Alcoholism is a chronic disease characterized by craving alcohol and continued drinking despite negative consequences. It involves both a physical dependence on alcohol and other genetic, psychological, and cultural factors. Symptoms include drinking alone, blackouts, withdrawal symptoms, and inability to control drinking. Effects include physiological harms like injuries, ulcers, and liver disease as well as psychological, social, and economic impacts. There are different subtypes and levels of alcoholism from hazardous drinking to physical dependence. Prevention strategies aim to reduce access and promote education, treatment, and support groups.

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2. What is Alcoholism?
• Alcoholism is a chronic, often progressive
disease in which a person craves alcohol and
drinks despite repeated alcohol related
problems (like losing a job or a relationship).
• Alcoholism involves a physical dependence on
alcohol, but other factors include genetic,
psychological, and cultural influences

3. ALCOHOL
• By pharmacological definition “alcohol
is a drug and may be classified as a
sedative , tranquilizer , hypnotic or
anesthetic , depending upon the
quantity consumed”.

4. SYMPTOMS
 Drinking by yourself or in secret
 Craving alcohol, in early hours
 Not being able to control the amount you drink
 Blackouts (not remembering events or
conversations)
 Becoming irritable when you can' t get a drink at
your regular time
 Having legal problems or an inability to sustain a
relationship or a job
 Withdrawal symptoms, such as nausea, sweating,
shakiness, and anxiety, when you stop drinking

5. EFFECTS:
1. PHYSIOLOGICAL
– ACCIDENT/ INJURIES

6. PEPTIC ULCER GASTRITIS

7. CANCER OF THE MOUTH, THROAT AND
ESOPHAGUS

8. LIVER CIRRHOSIS CANCER OF THE LIVER

9. EFFECTS:
2. PSCHOLOGICAL
• DEPENDENCE/ADDICTION

10. EFFECTS:
3. SOCIAL - family disintegration, poor work
performance, Anti social behavior,
poor interpersonal relation
4. ECONOMICAL - Poverty , wastage of national
wealth

11. TYPES OF ALCOHOLISM
1. Hazardous Drinking

12. 2. Binge Drinking

13. 3. Physical Dependence
Physically dependent drinkers have extremely high
tolerances to alcohol.

14. 4. Psychological Dependent
use alcohol to
induce a
desirable
mindset.

15. 5. Healthy and Social Drinking
They tend to drink for
heart health, special
occasions or to
supplement a meal.

16. DIFFERENT
KINDS
OF
ALCOHOLISM

17. 1. Compulsive Alcoholism
People who drink everyday until they are
completely drunk.

18. 2. Gregarious Alcoholism
These are people who drink as being part of a society or
drinking falls in their culture, particularly celebrities and college
students.

19. 3. Solipsist Alcoholism
are those who drink to get rid of daily stress but are
scared of being caught by their family or society since it
is not a part of their cultural norms.

20. 4. Regressive Alcoholism
are regular drinkers but are habitual of binge
drinking in alternate months.

21. 5. Emotional Alcoholism
• Similar to solipsistic
drinkers, emotional
alcoholics consume
alcohol as a means of
getting rid of their
fears and frustration.

22. 6. Reactive Alcoholism
• Often people undergo
severe and terrible
situations that make
them hopeless and
lifeless.

23. TYPES
OF
ALCOHOLICS

24. Young Adult Subtype
• adults who take to alcoholism by age 20, but
refuse to seek help or support for alcohol
addiction.

25. Young Antisocial Subtype
• These are
individuals who
have an average
age of 26 years,
who took to
alcoholism by the
age of 18.

26. Functional Subtype
• Stable middle-aged individuals who drink occasionally
(but in large amounts).

27. Intermediate Familial Subtype
• who become alcoholics by age 30. Most
have relatives who are also alcoholics.

28. Chronic Severe Subtype
• Most often such
drinkers are men, who
are also drug addicts..

29. ALCOHOL
COMPONENTS

30. • C2H5OH, Ethanol –
commonly used alcohol
• Ethanol has been
produced in the form of
fermented and distilled
alcoholic beverages.

31. • In industry, alcohols are produced in several ways
by fermentation using glucose produced from
sugar from the hydrolysis of starch, in the presence
of yeast and temperature of less than 37°C to
produce ethanol.

32. THE
CORE INGREDIENT
OF ALCOHOL

33. • Beer: malted cereal grain (as barley), flavored with hops
• Brandy: distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice
• Cognac: a brandy from the departments of Charente
and Charente- Maritime distilled from white wine

34. • Gin: distilled or redistilled neutral grain spirits
flavored with juniper berries and
aromatics as anise and caraway seeds
• Rum: cane product as molasses
• Sake: rice
• Tequila: a Mexican liquor distilled
from pulque

35. • Vodka: distilled from a mash as of rye or wheat
• Whiskey: mash of grain as rye, corn, or barley
• Tennessee Whisky: Bourbon above which is filtered
through maple charcoal

36. • Wine: juice of fresh grapes
• Champagne: a white sparkling wine made in the
old province of Champagne, France; also: a
similar wine made elsewhere.
• Sherry: a Spanish fortified wine with a distinctive
nutty flavor.

37. LAWS
THAT GOVERN
ALCOHOLISM

38. EXPLANATORY NOTE
• The law sets the minimum legal
drinking age at 18.
• The bill seeks to guarantee that our
nation’s youth would carry out their
responsibility in building our nation.

39. AN ACT PROHIBITING THE ACCESS OF MINORS
TO ALCOHOL AND
PENALIZING ESTABLISHMENTS THAT FURNISH
ALCOHOL TO MINORS
15th Congress
Senate Bill No. 2636

40. PREVENTIONS

41. PRIMARY PREVENTION
• Educational Approach –
– Programs for children ,risk group
– Electronic Media
– Target group intervention
• Legal Approach
– Control of production and sale
– Raising prices and taxes
– Raising of minimum age
– Ban advertisement available centers
• low use of alcohol content
• improve mental health and coping mechanism to stress
• parents to be Role Model for their children

42. SECONDARY PREVENTION
• Early Diagnosis
• Adequate Treatment
– of withdrawal symptoms
– of addiction-(physiological, psychological and social)
– of complications –(depression ,anxiety ,vitamin
deficiency, cirrhosis)
• Post de-toxication counseling & Follow up
• Change in Envt. at home , college ,work place..

43. ALCOHOLIC ANONYMOUS
• Started in 1935-Robert Hall Brook Smith
William Griffin Wilson
• An international fellowship of men and women
who once had a drinking problem. It is
nonprofessional, self-supporting,
nondenominational and apolitical

44. TERITIARY PREVENTION
It includes treatment and rehabilitation
• After care programs
• Vocational guidance
• Counseling
• Recreation.

45. THINK B4 U DRINK…