Alcoholic drinks have been of different variations. Despite variations, alcoholic drinks will always be part of every culture. It will always be a major part of every culture. We celebrate victories, birthdays and even small conversation with our old pals over a couple of bottles of beer. It’s no harm. The purpose is for socializing. Parties won’t be a success if not for those comfort drinks. It has been innate in us to like and engage into drinking alcoholic drinks. Alcoholic drinks are even genetically predisposed for us to consume as suggested by evolutionary psychology. On the time of the hunter-gatherer age, the age where ancestors’ main job is hunting and gathering, people have already been exposed to these alcoholic drinks, not in a form of drink but in the form of fruits. Being born with a sweet tooth, we form a liking on what we tasted. With the evolution of time, we learned to like odd tastes. Thus, the preference for the wide variety of alcoholic drinks.
When it comes to alcohol intake, people have differences in terms of ingestion. Every alcohol addicts varies on the frequency of drinking alcohol. If to be categorized, drinkers, there is the class ranging from light, moderate to heavy drinker. If you go on asking people on what category or range they belong, some people would say they are light drinker, coz they drink very infrequently and in a very light volume. Moderate drinker on the other hand, are those people who describe themselves as those who drink in order to socialize and drinks in an average volume and mostly when there is an occasion. Meanwhile, heavy drinkers are people who feast on drinks on a heavy amount and volume, and does not care or keep tabs on how much they have already consumed. Heavy drinkers have become, people who drink not to socialize, but they are people who socialize to drink. It has been a method that delights them. Ingesting large amounts of alcoholic drinks is pleasant to them. Alcohol addiction would sooner set in.
According to the Webster dictionary, alcohol addiction is defined as the continuous excessive and compulsive taking of alcoholic drinks that could become a chronic disorder which could lead to psychological and physical dependence or addiction.
Too much of something is bad. Moderation is really the key. Alcohol is not really a bad drink. Studies have even found uses, benefits and advantage to this considered “common plague” to mankind. According to studies, if just used right, alcohol could be used to save lives, and not waste lives. But for the case of alcohol addicts, they just make use of alcohol to the extent. Vast quantities of alcohol is being taken in. This is a very sad case because alcohol creates tolerance. And worst, their quantity intake increases over time. A small amount would no longer do.
The victims of alcohol addiction is never chosen. Males, females and even babies inside a womb, can be a victim. Alcohol addiction will even become a big dilemma addiction because it will be a hard habit to break. Trying to get away from it would result to you becoming easily irritated, moody and worst of all abusive.
Alcohol addiction will not only get you into a fight, it will also make you dysfunctional. All of your time, you will be busy contemplating about your craving and urge to take in alcohol. Once you get your hands on a bottle of beer, you will start to lose control. You will soon demand for more and stopping would be difficult. Over time, you will be physically dependent to alcohol; you will feel nauseated, anxious and shaky if you will try to stop drinking. As a result, you will have the need to drink greater amounts to get high again.
Alcohol addiction is a never ending cycle. Without intervention, you will be trapped in it.
