How A Parent’s Drinking Affects Your Child

2008 February 28 by: Scott

Some Simple & Current Facts About Alcoholism

· Alcohol is the chemical fermentation or distillation of fruits or grains.
· Alcoholism is a diseased characterized by a compulsion to drink alcohol.
· The American Medical Association and the World Health Organization recognizes alcoholism as a disease.
· Alcoholism is a disease because of its impairment of the body’s health and causes abnormal, progressive deterioration of the body’s organs.
· Alcohol affects people differently. The immediate effects range from mild mood changes to complete loss of coordination, vision, balance and speech.
· Chronic alcoholism is a progressive and often fatal disease.
· An alcoholic craves alcohol. Once the body is addicted to alcohol, it relies on this chemical just as it relies on oxygen.
· Alcoholism affects an individual’s mind. Alcoholics not only become physically dependent, they are often psychologically dependent.
· The causes of alcoholism have been hard to define. Most medical research doctors have come to the conclusion that alcoholism is caused by a blend of genetic, physical, psychological, environmental and social factors.