The Alcoholic

Alcohol addiction is a serious problem that can wreck relationships, careers, and destroy lives. Many household and domestic instances of violence are alcohol-related, because alcohol increases aggression and lowers the ability to think logically.

Alcohol can easily bring about an addiction. Child abuse is often a result of alcohol addiction, if there are children in the family. Also, women who have an addiction to alcohol have the risk of causing their child to have birth defects or possible early delivery or miscarriage. Alcohol is a dangerous substance when abused, and it can be difficult to see someone close fall to it.Alcohol also can cause auto accidents. When someone gets behind the wheel of a car and is drunk, the con’t have the ability to see everything, nor do they have the ability to react to stimuli in time, such as stopping. Alcohol also makes people more likely to take risks when driving, like speeding, following another car too closely or engaging in horseplay on the road. Alcohol abuse can cause a person to not take into account the danger they could pose to others, only the fact that they need another drink. The worse part is that they don’t know if the alcohol has had an effect on their brains, so are a danger without even knowing.

There are over 22 million people in the United States that have a drug abuse or substance abuse problem. This amounts to a little less than 10% of the entire nation, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration for the year 2006.
Alcohol abuse is also a significant problem in America, because there are nearly 14 million people who meet the commonly accepted criteria for alcohol use disorders., as reported by Alcohol Health & Research World. In fact, more than 100,000 U.S. deaths have been caused by excessive alcohol consumption every year. Some of the causes of death are alcohol poisoning, cirrhosis of the liver, stroke or drunk driving-related accidents.
 

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