FINAL
PROJECT (WRITING ESSAY)
Alcohol
/ “Social Drinking”
Humanity has always
yielded to the pressure of different chemical substance that eventually caused
it irreparable damage. Finding the “cure” from the damage obtained was the next
step. And it seems that only now, when the number of the diseases caused by
different substances has reached its peak, people have finally understood that
the best “cure” is the prevention of any forms of substance abuse. Alcohol is
not the last one in the list of these destructive substances. It is the
“companion” of any significant event occurring in the life of modern people or
even an everyday way to relax and get away from all the difficulties. People
relax and forget that they are supposed to think not only about their health
but also about the health of the people around them. This especially concerns
woman, as they are the ones to deliver the next generation into the world. A
woman’s organism is a lot more influenced by any external chemical influences
and alcohol becoming woman’s frequent “companion” becomes a real threat for the
health of the nation. The contemporary medical world is very much concerned
with the female alcohol abuse phenomenon and the appearance of a group of
inclinations that both female and male abusers experience. Alcohol abuse is the
giant problem, which needs to be fixed desperately. It is very important to
understand its nature and the possible effects that it can make to the human
body.
Changes in The Human Organism
The changes that occur in the human organism for the
reason of alcohol abuse are terrible. The whole body is damaged and the person
stops being able to either move and think properly. The effect of alcohol
through out the period of human’s life is immense and even the lesser amount of
alcohol may cause some changes. These destructive processes, which occur inside
the organism, cause irreparable damage that it made on the genetic level. Even
“social drinking” causes changes in intellectual and behavior activity of
children. Heavy abuse, causing disorders has nowadays become unbelievably
widespread. All this changes throughout the period the development of the
alcohol dependency cause mental disabilities and severe changes in the human
body.
1. 1. Physical
Changes
Very often it is said that alcohol
heavy drinkers look the same. This happens because in the first place all of
them experience problems with their skin. As the vessels of the skin widen, the
blood flow to the person’s face become more intensive. This is the reason
people who drink alcohol have a flushed skin color and constantly feel that
they are hot. Another part of body that is directly damaged by alcohol is the
liver. This is primarily due to the fact that it is liver that works the most
to “clean” the organism from the chemicals in alcohol. When alcohol get to
blood in its turn damages the process of functioning of the liver cells and
some of them start dying.
2. 2. Mental
Changes
If a person constantly abuse
alcohol it will eventually lead to a set of permanent transformations in the
brain morphology. One of the most significant transformations concerns the
reduction of the total amount of brain tissue and the growing size of the
ventricles. The basic reason the body stops being able to produce brain tissue
to cope with the chemical is because it lacks natural vitamin that a healthy
body produces. Another reason because the body is deprived of vitamin is that
alcohol abusers often experience a problem of systematic eating and don’t
consume food at the required time., making the body weak and unable to resist
the alcohol effect. As the brain of a
person under alcohol dependency doesn’t have enough vitamins its turns out to
be the first step to the beginning of mental retardation. What happens to a
person is that he completely losses the ability to control his behavior, his
judgments become illogical and his ability to concentrate decreases
tremendously.
The consumption of
alcohol beverages has strongly entered the tradition of celebration any
significant events in the life of people. Anybody can hardly imagine
celebrating Christmas or birthday without a gulp of champagne. Seemingly, there
is nothing bad in that and nothing bad can happen after a gulp of champagne or
a gulp during a routing “social drinking”. But the reality is cruel. Therefore
even small doses of alcohol can do harm to a the human body. Most people don’t
understand the consequences alcohol abuse can have of their health nevertheless
the abuse occurs primarily because people don’t know the destructive power of
alcohol. The consequences of the alcohol abuse don’t decrease with time, though
specific manifestations change when doses of drinking become smaller. This
factors prevent people from proper social adaptation and therefore make their
life incomplete. Social impracticability of people suffering from the alcohol
abuse is one of major problems of the contemporary medical society. And the
only way to solve this problems is to prevent people from drinking alcohol an
any amounts. There is no cure a better than alcohol abstention.
1 women have lesser enzyme that known as alcohol
dehydrogenate and that is the reason about 30% more alcohol is absorbed into
their bloodstream than in men.
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