Alcohol Addiction

Alcoholism is a broad based term that includes the users all initial stages of the alcohol users or in other works alcohol drinking its addiction, abuse and lastly dependency.

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The users move from one stage to another as the drinking habit continues with consistency. The final stage experiences include ill effects on persons own health and his social functioning.

Alcoholism

Drinking Alcohol continually and in large quantities produces extreme addiction within the person’s system. At this stage alcohol is taken most by choice by intense urge to drink it. Withdrawal or separation from alcohol is painful at this stage, which is termed Alcoholism. The chronic phase is characterized by dependence on alcohol to stay calm. Without it the person displays physiological and psychological symptoms of unrest.

Similarly alcohol addiction and abuse results when invariably excessive alcohol beverages are consumed which effect the normal pattern of the personal life, the family outlook and stability at work. This greatly causes health disorders. In fact alcoholism is diseases that forces the user to take heavy doses and is unable stop drinking. The inability to check limit comes about when ill health symptoms occur. Alcoholism damages the body inner sensitive parts as pancreatitis, Polyneuropathy, heart disease, cirrhosis of liver, alcoholic dementia, cancer, sexual dysfunction, nutritional deficiencies and even can causes and or parts. The stomach inner lining is exposed to excessive damage causing the risk of stomach wall weakening damage and cancer formation.

A report from University of Florida research group published in Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, states that older people taking a drink or two may become more impaired than they suppose, afterwards.

68 nonsmokers were involved in the study in two groups. One group aged 50 to 74 which was compared to the other group aged 25 to 35, with one drink at least, per month. To some of the peoples involved were given placebo which was not a breath alcohol levels elevator, whereas some were served with alcohol.

They were carefully monitored keeping in view their history of alcohol consumption, demographic characteristics, body mass index, and gender. The participants had to go the tests in different phases after alcohol was given. Phases consisted of 25 minutes and 75 minutes post alcohol intake required participants to draw lines without lifting the pen from the paper, connecting dots with numbers and letters in sequence. They were checked for the number of mistakes they made.

Whether it’s Midwest or Northeast, much of the United States has turned into a deep freezer because of the intense cold.  National weather Service says that the country would remain in the clutches of intense cold for next many days.

When there is below 20F with 20m/h wind, an exposed skin takes only few minutes to be frostbitten, but sometimes you have to go in this extreme cold willingly or unwillingly. The following recommendations can help you a lot to keep yourself and dear ones safe and protected in these extreme cold.

When the inner body temperature falls below 95 degree, Hypothermia begins to set in and can affect your brain. Often, the victim of this condition can’t think clearly and begins to lose coordination. Hands, tip of the nose, fingers, feet and toes can badly are quite susceptible to extreme cold.  The different tissues of the body begin to freeze because of the frostbite that causes ice crystals which harm the cells.

Elderly and kids can become an easy victim of frostbite and hypothermia, and similarly those people who have blood circulation problems like diabetes or use various drugs like nicotine, alcohol and beta blockers are also at higher risk for hypothermia or frostbite. The use of thee types of drugs become the cause of insufficient blood supply to the skin.

UK researchers find that wise men produce better sperms than the men of average intelligence.

In the study researchers from Institute of Psychiatry examined data received from former American Army men who were on service at the time of Vietnam War.

The researchers noticed that those soldiers who did well on intelligence tests were inclined to produce better quality sperm.

The study has been published in the journal Intelligence and it seems to support that concept that if minute mutations in genes impair intelligence, they may effect or harm other traits like quality of sperms.

Usually it doesn’t happen that an addicted person asks for help in finding a drug rehab facility and this gives enough reason for an alcohol and drug intervention. People who have some loved one addicted to drugs or alcohol, a successful drug or alcohol rehab program has a lot of importance for them.

If drug or alcohol intervention program is done in the proper way, it often proves very effective. The first and foremost step in this connection is to have the family who is willing to do this. Before starting actual intervention, a meeting, known as ‘family day’ is held. Family day is considered quite important because it helps to go an intervention go smoothly.

On that family day, the interventionist educates involved family members about tough love, addiction, drug rehab programs and getting the family strong enough to sit down and with love and intention make the addicted person accepting help. Though it looks quite difficult, almost 90 percent people will accept the help and chooses to go into a drug rehab.

A new study suggests that light drinking during pregnancy does not increase baby’s risk of behavioral problems.

Researchers from the University College London specified ‘light drinking’ as not more than two drinks a week throughout pregnancy.

The study, which included 12,500 three-year-olds, found that there was a lower risk of some problems in children of such drinkers.

However, the experts are divided over whether this study is encouraging or can calm women into a false sense of security.

According to Government advice, pregnant women should avoid drinking during pregnancy and if they do choose to drink, they shouldn’t consume more than one or two units of alcohol in a week or two.

There is a well-established relation between sustained heavy drinking in pregnancy and health problems for the babies.

In some severe cases drinking can cause miscarriage, stillbirth or permanent damage to the growing fetus.

A U.S. study finds that casual smokers have 16% higher risk than nonsmokers to become hazardous drinker and similarly, they are at 5% higher risk to develop alcohol-use disorders (AUDs).

The researchers from Yale University School of Medicine analyzed data on more than 5,000 adults( aged 18to 25) who were asked about their current smoking behavior, frequency of alcohol use, weekly alcohol intake, rates of hazardous drinking and AUD diagnoses.

The study has been published online in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research and it is expected to be published in print issue of the journal in December.

The number of women, who are going for breast cancer gene test, is higher than ever, while leaving parents in tough scenario, either they go for their kid’s test or not.

Last year, 100,000 breast cancer gene mutation tests were done, which is twofold than the number of 2005. The trend can grow even more because of expanding insurance coverage and a new law banning genetic discrimination.

Medical expert recommend such testing after the age of 25, as a very little can be done to prevent or cure for breast or ovarian cancer until then, so the results would only create unwanted worry.

However, new studies and interviews by The Associated Press show that many people who have BRCA gene mutations and even more of their offspring, disagree.

Everyone lose hair on a daily basis, unfortunately many people rapidly loss hair than the generation of the new ones in replacement. It results in thinning hair and possibly leads to partial or complete baldness. Hereditary character also plays a key role in the intensity of hair loss but improper care of hair along with an unhealthy lifestyle may cause early hair loss.

The following are some useful hair care tips that you can use to perk the scalp up and improve hair look.

General

A healthy lifestyle means healthier hair for your personality. Excessive stress, smoking, lack of sleep, inadequate exercising and malnutrition are not healthy for your hair.