| Chronic alcoholism is a serious medical condition that | | | | alcoholic beverages has taken over the individual. To |
| can be lethal if left unchecked. It is spread over three | | | | the alcoholic, consuming alcoholic drinks is equal to or |
| stages. Alcoholics may recover safely and with | | | | more important than eating meals or drinking water. |
| minimal bodily harm in the first two stages. If still | | | | They exhibit extreme physical withdrawal symptoms. |
| allowed to further worsen into end stage alcoholism, | | | | Work, finance, family, and social relations will have |
| or the last and worst stage, the excessive amounts | | | | seriously deteriorated. The liver is unable to do its |
| alcohol in the body can claim the life of the alcoholic in | | | | work of filtering harmful toxins. The alcoholic will have |
| a painful death. | | | | been suffering from cirrhosis of the liver. He is also |
| Alcoholism is primarily characterized by an increasing | | | | now undernourished. Organs that digest food and |
| frequency and a gradual rise in the amount of alcohol | | | | transmit important nutrients are damaged, affecting |
| consumption and dependence. In early stage | | | | the heart and the brain. These organs will be unable |
| alcoholism, alcoholic drinks provide an individual with a | | | | to recover if alcohol intake is continuous. Thus, this |
| soothing sensation that lightens his mood, or an | | | | last stage is fatal. |
| escape from an emotional crash. Middle stage | | | | Dementia caused by alcohol is one of the symptoms |
| alcoholism depicts the alcoholic as losing control of | | | | of this final stage. Memory loss, mental confusion, |
| how much is his alcohol intake in order to feed his | | | | psychomotor difficulties, and mind and body |
| imagined need. Alcohol consumption has begun to pick | | | | coordination is affected. Liver, heart, and brain |
| up and there is an increase in regularity. The liver is | | | | damage are irreversible. Still, alcoholics at end stage |
| now starting to be overwhelmed in breaking down | | | | alcoholism can be treated, albeit permanent injuries |
| the increased amount of alcohol. Alcohol has started | | | | will remain. End stage alcoholics who will recover |
| to affect other organs as well. | | | | cannot go back to a normal and full life. |
| End stage alcoholism is where the craving to drink | | | | |