What are the causes of alcohol dependence?

For some alcoholics, uncontrolled drinking has become a very common thing, and even if you don't drink, you will have panic and hand tremors, and you can't control the desire to drink to bring great pain to your body and mind.

What are the differences between normal drinking and alcohol dependence, in the most popular terms, normal drinking is to drink as much as you want, and don't drink if you don't want to, but once you become dependent on alcohol, you can't stop drinking even if you want to. Alcohol dependence is a long-term, large amount of alcohol after the formation of psychological and physiological reactions, or the patient's heart is always obsessed with alcohol, the formation of a kind of addiction, and after stopping drinking, the body will feel very uncomfortable, there will be withdrawal reaction, can also be called physical dependence, such as palpitation, hand tremors, sweating, increased blood pressure, increased heart rate, tremors, etc., only drinking can be relieved.

Mild alcohol dependence will be manifested as feeling uncomfortable after stopping drinking, wanting to drink, and slightly tremor, while more serious alcohol dependence will have obvious tremors, sweating and other withdrawal reactions, and even tremor and delirium tremors that are unconscious, unable to distinguish between east and west, north and south, and not recognizing relatives. There is also an increase in tolerance, for example, the amount of alcohol consumed from the beginning of 1 tael of liquor, gradually increased to 2 taels, 3 taels can be satisfied, or the degree of alcohol increases, the original can only drink beer and other low-alcohol liquor, and slowly develop into a must drink liquor and other high-alcohol liquor.

What are the psychological factors brought about by alcohol dependence, people often talk about borrowing alcohol to drown their sorrows, patients with alcohol dependence usually have relatively negative emotions, and they can make their mood happy for a short time by drinking, reduce the anxiety in their hearts, and it will lead to every time they are depressed, they will temporarily solve the problems in their hearts through drinking, which forms a positive reinforcement, that is, strengthening the good feelings brought by drinking, so that drinking has become a fixed mode of alleviating bad emotions. There is also a negative reinforcement response, when the patient has a withdrawal reaction, drinking alcohol can temporarily relieve the pain, and in order to prevent the body from this uncomfortable situation, it is necessary to continue drinking.

How to get rid of alcohol dependence for people who quit drinking, it is recommended to stop drinking when quitting drinking, to see if their body is uncomfortable, if they find that they have withdrawal reactions, they can go to the hospital to seek help from a doctor, and take diazepam drugs according to the doctor's instructions. Patients come to the hospital at least once a week to facilitate the doctor's observation of the condition and timely adjustment of medication. If the condition is serious, you should choose to be hospitalized, and in the hospital, you will generally take a closed **, and in the acute stage, the patient should immediately stop drinking, take drugs to replace addiction**, and so on.

As a family member, we should first understand that alcohol dependence is a relatively difficult brain disease to treat, and we should give more encouragement and support to help patients vent their negative emotions.

The first reason is physical dependence.

Some people's dependence on alcohol is inherited because there is an enzyme in his body that is particularly active about promoting alcohol absorption, so once he drinks alcohol, he becomes addicted, leading to alcohol dependence.

In addition, many socials in society now need to drink, and they feel that it will be easier to talk about work after drinking at the wine table, so they instinctively rely on alcohol.

If you drink alcohol regularly, it will cause chronic alcoholism, damage the central nervous system, and reduce your ability to distinguish things, so you will also feel that alcohol is a good thing, and you will become dependent on alcohol.

The second reason is psychological dependence.

Most people in society are under a lot of pressure, for example, young people who have just entered the society may want to numb themselves through alcohol because of the blow in the workplace or unsatisfactory love, so as to get spiritual relief.

No matter what age a person is, if they are depressed or have encountered something unhappy, the first way to think of is to rely on alcohol to drown their sorrows, which is an instinctive escape from things, and then develop a dependence on alcohol.

1: Psychological factors. People who are depressed, shy, anxious, nervous, and unsociable, who drink alcohol in order to overcome these defects, are prone to alcohol dependence over time.

2: Social factors. Regions, ethnicities, customs, environments, occupations, and public and ** attitudes towards alcohol must have an impact on the occurrence of alcohol dependence.

There may be something addictive in him, some people have the first time and the second time, they think it can anesthetize people's nerves, relieve pain, or bring happiness, which is also what lazy people rely on, and hard-working people can find other ways to vent.

The symptoms of alcohol dependence are clinically divided into two categories, the first is psychological symptoms, anxiety, irritability, impulsivity, and sleeplessness after stopping alcohol or sudden arrest, and the second is physical symptoms, manifested as tremors, sweating, nausea, vomiting, etc., some people may have typical seizures after stopping alcohol for a period of time.

(1) The craving for alcohol and the compulsive experience of often needing to drink.

2) There will be withdrawal symptoms after stopping drinking, such as anxiety, unpleasantness, depression, accompanied by nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, chills, sweating, palpitations, pulse frequency, hypertension and other autonomic symptoms. There may also be sleep disturbances, such as nightmares, light sleep, difficulty falling asleep, etc. Tremor is a typical symptom of withdrawal in alcohol-dependent individuals, usually occurring 7 to 8 hours after abstinence.

Chronic patients often wake up in the morning with tremor of the middle finger and eyelids, and in severe cases, they cannot chew and stand unsteadily. Delirium tremens, which usually occurs 72 to 96 hours after abstinence, is one of the symptoms of late withdrawal.

3) After resuming drinking, the withdrawal symptoms disappear.

4) The behavior of alcohol-dependent persons, regardless of time and place, drinking a large amount of alcohol in a short period of time, and the amount of alcohol can exceed 150ml of pure alcohol per day, and repeatedly declare that they have quit drinking without interruption. There are also long-term dependents who drink alcohol, get drunk, fall asleep, wake up, drink alcohol, get drunk, fall asleep, and repeat this drinking period.

5) Alcohol dependence tolerance: the original amount of alcohol cannot achieve the expected effect, and the dosage must be increased in order to achieve it. Tolerance to wine increases slowly and to a moderate degree.

It usually reaches an average high level in young adults, and then becomes less tolerant with increasing toxicity and age. In old age, there are no consecutive episodes of drinking.

Generally long-term heavy drinking for about 10 years will develop into alcohol dependence, for alcohol dependents, in addition to their physical needs, their psychological dependence on alcohol has also formed a dependence, when they form a dependence, they can give up everything, including their career, family and dignity, just for the sake of alcohol to live.

What is Alcohol Dependence? If you have these 4 symptoms, most likely you are already addicted to alcohol.