In the central nervous system, alcohol is involved in various processes. Those in which certain nerve cells are asked to activate or excite. It also stimulates the processes by which certain nerve cells reduce their activity. In this way, alcohol acts as a biochemical inhibitor. This is not specific to the activity of the central nervous system. This is why the effects of alcohol include relaxation or reducing anxiety. Alcohol, as a legal drug, is a sedative of the central nervous system. It works in many areas of the body: alcohol, although legal, is still dangerous to people`s health and can cause disorder and even addiction due to alcohol abuse. There are many people who struggle with their alcohol addiction, need drug treatment, or visit rehab centers for recovery. In society, we believe that alcohol consumption (beer, wine, hot water, etc.) is normal and many people cannot determine when addiction begins to become alcoholism. However, there doesn`t seem to be much point in regulating alcohol advertising, easy access, or even spreading myths without scientific support, such as the fact that a glass of wine a day doesn`t harm anyone.
Based on a positive response, parents should suspect that something is not working well and the child is at risk of alcohol. Keep in mind that the larger the positive responses, the greater the risk. Of course, in any case, an open dialogue between parents and children is recommended as the best prevention strategy. For this reason, a substance that has long been legal and socially legitimate can quickly become a controlled and illegal substance, depending on the social and cultural context, except in certain cases of therapeutic use. That`s why Bayer sold heroin in Spanish pharmacies a century ago. Opium and morphine were legal in the United States until 1914. And marijuana until 1937. The apparent normality of brain functions is the result of the body`s tolerance to the substance; It masks an underlying neurochemical change that only manifests itself when alcohol consumption is abruptly stopped. If you consume alcohol frequently, it can lead to the following: Alcohol is the drug that has the most negative impact on the well-being of individuals and society in general.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), addiction is a physical and psycho-emotional illness that creates an addiction or need for a substance, activity or relationship. What are drugs? The WHO defines a drug as “any substance introduced into the living organism can alter one or more of its functions by altering thoughts, emotions, perceptions and behaviors in a direction that makes it desirable to repeat the experiment and can cause mechanisms of tolerance and dependence.” Alcohol and tobacco as a “legal drug”? Both are the cause of the highest number of preventable deaths today. The main difference between tobacco and alcohol and other social drugs such as marijuana and cocaine is the ease of their acquisition. Alcohol is a sedative of the central nervous system, has a greater number of addicts, because the drinks that contain it enjoy great social acceptance, and its consumption is deeply rooted in our culture. The ethyl alcohol contained in beverages is produced during the fermentation of sugars by yeasts and causes intoxication. Recently, there has been an increased interest in the problem of alcohol consumption, as it is now the most demanded drug, partly due to the great development of the beverage manufacturing industry, which has increased its availability. Every day, different types of drinks arrive on the market, which are advertised through all media and whose prices make them accessible to everyone, even those with low purchasing power. Moreover, if we consider that alcohol is attributed symbolic values to replace economic and psychosocial deficits such as “prestige”, “security” or “affection” or that a certain social position is acquired, then the problem becomes more and more complicated and becomes the result of the interaction between the individual and society. Is alcoholism a disease? One of the earliest references to the concept of alcoholism as a disease is found in Seneca in ancient Rome, which distinguished between a drunk (intoxicated) person and a person who seems to have no control over repetitive episodes of (dependent) drunkenness. In fourteenth-century England, Chaucer came to conclusions similar to those of Seneca. Both viewed alcoholism as a qualitatively different condition from excessive alcohol consumption.
In the late eighteenth century, Benjamin Rush in the United States defined “habitual drunkenness” as an involuntary condition, a disease caused by “spirits.” From his writings, three ideas about the disease are identified: As we see, alcoholism requires treatment to recover. The goal of restorative treatment is to give the addict the tools to cope with any situation they encounter in life without resorting to drug use. It is common knowledge that the popular claim, according to which the drinker drinks to forget. The depression of the central nervous system creates a priori a relaxed state. This condition allows the addict to get away from his worries. One of them is the root of their problem. By not stopping consuming alcohol, you stimulate this nerve network; The intake required by one`s own body must therefore be higher. The way alcohol is drunk plays an important role in the occurrence of damage associated with this substance, especially in case of poisoning. Alcohol use can affect not only the incidence of diseases, injuries and other health disorders, but also their outcome and development over time.
