Book: Alcoholism - amazingly simple
A "crash" course-type of reading on alcoholism and alcohol related problems designed to help you understand this disease and help yourself or your beloved ones. It is intended for a large range of readers - both licensed professionals and lay persons - all heavy, moderate, mild or NON- alcohol drinkers.A must-read text derived from decades of treating alcoholism by the author and from teaching alcoholism to undergraduate students.
Print: $7.95
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Excerpts from this book aimed at giving you further valuable information on alcohol and alcoholism
Under natural circumstances, pleasure rewards those actions that are useful for survival, inviting a person to perform and repeat them. Alcohol and the other addictive drugs are substances that can interfere and perturb the natural functioning of the reward centers in the brain. One may say that, through its spreading and effects, alcohol is the most important addictive drug
Alcoholism is a disease and not a shameful or guilty vice.
The alcoholic is not a bad person, he is just a sick one. The alcoholic cannot even be held responsible for having become an alcoholic. Nobody explained to him in a persuasive manner - when he was a young beginner - that that glass of alcohol would have the power of ensnaring him in a trap out of which there was to be no escape. We should rather hold all society responsible for encouraging the consumption of alcohol under all sorts of pretexts. There exist no well-defined border between the alcoholic and the non-alcoholic drinker. There is no such thing as people who cannot become alcoholics through alcohol consumption; there exist only people who have not yet had the time of absorbing enough alcohol to be considered alcoholics. A glass of alcohol cannot pass through the organism without also influencing it on a long-term basis.
Alcoholism is an incurable, though remissible, disease.
The alcoholic's will power is inoperative.
The unconscious plays an important part in alcoholism.
Reality denial is a chain link in the pathology of alcoholism.
By its complications, alcoholism is a deadly disease.
Alcoholism begins in a group but it ends up in loneliness. Lured by the joyful trap of the first parties, the alcoholic cannot give up the drug called alcohol any longer and usually dies 10 to 14 years younger than the non-alcoholic.
Alcoholism begins in a group but it ends up in loneliness.
Alcohol is toxic for the nervous cells.
Alcoholism produces redoubtable medical and psychiatric complications.
Alcoholism produces extensive family and social complications.
The book is available for purchase in two versions:
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