Essay On Alcoholic Dementia
Alcoholic dementia is a silent epidemic, it’s cause is excessive drinking. This type of dementia goes undiagnosed and confused with other types of dementia. Alcoholic dementia is a lack of vitamin B1 and is detrimental to one’s health, especially in the aging population. Alcohol induced dementia is treatable and possibly reversible; even so, it is avoidable if drinking in moderation.
Dementia is a loss of mental ability severe enough to interfere with everyday life (Alzheimer’s Association. N.D.). Dementia makes it difficult to learn new things also personality changes can take place. Many types of dementia have similar effects, but they have different causes among them alcoholic dementia. Excessive drinking causes Alcohol induced dementia, it is under diagnosed and confused with Alzheimer’s disease, other forms of dementia or getting older. Research is still out on how much is too much, some people seem affected by much less …show more content…
Binge drinking is having four or more drinks (women) or five or more drinks (men) during one occasion in the last month, while chronic drinking is having eight or more drinks for women or 15 or more drinks a week for men according to the CDC. Last year 17.7% of adults in the United States and 21.8% in Montana admit excessive drinking. Excessive drinking is most common in 18-44 year old’s (CDC. 2016). According to Michael Cummins (2014), the executive director of the Flathead Chemical Dependency Clinic; it is Montana’s isolation, lack of resources, and “work hard, play hard” mentality that makes many people drink heavily.
One binge can cause alcoholic dementia and it can affect anyone, however, the 50+ age group is more susceptible. With treatment, some of the effects of Alcoholic dementia disappear, however, alcoholic dementia is avoidable if drinking in moderation. Twenty percent of Montanan’s admit to binge drinking this dramatically increases their risk of alcoholic
Dementia is a loss of mental ability severe enough to interfere with everyday life (Alzheimer’s Association. N.D.). Dementia makes it difficult to learn new things also personality changes can take place. Many types of dementia have similar effects, but they have different causes among them alcoholic dementia. Excessive drinking causes Alcohol induced dementia, it is under diagnosed and confused with Alzheimer’s disease, other forms of dementia or getting older. Research is still out on how much is too much, some people seem affected by much less …show more content…
Binge drinking is having four or more drinks (women) or five or more drinks (men) during one occasion in the last month, while chronic drinking is having eight or more drinks for women or 15 or more drinks a week for men according to the CDC. Last year 17.7% of adults in the United States and 21.8% in Montana admit excessive drinking. Excessive drinking is most common in 18-44 year old’s (CDC. 2016). According to Michael Cummins (2014), the executive director of the Flathead Chemical Dependency Clinic; it is Montana’s isolation, lack of resources, and “work hard, play hard” mentality that makes many people drink heavily.
One binge can cause alcoholic dementia and it can affect anyone, however, the 50+ age group is more susceptible. With treatment, some of the effects of Alcoholic dementia disappear, however, alcoholic dementia is avoidable if drinking in moderation. Twenty percent of Montanan’s admit to binge drinking this dramatically increases their risk of alcoholic