Signs of Alcohol Addiction

Submitted on: June 28, 2010 by neha

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Are you a worried woman thinking about ways to find out if your husband or your teenager is indulging in excessive drinking or not?

If yes, then given below are some tips by which you can recognize an alcoholic person.

An alcoholic person displays sudden change in behavior as an alcoholic starts preferring loneliness and isolation. In addition, a person who indulges in excessive drinking adopts an aggressive and a violent behavior. Such people often remain intoxicated and display bouts of anger and frequent mood swings. Alcohol is thus a major cause of domestic and social violence.

You will always find an alcoholic person drinking when he is stressed or tensed. An alcoholic person slowly starts getting aloof from social circles and prefers living in isolation.

You can easily recognize an alcoholic person from his physical appearance. An alcohol seldom pays attention to his physical appearance and thus remains shabbily dressed. In addition, an alcoholic person often trembles a lot and has unstable and shaky hands and feet.

Alcohol adversely affects control and coordination of a person. Thus, an alcoholic person can be recognized by his impaired motor skills. Such people are thus prone to accidents as they lack control over the actions, especially after excessive intake of alcohol.

When a person becomes addicted to alcohol, he finds it extremely difficult to stay away from drinking as he can suffer from withdrawal symptoms such as tremors and seizures.

An alcoholic person suffers from reduced appetite and thus often tends to skip meals. Since alcohol is an addiction, you will find an alcoholic always making excuses to drink.  Such people secretly drink.

In extreme cases, an alcoholic person can also adopt wrong means to get money to buy and drink alcohol. Thus, alcohol is a social evil that gives birth to crime.

Alcohol addiction also makes a person suffer from insomnia and blackouts. Such people also suffer from memory impairment and thus become forgetful.

Along with the above mentioned signs of alcohol addiction, alcohol also adversely affects the health of a person. It makes a person vulnerable to various medical problems such as liver disorders, hypertension, heart diseases, and others.

One should try to recognize the signs of alcohol addiction early on in a person so that effective steps can be taken to help a person overcome the problem of alcohol addiction.





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