ALCOHOL ABUSE

Alcohol abuse: societal effects, consequences and treatment

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Alcohol abuse: societal effects, consequences and treatment

Introduction

It's easy to make the diagnosis of abuse when you see someone in a drunken state. However, it is difficult to do this when the intake diagnosis, although less massive, is more frequent and prolonged. Such consumers often work and are integrated into society, keeping a slight or moderate blood alcohol level throughout the day, and do not understand they have a problem with alcohol. Many accidents and car accidents, as well as many problems regarding work and family are due to this type of consumer (Fleming, Mundt, French, et al. 2000, pp.7-18). But then we return to the same question: what is alcohol abuse? Abuse is for a human adult daily consume more than 24 g alcohol, equivalent to 250 ml of wine or beer glasses. A grown woman should not exceed 16 grams, which is equivalent to 170 ml of wine or two glasses of beer. Minors and pregnant women should not consume any amount of alcohol - the calculation that a drink containing alcohol and blood alcohol produced by ingestion. These recommendations are made on the assumption that the days in question do not consume liquor (e.g. brandy, cognac or whiskey) (Lynch, Penberthy, et al. 2007, pp.213-220).

Alcohol abuse

The initiation to alcohol is increasingly early. The current generation of teenagers starts drinking regularly at the age of 14, almost three years before the average displayed by young people five years ago. The change is worrying because the sooner a person starts drinking, the more likely she will experience problems with alcohol. 9% of adults who took their first sips to 14 years have passed after the category of dependents. Among those who began drinking after age 21, this rate is only 1%, according to the publication Use and Alcohol Abuse, released by Harvard University in 2008 (Fleming, Mundt, French, et al. 2000, pp.7-18). According to the American epidemiologist James Anthony, a professor at Michigan State University, the teenagers of today make up the first generation of women who are equal to men in rates of alcoholism. Among other reasons, they feel encouraged to compete with the boys, as the drink was also an area that should overcome gender equity. Start drinking requires persistence adolescents, because of strong and bitter taste of alcohol. But this obstacle was overcome by an invention that should turn the case of public health (Lynch, Penberthy, et al. 2007, pp.213-220).

Slightly exceed the values above (e.g., consuming 300 ml of wine per day) already is injurious to health but, as we all know, not enough to get drunk. Drunkenness only comes when intakes exceed 0.75 or even 1 liter of wine. The amount of alcohol in blood (blood alcohol level measured in grams per liter) although it has mainly to do with the amount of alcohol consumed, is also related to other factors, including (Lynch, Penberthy, et al. 2007, pp.213-220):

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