Is alcoholism a disease? What are the most common causes for alcoholism?

The disease theory about alcoholism is up for debate. I and a lot of other people feel the not only in alcoholism a disease it is a progressive disease and a hereditary disease. We are born as addicts and as our life progresses so does the disease and the side effects of having it.

Myself having a ton of experience dealing with and counseling alcoholics and being an alcoholic in recovery I have seen firsthand how this disease runs in families. Many alcoholics will say expressively "Alcoholism does not run in my family it tramples right through it" and it does. More than 90% of the alcoholics I know come from alcoholic families.

I do not need a scientific study to see what is going on there. I feel that alcoholism is a disease, a hereditary disease, and some people are born with a genetic predisposition to being addicted to something. What decides the substance or behavior that a person will become addicted to will be the environment that addict encounters in their life.

Many kids are exposed to nicotine and alcohol at very young ages and sometimes like in a car or home with nicotine or alcohol in the slipped glass of wine on holiday or an alcohol laden cold medicine given to the child by the parents.. the exposure is not or might not be by choice but that exposure is the catalyst. If the exposure is not by choice or it is by choice is almost irrelevant and once the body gets the substance within the blood and brain the progression of the disease begins. Like being born with a predisposition to having cancer, if one never encounters a catalyst to begin the progression of the cancer that person might never get cancer and so it goes with alcoholism.

One might be born with a predisposition to being an alcoholic but the disease might or might not progress depending on environment and exposure. That exposure to alcohol could be any exposure at any age. First exposure can be at 15 or 50 if one is going to be an alcoholic that first cup will do to set the disease progression in motion.

Causes? - Heredity - Social factors - Family/Upbringing factors - Environmental/Exposure factors - Long term consumption of alcohol will cause physical dependence on alcohol. Physical dependence is usually preceded by its invisible cousin mental dependence.

Put physical dependence on alcohol and mental dependence on alcohol together and you get alcoholism. If you would like to learn how to best help your loved one in trouble please please please attend a few.. well more than a few Al-Anon meetings and get active and get yourself a sponsor. Your sponsor will work with you in dealing with your experience with alcoholism from an outside standpoint.

Folks in Al-Anon are there to learn more about the disease of alcoholism and support each other in fighting the disease in their loved ones. Recovery rates are very low with alcoholism. Most alcoholics will have life long health issues as a result of the disease and will most likely die of these issues even long long after entering recovery and being sober for extended periods of time.

The damage we cause to all the systems in the body and mind are grave and extensive. Recovery is a daily and lifelong struggle physically, mentally, and spiritually. Some folks might disagree with this answer maybe even vote it unhelpful but I assure you and everyone as myself an alcoholic in recovery and the son of a son of the son of an alcoholic that this is as close to the truth as we are in understanding the progressive disease of alcoholism.

I have lived this all of my life. I literally watched my father die and his father die of the disease and would not try to ever mislead anyone about the disease. My only mission in life is to help those in need of help with alcoholism.

Alcoholism is definately a disease. It is a progressive disease that starts out with being a problem, then becomes alcohol abuse and then goes on to dependency. It has the ability to take control of your life and when you get to the point of dependency you neglect other things and it will probably affect your life with legal problems and other negative effects.

But yet they continue to drink and at this stage their life revolves around activities that always include alcohol. I will say it is a disease due to the fact that when someone like this stops they have withdrawl symptoms. They will have the shakes, even in the morning before their first drink, and some will move on to DT's.

I think we have all heard a person say I'll never drink again after a rough night but yet they do. Alcohol is also a drug that builds up a tolerance and people with high tolerances can seem normal even with high blood alcohol levels. This is why you see a person getting a DUI with a blood test three times the legal limit.

They have levels of tolerance that provides them the ability to even be awake at that level. There is no medical cure for alcoholism but only ways to stay away from it through programs.

Looking for the causes of alcoholism is the job of medical researchers and those who believe they may have a predisposition to alcoholism (therefore thy can make an educated choice to avoid alcohol altogether). However, if an individual is already an alcoholic then looking for the causes of alcoholism is not going to do any good in the short term - quit drinking first, then look for causes. If you don't stop drinking, then looking for causes for your alcoholism is counter-productive i.e.

You start blaming people, places and events for your drinking and.....then drink more out of resentment.

Yes Alcoholism also known as alcohol dependence, is a disease that includes the following four symptoms. Thanks!

Get one and have hours of fun looking up the meanings of words for yourself.

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