Alcohol is one of the most dangerous yet legal drugs. On the one hand, it is dangerous due to its high toxicity, and on the other hand, because it can cause severe forms of addiction.
Signs of initial alcoholism
1. A person is not aware of his addiction and will deny it to the last. As a rule, if you tell him that he has a problem with drinking, aggression will follow in response.
2. Drinking is out of control. “A couple of bottles of beer”, “Yes, we are one at a time.” As a result, a person always goes for a supplement, unable to stop. He just doesn't understand what it's like to drink one glass of wine.
3. There is no mood without alcohol. When sober, a person walks around sad and depressed, often irritated. He sees the whole world in gray.
4. A sharp change in mood when you get the opportunity to drink. If a sad, sad person literally blossoms and transforms at the sight of a bottle, if isolation changes to friendliness, excitement appears, somewhat hysterical gaiety, then he has already crossed the line.
5. You don't need a reason to drink. It is enough to find alcohol available and you won’t be able to stop.
Signs of alcoholism
To make a preliminary diagnosis of “chronic alcoholism”, it is enough one symptom:
- a person gets drunk in the morning
- there is no vomiting reaction to taking a large amount of alcohol
- if he starts drinking, he drinks, as they say, “to the cut”
- the next day he does not remembers (partially or completely) what happened
- can drink for several days in a row
- drinks even when he has very important things to do.
The diagnosis can only be made by a narcologist. To identify alcoholism or a predisposition to it, a specialist can ask just three questions. drink?”
If all three questions are answered positively, then the person is likely to have a problem with alcohol.
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