption variable, possibly multi-drunkenness. For the first stage of alcoholism is characterized by a change of attitude alcoholic to alcohol. He lost a critical attitude to drunkenness and a tendency to justify every case of alcohol consumption. The first phase of alcoholism is gradually moving into the second.

Second Stage

In the second stage of alcoholism significantly increased stamina to alcohol. Attraction to spirtnomu become stronger and self-slabeet. After the use of even small doses of medicine a patient loses the ability to control the number of vypitogo. In drink a position he has tended to unpredictable and sometimes dangerous to others. However, the main sign of the second stage is to develop alcohol abstinence syndrome. Abstinence syndrome is a combination of psychosomatic disorders arising from chronic alcohol intoxication after a new and growing adoption of a certain number of liquor. Typical components of abstinence syndrome are trembling fingers, age, language, frequent heartbeat, high blood pressure, insomnia, vomiting while trying to drink or eat anything. A patient with abstinence syndrome is very irritant. At the peak of development Syndrome can develop acute alcoholic psychosis (alcoholic deliry, gallyutsinoz alcohol, alcoholic depression, alcohol epilepsy, etc.)

The third stage

At the third stage of alcoholism stamina to alcohol crashes, and alcohol has become an almost daily basis. There is a significant degradation of the individual patient with irreversible changes in the psyche. Violations of the internal organs grow and become irreversible (alcoholic hepatitis, alcoholic encephalopathy, etc.).