How much you need to drink to be considered an alcoholic

According to experts, among alcoholics often quite erroneously rank as those who do not actually suffer from alcoholism. It turns out that even if a person consumes a large amount of alcohol is obvious, it may be no dependence.
Diagnosing Alcoholism   on the basis of quantitative criteria is a very common mistake, experts say. While this disease is not determined amount of alcohol consumed and the presence of alcohol dependence. In humans, consuming alcohol, even in large quantities, can be present everyday drinking, but that does not make him an alcoholic. Sometimes, drinking large quantities people return to normal life without alcohol, experts remind. This fact indicates that the heavy drinkers are quite capable to do without drinking, but they usually do not arise such intentions. For alcoholic same characteristic is that he can not stop drinking, even if he wants it.

At the same time, doctors warn that regular consumption of alcoholic beverages can indeed lead to the development Alcoholism   both heavy and destructive dependence. Drinking from time to time, people may not notice how his body gradually develop tolerance, because of which the usual dose of alcohol that caused the intoxication, no longer gives the same effect, and it must be increased. Therefore, anyone who is not averse to occasionally sit at the bottle, physicians are advised to honestly assess how important this becomes a ritual.

To determine the degree of risk to help the following test:

I drink a little alcohol every day;
Last time I drank more than three glasses of vodka (glasses of wine, etc.);
I always drink more than others;
With great excitement and anxiety I feel better after drinking several glasses;
I get drunk on average once a week;
After the booze I feel confident;
The relatives advised me to drink less;
Recently, I often drink alone.

Two of affirmative answer - you are in "risk".
More than two - you should seriously think about how to reduce the use of alcohol.

Symptoms of alcohol dependence:

- System: a person drinks every Friday, monthly, every holiday;
- A person drinks to a state of extreme intoxication, and the next morning feeling unwell, which is a sign of intoxication;
- If you suddenly do not get a drink in the mode of its own system (on Friday for a holiday), there are unpleasant sensations in the form of fear, increased irritability;
- The sudden cessation of alcohol consumption in the mode of the system, there is tremor (trembling certain parts of the body or the whole body), delusions, hallucinations, suicidal thoughts. Life at this moment is perceived in shades of black, around begin to thicken paint, the perception of living escalates.

Treatment and prevention

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