Alcoholism Classification
Nowadays consumption of so-called «soft» drinks increases in our society, the opinion is formed of their less harm for the body. Advertising emphasizes their lightness, and suggests that you should receive a positive charge of energy to make communication easier. Style of communication and a habit to spend time with an obligatory attribute of one-two bottles of the «magic elixir» is formed. However, is everything so simple?
Everybody knows that С2Н5ОН is a psychotropic poison and whatever dresses of «haute couture» are put on, it causes habituation, and here it is unknown yet, what is present in genes! And as a consequence, medicine sees an expressed growth of quantity of young people, who suffer from addiction to such «helpers». Habituation to alcohol depends very greatly on the initial motivation of consumption, on the fact how a person explains, justifies taking strong drinks. If the motivation of drinking is satisfaction of vital emotional demand – to relax, to improve communication, to get calm, etc., then such a motivation will speed up habituation. The more urge to drinking, the more often drinking will take place, the sooner will become habituation to it. An alcoholic style of life is formed, a steady alcoholic position of a person when alcohol keeps substituting the reality, and a person gets a real human pleasure from life less and less.
What is alcohol addiction? First of all, it is a change of the body reaction to alcohol, occurrence of biochemical, psychophysiological transformation in the body in response to chronic intoxication with alcohol. The dependence syndrome includes an urge to get certain effects from a drinking-bout, a system of belief that alcohol gives such effects, «alcoholic alibi» or proofs of impossibility not to drink, intolerance to sobriety and a wish to «add» at occurrence of light drunkenness.
A dictated image of a «real alcoholic» - a drunkard, a sot who becomes drunken with a spoon of wine – is held in consciousness of people; all the other versions they try not to attribute to alcoholism. But this image of a «real alcoholic» (alcoholism of the third stage) was reached not for one step!
Paying attention to the gradual and unnoticeble to yourself and the surrounding people, we will give a classification of alcoholism, which will allow you to intensify your sensitiveness to the onset of addiction, maybe it will warn you of your attitude towards drinking alcohol by you of your dear people.
«Alpha-alcoholism»
«Alpha-alcoholism» is more often a consumption of light wine, practically every day as an appetizer. And a slight drunkenness in this case is interpreted as the «expressed life temperament»: an individual is permanently joy, active, energetic. But an important feature of α-alcoholism is in the fact that an individual drinks, but not till heavy intoxication! Mainly because of no need in a complete black-out – in contrast there is a need in stimulation, with a help of a small dose. But in addition, his tolerance rises permanently, though very slowly (syndrome of altered responsiveness). In course of time a man drinks already not one, but two, three, four glasses of that light wine every day. And his psychics changes similarly in «small doses», unnoticedly, gradually. Due to a long process, all changes take a place more softly, not so striking to eyes; perhaps, the most noticeable consequence of such alcoholism is notoriously known alcoholic embriopathy (congenital fetus malformations). It is widely found in the countries of so-called «grapes zone of Europe». Along with the same gradual mental disorders there are somatic disorders, and a certain preoccupation in sex (a diminution of potency first «in a sober state», and then in general).
«β-alcoholism»
This dependence also has «an approximate geographical localization» - as a rule, countries of Central Europe, where the culture of consumption of such alcoholic beverages as beer has been formed. In case of beta-alcoholism use of alcohol and refusal from it has so-called sporadic (casual) nature, that is why this kind is related more to the «beer» culture which is also casual. If your friend is nearby - it is necessary to «go to drink some beer», if not - not necessary. Such consumption just characterizes onset of β -alcoholism. But nevertheless: chance is a chance, and in case of β -alcoholism people drink not very rarely, and it also coincides with a beer culture (especially where beer is drunk as often as we have tea). Although we can say that an individual with such consumption can be sober and having a drink in equal proportion. Step by step any friendly meetings, youth’s parties, and communication in principle in this culture are connected with the same beer by all means. The boundary between the «drunk and sober periods» - two specific stages of β -alcoholism - gradually becomes blurred (because intoxication from such drinks as beer does not come at once). Tolerance at β -alcoholism also rises, somatics will be enabled, at least - chronic poisoning with fusel oils, a notorious «beer cirrhosis», and so-called «bovine heart».
«γ-alcoholism»
It is widely spread in other so-called «countries with a moderately cold climate» - probably, because people there usually take in hard liquors «for heating» liquors - whisky, rum, cognac (they are also typical stimulators of γ-alcoholism), and in Russia and Ukraine that is vodka which is used more frequently. And, as it is generally known, concentration of alcohol in these drinks is high - as compared to wine and beer. So willy-nilly in any case practically there will be an «expressed hit on brain».
γ-alcoholism is already characterized with three stages:
- The first one - rise of tolerance (as actually in all kinds), but relatively rapid;
- The second one - the so-called «plateau of tolerance» (approximately for several years a tolerant dose achieves its peak and does not rise then, so it is what is usually called «I know my limit»);
- The third one - fall of tolerance (the body exhausted its resources to protect from alcohol). In this stage a γ-alcoholic with experience may go out without even some one hundred grammes of light wine.
One can learn and correct the forms of dependence in a proper way only with appeal to the professionals. You can arrange to see a doctor at the Medical Centre «Polynar» on any day and at any time – the Centre is open all day long, without days off.
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