How Does Alcohol Addiction Affect the Human Body?
Alcohol acts as a depressant on the central nervous system. Alcohol addiction or alcoholism is medically diagnosed as a disease which manifests by frequent use of alcohol, despite it’s negative influence on a person’s health. Alcohol reduces a one’s life by an average up to 10 years. Even if you are not addicted to alcohol, it nagative affects you physically. Alcohol is associated with cardiovascular disease and liver disease.
Alcohol addiction in the UK: according to the National Health Service statistics one in every 13 people in the UK is an alcoholic. Alcoholism in the USA: according to the National Institutes of Health 15% of Americans are problem drinkers, while between 5% to 10% of male and 3% to 5% of female drinkers could be diagnosed as alcohol dependent.
According to the the World Health Organization there are at least 140 million alcohol addicts in the world; unfortunately, the majority of them are not treated.
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