Info on Alcoholism

Chronic alcoholism - mental illness, caused by prolonged alcohol intoxication organism. Developing a domestic drinking, during which patients formed pathological addiction to alcohol, when subsequent dose of alcohol taken before the complete removal of the previous one. There abstinence (lifting syndrome), with irresistible desire opohmelitsya.
Clinic abstinence is alarmingly low-mood with irritability, fears, ideas, attitudes, sleep disturbance, episodic visual and hearing hallucinations. There was sweating, tachycardia, tremor of limbs, dizziness, gastrointestinal disorders. Patients with severe forms of abstinence to be short-term hospitalization.
For chronic alcoholism is characterized by a change sensitivity (tolerance) to alcohol, the first two stages - increasing the (ill strive to increase the dose) for the initial stage - lowering (pyaneyut patients from small doses). There were heavy, amnesticheskie (with zapamyatovaniem) forms of intoxication, deeply and degradation of the individual.
Mental disorders in the first phase characterized by increased fatigue, irritability, mood fluctuations, self-doubt, the decline of efficiency. Some patients attraction to alcohol takes obsessive nature.
The second stage is exuberant uncontrollable desire for alcohol, often deeply. Patients propivayut all the money, steal things for their families and sell them. Misconduct sick in the family often leads to divorce and family breakdown. The work of the patients were drunk. Their earning very low, they quickly tire. Identified serious change in the nature: the volatility, deceit, rudeness, selfishness. There are intellectual decline, memory impairment, lack of criticism. For the typical manifestations of emotional incontinence, the tendency to hysterical reactions. For the second stage of alcoholism is characterized by the frequent appearance of abstinence syndrome and the need to freshen the nip several times during the day.
In the initial stage, appearing deeply true because of the decline in tolerance to alcohol: alcohol intolerance because the patient stops drinking through the week, and then begins to drink again, creating a frequency deeply. Depth intoxication utyazhelyaetsya, often soporozny character (a soporific - a species of blackout). In this phase begins Alcohol degradation person. Patients are parasitic lifestyle, they are gross, slovenly, cynical, lose a sense of shame. They have developed an organic dementia with a lack of criticism of memory.
The clinic chronic alcoholism can meet epileptiformnye seizures (due to disruptive changes in the brain), as well as alcoholic psychosis arising in the second and third stages of the disease. Of the somatic violations noted obesity heart disease, hypertension, liver and kidney failure, chronic gastritis, chronic hepatitis B, etc.
The diagnosis of chronic alcoholism set on the basis of long-term use of alcohol with the loss of self-existence syndrome crapulent, as well as the alcoholic personality changes. History (Questions), the patient should be supplemented by information from work and residence.
Treatment of patients with chronic alcoholism is in a hospital or an outpatient in the drug cabinet psychiatrists.