Excessive drinking of alcohol over a long period of time making medical, psychological, and social problems is complications of alcoholism. Over the course of months or years of drinking, the central nervous system adapts to the alcohol and tolerance develops. Then the drinker requires more amounts of alcohol to receive the desired effect. Instead of thinking of the effects, the person usually continues to drink and will increase the amount they drink and the number of times. Over use they experience withdrawal symptoms, high blood pressure, tremors, physical dependence, can happen when they are not drinking.
This becomes to be a cycle of abuse, being at risk of dependence starts. Some complications of alcoholism are depression, low self-esteem, onset of puberty, relying on alcohol socially, emotional substitution, loneliness, and self-medicating.
There are medical complications of alcoholism they are: alcohol damages the organ systems even blood-forming (anemia, easy bruising), cardiovascular (abnormal heartbeat, heart failure, high blood pressure, increased heart rate), gastrointestinal (diarrhea, gastritis, inflammation and/or cancer of the esophagus), heightened risk of infectious diseases (TB), liver damage, low blood sugar, hepatitis, liver cancer, and ulcers.
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