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Search - Alcohol Abuse and Addiction: Understanding Alcohol Addiction and Alcohol Abuse (Alcohol Abuse and Addiction - Support and Treatments)

Alcohol Abuse and Addiction Understanding Alcohol Addiction and Alcohol Abuse - Alcohol Abuse and Addiction - Support and Treatments
Author: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, US Department of Health and Human Services, US National Library of Medicine, National Institute on Drug Abuse

Alcohol Abuse and Addiction - Understanding Alcohol Addiction and Alcohol Abuse - Alcohol Abuse and Addiction - Support and Treatments. There are approximately 88,000 deaths attributable to excessive alcohol use each year in the United States. This makes excessive alcohol use the 3rd leading lifestyle-related cause of death for t... more »he nation. Excessive alcohol use is responsible for 2.5 million years of potential life lost (YPLL) annually, or an average of about 30 years of potential life lost for each death. In 2006, there were more than 1.2 million emergency room visits and 2.7 million physician office visits due to excessive drinking. The economic costs of excessive alcohol consumption in 2006 were estimated at $223.5 billion. Alcohol affects every organ in the drinker's body and can damage a developing fetus. Intoxication can impair brain function and motor skills; heavy use can increase risk of certain cancers, stroke, and liver disease. Alcoholism or alcohol dependence is a diagnosable disease characterized by a strong craving for alcohol, and/or continued use despite harm or personal injury. Alcohol abuse, which can lead to alcoholism, is a pattern of drinking that results in harm to one's health, interpersonal relationships, or ability to work. Alcohol suppresses both the innate and the adaptive immune systems. Chronic alcohol use reduces the ability of white blood cells to effectively engulf and swallow harmful bacteria. Excessive drinking also disrupts the production of cytokines, causing your body to either produce too much or not enough of these chemical messengers. An abundance of cytokines can damage your tissues, whereas a lack of cytokines leaves you open to infection. Chronic alcohol use also suppresses the development of T-cells and may impair the ability of NK cells to attack tumor cells. This reduced function makes you more vulnerable to bacteria and viruses, and less capable of destroying cancerous cells. With a compromised immune system, chronic drinkers are more liable to contract diseases like pneumonia and tuberculosis than people who do not drink too much. There is also data linking alcohol?s damage to the immune system with an increased susceptibility to contracting HIV infection. HIV develops faster in chronic drinkers who already have the virus. Drinking a lot on a single occasion also can compromise your immune system. Drinking to intoxication can slow your body?s ability to produce cytokines that ward off infections by causing inflammations.Without these inflammatory responses, your body?s ability to defend itself against bacteria is significantly reduced. A recent study shows that slower inflammatory cytokine production can reduce your ability to fight off infections for up to 24 hours after getting drunk.

ISBN-13: 9781500196424
ISBN-10: 1500196428
Publication Date: 6/15/2014
Pages: 64
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Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Book Type: Paperback
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