ARTICLE #3 (WRITING)

Article # 3

Alcoholism

     Alcoholism is as old as humanity. Alcoholism is a disease and affects many people around the world and includes many young people. It not only affects the alcoholic, but also to family and friends who result very affected by this problem. According to Webster (n.d.) alcoholism is:

Excessive or compulsive use of alcoholic drinks, a chronic, a progressive, potentially fatal disorder marked by excessive and usually compulsive drinking of alcohol leading to psychological and physical dependence or addiction. Alcoholism is typically characterized by the inability to control alcoholic drinking, impairment of the ability to work and socialize, tendency to drink alone and engage in violent behavior, neglect of physical appearance and proper nutrition, alcohol-related illness (such as hepatitis or cirrhosis of the liver), and moderate to severe withdrawal symptoms (such as irritability, anxiety, tremors, insomnia, and confusion) upon detoxification (para. 1).

     The alcoholism is dangerous; it causes work issues, family issues and social problems, but also there are many health problems attributed to alcohol such as fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, hypertension, cardiovascular disease stroke, liver cirrhosis, several types of cancer and infections pancreatitis, type 2 diabetes and others. In addition to this, the terrible thing about this is that many young people are drinking alcohol. According to National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism [NIAAA], (2005) “made a study which showed that alcohol abuse can start as early as 8^th grader.”

      All that it is very sad because many people are alcoholism and getting out of this is very difficult. So, it’s important that the person accepts that has an illness, there are hope for the alcoholic; they can look for support groups such as AA. So, the person will feel good when decide change.