cases, for example wine protects people from heart attacks.However, if you get used to drink
alcohol, you can easily abuse.Alcoholism happens when someone engages in frequent alcohol
abuse.As time goes on, alcohol starts to alter chemical makeup of brain, resulting in user to
depend on alcohol so as to feel good.In the end, their body starts to crave alcohol in order to
function properly and alcoholism comes to person with many damages.An addiction to
alcohol can have destructive and irreversible effects on a person's health which we can
classify as physical, psychological and economic.
The initial effects of alcoholism are the physical ones.These are the most important,
because these can bring about your death.For instance, alcohol abuse affects the nervous
system and then lead to permanent brain illnesses which are dementia and
Alzheimer.Furthermore, an abuse of alcohol over a number of years has been linked to
developing cancers such as liver, colon, throat and breast cancer.Besides, alcohol is a toxin
which affects all body cells and tissues.According to the Jerry Kennard from Men's
Health, uncontrollable drinking gives rise to crucial health difficulties (1996).Also Jerry
Kennard stated that “Each year more than 100.000 Americans die of alcohol-related
causes.” (1996). All these physical effects make your life expectancy decrease and cause your
premature death.
The second results caused by alcoholism are psychological.At first alcohol makes you
feel relaxed, but if you keep drinking more and more times, it increases anxiety and causes
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depression.It also changes your behaviors and you may have some complications with your
family and social circle.For example, a drunk man may use violence to even his wife or
daughter due to have a blackout which is caused from