Category:Alcoholism: Difference between revisions

Alcoholism is an addiction to alcohol which borders on being at once a disease and a madness. Alcoholics are fixated to the point of obsession on the consumption of alcohol, have an impaired capacity to control this consumption, are undetered by its consequences, and are unable to think clearly and act in their own best interests in respect to it. The centrality of alcohol to an alcoholic's existence may be continual or e

is obsessed with the consumption of alcohol, has impaired control over his or her consumption of alcohol, and

little resistance to

has an impaired to resist taking ability to think clearly and to act in his or her own best interests, particular.

has impairedcontrol over his or her drinking.

At least a degree of intoxication is, ideally, a nigh permanent state for alcoholics. They enjoy a capacity to cope with quantities of alcohol and with their intoxication which less practiced drinkers do not usually share. Consequently, their nigh constant intoxication is often not, at least in the short term, incapacitating or even by itself impairing. Nonetheless, the [addiction]] itself is a constant impairment. Their intoxication or drunkenness, but not their addiction, may be ended with a neutralize poison spell.

“Alcoholism is a primary chronic disease with genetic, psychosocial and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. The disease is often progressive and fatal. It is characterized by impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking, mostly denial. Each of these symptoms may be continuous or periodic.”