Get Rid Of Your Alcohol Addiction Free
I have listed some basic informations about alcohol addiction
which can help you to understand and get rid of alcohol addiction
in my website
Ethanol or ethyl alcohol is a sedative-hypnotic drug that acts on the human
brain like other sedative-hypnotic drugs such as the barbiturates and
benzodiazepine tranquilizers(Valium, Xanax, Ativan &etc.). All of these drugs
can substitute for one another and prevent withdrawal symptoms from each other.
Thus benzodiazepine tranquilizers are commonly used briefly to treat severe
alcohol withdrawal.
Ethyl alcohol, like other sedative-hypnotic drugs in its class, can cause
physical dependence in anyone who consumes enough of it for a sufficient period
of time. The withdrawal syndrome from ethyl alcohol is identical to that for
other drugs in the same class such as Valium, Librium, Xanax, Ativan,
phenobarbital and other barbiturates(Nembutal, Seconal, Amytal &etc.).
Individuals who have been regularly exposed to any of these drugs may develop
the following physical symptoms upon abrupt discontinuation or drastic
reduction of dosage:
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Anxiety, restlessness, irritability and insomnia
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Elevated blood pressure, temperature, pulse and respiration
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Confusion, hypervigilance and disorientation
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Visual and auditory hallucinations, acute psychotic behavior
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Grand mal seizures
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Infrequently, sudden death
Physical dependence and withdrawal symptoms from sedative-hypnotic drugs such
as alcohol will develop in anyone exposed to the drug long enough, regularly
enough and in a sufficient dosage if intake is suddenly curtailed.
Addiction refers to a complex behavioral syndrome including abnormal importance
of the drug or activity; use of the drug or activity to an extreme and often
harmful degree; continued use or activity despite negative consequences;
psychological defenses of denial, rationalization, minimization and projection
of blame; and personality changes and life disruption as a consequence of use
or activity.
Anyone can and will become physically dependent upon sedative-hypnotic drugs
under the right circumstances of dose, duration and discontinuation. Only a
small minority of psychologically and physiologically predisposed individuals
will become addicted in the sense just described. Physical dependence is easily
dealt with by a gradual reduction of dosage which avoids withdrawal symptoms;
individuals manifesting the behavioral syndrome of addiction instead or
decreasing escalate their drug or alcohol use, disregard medical advice, and
consume quantities of their preferred substance far in excess of normal,
conventional or even safe amounts, often indulging at times or in places that
non-addicts would never think of doing. An addict is someone for whom a
particular substance or activity has become harmfully important and who
manifests rigid, repetitive and stereotypic behavior in pursuit of a substance
or activity or both despite clear indications that he is harming himself and
often others by doing so.
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