Dipsomania: Drinking Without Control
It is a form of alcoholism in the alternating periods of prolonged abstinence with other excessive and uncontrolled consumption of alcohol. Often associated with accidents and acts of violence, which represents a significant risk.
Alcoholism or addiction to the consumption of alcoholic beverages is a widespread social phenomenon and alarming in recent decades, so much so that a large number of statistical studies have shown that this dependence is related, worldwide, with nearly half of the traffic accidents, 15 to 20% of workplace injuries and about 50% of homicides.
As if this were not enough, uncontrollable alcohol intake is associated with a wide spectrum of physical problems (malnutrition and damage to liver, heart, brain and digestive system), mental (depression, anxiety and aggressiveness), labor (low efficiency and loss employment) and socioeconomic (in addition to money spent on drinks should be noted the breakdown of families and the enormous costs involved in consultations and hospitalizations), all without mentioning that, unfortunately, its incidence is increasing, especially among the population young.
Experts believe that there are two types of alcohol dependence, a psychological, more related to emotional problems and relationship that the addict has suffered throughout his life, and a physical that revealed, among other things, because the when the person stops drinking alcohol introduces the “withdrawal syndrome”, characterized by tremors in the fingers, tongue and extremities, sweating, tachycardia (rapid pulse), anxiety, irritability, nausea, vomiting, poor appetite, insomnia and even visual or auditory hallucinations (delirium).
It should also be noted that within the physical dependence on alcohol are two different ways of drinking, a continuous, in which the patient often needs to consume alcoholic beverages or daily, and other episodic dipsomania in alternating stages relatively prolonged abstinence (may last a week or more) with severe relapses.
credit to: Sofia Montoya
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