Addiction is also used a lot in everyday life because the word addiction represents both physical and mental addiction.




Alcoholism in a narrow medical sense refers to physical poisoning (acute alcohol poisoning), and there is a famous story that when alcohol is injected into the anus , alcohol is immediately absorbed through the mucosal tissue into blood vessels. Since the glans is also a mucosal tissue, immersing the dick in alcohol can cause the same catastrophe.


Alcohol is not a liquid that is easy to drink, nor is it absorbed quickly just because it has a high alcohol content like Bacardi or Spiritus, and it is metabolized through the liver. Under the premise of not injecting alcohol directly through mucosal tissues other than the mouth, experience it when you inhale high-quality vodka with 40 degrees of alcohol content, which is thickly frozen in the freezer in an authentic Russian way to kill Booze, as if you were drinking wheat. can see. But don't follow the instructions here.. and then you'll really die. If you go through the throat because it is good, you will not get drunk in the blink of an eye, but you will faint and fall, and in severe cases, you may die of shortness of breath. Suddenly, at some point, you feel the alcohol rushing into your head, and your consciousness goes fuzzy. This is why Koreans go to Russia and drink with locals and are taken to the emergency room.


However, alcohol should only be about secondary damage, but in the case of other alcohols such as methanol , it is at least blindness and at most just death.

Alcoholism, which is the subject of this article, refers to a case of addiction to alcohol, such as drugs, and an inability to stop drinking.


Causes

Although it is a fact that many people overlook, 'alcohol' is an addictive substance classified as a 'drug' by the World Health Organization . Like tobacco , it is just a legal drug, and it is not a metaphor for smoking cessation and drinking, and is indeed a drug in a scientific sense. Alcohol dependence and toxicity belong to a fairly high risk group, and compared to methamphetamine , the so-called 'mulberry', the toxicity is lower but the dependence is higher. In other words, it is less harmful than most drugs, but it is more difficult to quit.


From a physiological point of view, there is a part in our brain called ' GABA a receptor' that is responsible for body relaxation during rest .When consumed, alcohol acts on GABA a receptors, producing a strong relaxing and sedative effect. In other words, alcohol has the effect of making you sleep better while forcibly suppressing the stressful tension and anxiety of the cranial nerves neuro psychiatrically. However, if you keep taking alcohol for the purpose of calming the nerves, our body judges that the nerve stabilizer is excessive and slows the sensitivity of the GABA a receptor by not making GABA. 


You will need more and more alcohol to maintain your health. However, since alcohol is a toxic substance after all, if you habitually drink excessively like this, the excessive alcohol destroys the brain nerves little by little, causing temporary memory loss and violent tendencies. If you drink more alcohol, your brain nerves will be really destroyed, and if you don't drink, hallucinations, dementia, and paranoia will occur all at once.


From a social point of view, drinking is regarded as the basic in the formation of human relationships and social activities due to the climate, and it is not continuously advertised as harmful as cigarettes . As alcohol dependence increases, aggressive tendencies and impulsive behaviors appear.


For personal reasons, drinking alcohol to forget about mental illness, physical pain, and stress in interpersonal relationships. In fact , patients with psychiatric disorders such as depression , bipolar disorder , obsessive compulsive disorder , antisocial personality disorder , schizophrenia , anger control disorder , and PTSD are often alcohol dependent, and alcohol can cause illness or accelerate pre-existing illness. . In the case of these patients, anxiety and fear improve when they drink alcohol, but after waking up, severe feelings of shame and previously felt feelings are revived along with a hangover, repeating the vicious cycle of seeking alcohol again. It is a bonus that the pain becomes more and more painful as the disease progresses.


Symptoms

Dependence symptom types include drinking alcohol every day, or binge drinking at a set time interval. Usually, there are more people who binge drink, but people who drink binge tend to think, 'I don't drink every day, so I'm not dependent'. However , the medical community diagnoses binge drinking as a much more severe alcohol dependence. Drinking a lot of alcohol at once is not because you like alcohol, but because you want to feel drunk. If you don't have strong self-control, your binge drinking cycle may be shorter, making it more dangerous in the long run.





However, it can be seen that the daily drinker is more difficult to quit than the binge drinker because drinking itself is a habit. The binge drinkers have to overcome the temptation to drink regularly over a long period of time, but those who have a habit of drinking every day have to overcome the temptation every day, even if the amount is small. In particular, if you have a habit of 'accompaniment with meals', it becomes really difficult not to drink alcohol. Like Pavlov's dog , every meal reminds me of alcohol . This trend is also seen in cigarettes .

 More precisely, they pretend to admit it, and in reality they don't. In technical terms, it is also called 'superficial recognition'. The reason is simple, alcohol dependence has almost no disadvantages when admitting it like gambling and drug addiction.