Drug & Alcohol Awareness

Addiction is a complex disease to understand. It can affect the brain and the body and you can be addicted to a substance or an activity. There have been suggestions that addiction can be genetic. It can cause harm to your families, ruin relationships and put jobs in danger.

Alcoholism is the addiction to consuming alcohol and the inability to manage how much of it you are having. Alcoholism is the dependency of alcohol and often feeling like they can not go without it and suffers will often put it above everything else in their life. As drinking can be used as a social tool, alcoholism may not always seem as obvious as drug addiction because it can hide in plain sight.

Alcoholism refers to the addiction to alcohol, so alcoholism is a form of addition.

Here are some of the psychological, social and physical signs: Psychological:

• Addiction itself is a psychological issue which results in the inability to stop using
• Ignoring health problems
• A coping mechanism
• Obsessions
• Taking risks with health and personal safety

Social:

• Priorities change – not being to participate in social things because of their addiction
• Dropping hobbies
• Solitude & secrecy
• Denial
• Financial problems
• Problems with the law

Physical:

• Withdrawal symptoms – shivering, cravings, constipation, seizures, sweating and violence
• Losing weight
• Damage to the body and possible diseases
• Insomnia