Alcoholism touches not only the one with the disease, but those they live with, and those they work with and others that have lives that are affected by the person suffering from alcoholism.
There is a dramatic impact felt by millions of people worldwide because of the serious illness known as alcoholism. There are those who consume alcohol (a drug) on a regular basis that crave the alcohol, are dependent on the drug and suffer consequences from the disease. The consequences are health-related, financial and can even have a devastating effect on spouses or other family members. Someone with alcoholism can also impact strangers when the disease causes them to make poor judgments like drinking and driving.
There are well-known facts about the disease alcoholism that contributes to the impact that the disease has on others including the fact that alcohol-connected deaths claim the lives of 100,000 individuals each year in the United States. The causes of these alcohol related deaths come from drinking and driving, diseases such as cancer of the liver, cirrhosis of the liver, and stroke. Falls are also included in causes of alcohol-related deaths. There are an estimated 109 million individual who drink alcohol in the United States aged 12 and up with 18 million of them fitting the diagnostic criteria for alcoholism or alcohol abuse.
Alcohol is a drug and is the one drug of choice that children and teens turn to making alcoholism a reality for individuals in any age group. Approximately 7,000 children in the U.S. will take their first drink of alcohol. Kids born to at least one parent suffering from alcoholism are more likely to start drinking at a young age. This makes them at a high risk for alcohol-related disorders including alcoholism.
Like most chronic diseases there are stages to alcoholism. There is an early, middle and late stage to the disease of alcoholism. In the early stage the individual comes to rely on alcohol to get through the day and catches him or herself thinking about when they can have that next drink. The tolerance level gradually increases until it becomes obvious to everyone that the person has a problem with alcohol.
Middle-stage alcoholism occurs when the alcohol consumption includes drinking early in the day and late into the night, effects relationships, ability to function properly at work, school or at home. Alcohol had had an impact on finances and the ability to positively maintain relationships with significant other or other family members.
End-stage alcoholism is when the individual becomes obsessed with alcohol to the point that not much else is more important. They experience blackouts where they do and say things while drinking that they cannot remember doing later, and have damaged body organs or impaired functionality, including cognitive ability to reason or think clearly, or by making poor judgments.
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