Archive for the ‘Alcohol abuse’ category

Alcohol and SCP

September 8th, 2010

Question: My MCh likes to drink. He drinks mostly vodka or cognac. Drinks often, usually in a few (as he says, for the vessels to relax, sleep better, and so forth), but it also happens that the drink may be more than enough. Whole situation more difficult is that a man has chronic renal failure. He argues that dialysis washes out alcohol, and that the harm from him not so much. I understand that this is not so, especially given his illness. I very much want to influence it, I want to, he finally realized that alcohol should be discarded, but how to do it, can not imagine. Can you please tell what you can do the most and how important it is to see a doctor? Which? And as gently hint MCh, you need to see a doctor? Thanks in advance. I hope very much for your respons

Answer: probably be talking about alcoholism, if the person does not ponimat that in diseases of the kidneys alcohol should be isklyuchon. But accurate diagnosis can be established only by a physician, psychiatrist narcologist, after full-time inspection. The doctor also appoint necessary, individual, treatment.

Threw beer

September 7th, 2010

Question: I recently decided to start up with a beer and stop drinking it completely. Prior to that he drank beer every day for almost a year, a lot, 2-2,5 liters per day. After 10-13 days, began with health problems, dizziness, weakness, lost productivity, has become a very bad sleep. At the moment had passed 2 months without beer, things improved somewhat, I feel more / less, remained weak, but not always, but as if in waves, sometimes the head spinning yet, but the viability slowly regenerates. Normal? How can I speed up the process of withdrawal from this state without resorting to drugs

Answer: Yeah. Continue to lead a healthy lifestyle, enjoy a workout, take a multivitamin, drink soothing teas and fees.

Like those due to alcohol?

September 5th, 2010

Question: Can you answer my question: Are there a man, a cat. drank beer, not being drunk, loss of memory, ie, a man riding the subway, and then suddenly turns out to be a completely different place after 6 hours and it is nothing to remember! Just remember, like riding the subway.

Answer: It is unlikely, but it can be. Do not know, maybe this person is Katie a problem in another direction, which affected his mental state at this time.

HELP!

September 2nd, 2010

Question: Dear Doctor! Non-alcoholic beer may be alcohol or it can be to drink every day

Answer: It is impossible to give an unambiguous answer. Each question is purely individual and give specific advice for you personally, it is difficult, without the prior survey. If you take a healthy person who is not ill, alcoholics, and it has no dependencies, this beer is for him to be as, say, forfeits, which also has its own risk for stomach and intestine (chemical industry). But such a person will not drink alcohol-free beer every day, for him it may be only sporadic. If we talk about the reception of the drink a person suffering from alcoholism or drug addiction, then it does not contribute to the process of his recovery from addiction. Complex process and if you want to get the details, then sign up for a full-time consultation.

Alcoholism is it?

August 21st, 2010

Question: I have a question, if every weekend to drink beer (bottles 2-3), it is alcoholism

Answer: If alcohol is used systematically, it is already possible to call alcoholism. The only problem being that it is possible to define a full-time the doctor-drug addiction.

Is it alcohol?

August 20th, 2010

Question: Vyacheslav Vladimirovich 32goda my husband, I believe that he has a serious problem. general he does not drink, etc. ie he has no craving for alcohol, he can not drink it 3-4 months, no alcohol at all, but on holiday in a big company it does not feel the steps he had drunk and the next day terrible hangover and partly not remember last night. is alcoholism? and what stage? What to do? soon at our friends wedding, how he control himself? and the summer is, he drinks beer in the country, can drink 5 bottles a day, but the truth is rarely, once every two weeks or once a month. is the problem? thank you in advance.

Answer: One of the symptoms, which is one of the key, with the diagnosis of alcoholism is the loss of situational control drunk. If you want to self-diagnosis, zatsdite at this address – http://www. psysocialis. ru/item31 /. Findings do yourself.

Heredity

August 13th, 2010

Question: Alcoholism peredaetsya of heredity

Answer: the disease is not transmitted, transmitted predisposition to disease and defects of mental development associated with alcoholism.

Beer posedelki

August 4th, 2010

Question: Good time of day. I have a question. "I drink beer for about 7 years, now I'm 22. It began with "once a week on the jars with friends, then PA2, 3, and more. . . then became pmt beer beer few times decided to finally finish. Apparently liver podiznosilas. Advise some medication to drink that would restore a little liver. Now go to the doctor is not possible, so ask what poprinimat. From the overall assessment of the issue, too, will not refuse. Thanks in advance.

Answer: If you stop completely consumed beer, you will not need to restore anything. And so – full-time doctor, psychiatrist narcologists.

Abuse

August 1st, 2010

Question: The question has arisen about the abuse of alcohol. . . Nowhere did I find, but slvshal that the abuse is, if drinking more than 200 grams of vodka a week. Is this true and is there a formal WHO guidelines, and what generally is alcohol in general

Answer: Norms for the use of poison there. Alcohol – a poison which destroys the brain, and therefore causes a pathological mental state, which is called intoxication. Abuse is defined as any alcohol, which becomes a regular, systematic (daily, weekly, monthly), in all doses. There is occasional use – for rare holidays, for example – 3-4 times a year, without bringing his wealth to the average degree of intoxication. Doses purely individual.

Alcohol breaks down the family

July 10th, 2010

Question: Eighteen months ago, my husband "connected" with the company drinking guys. Until this "connection", he drank moderately, on holidays, a constant craving for alcohol was not, if "completely drunk" – it was bad, sick, poor sleep. It all started with a daily consumption of beer – not less than 2 liters, at the weekend – friends, the use of vodka daily booze, the next day – a hangover again, "amendment" beer and vodka. Intoxicated aggressive, touchy, accuses the other of all mortal sins. I put an ultimatum to her husband – if he would drink alcohol – I'll go. Husband missing no more than a month is worth it to have a beer – he asked for more, or drink beer and the next day under the pretext – was treated at work "," Sergei met. But then after I stop the scandal. But if my husband is drinking spirits, he begins to drink one glass after another, all in a row, or until you fall to the floor, or, if I forbid you to drink – he leaves the house and "catches up" somewhere else, can not come spend the night, and the next morning pohmelyaetsya beer. Then he asks for forgiveness, it is enough for a month. Show you can cure it, how. Alcohol it will be completely contraindicated? How much time can take a treatment? Will treatment on his psyche as a whole? I can not go quietly visit with this man, go rest on the sea, I am afraid for our daughter, who sees a father. It can spit at him and go away forever after another broken promise "not to drink

Answer: Your husband – an alcoholic, and if you do not carry out their threat, then they cease to act and he will continue drinking in spite of everything. Treatment is possible, but it must begin in the hospital and continue at home. Alcohol is contraindicated in full. Positively impact on the psyche. The final treatment is always up to you. Treatment of alcoholism – http://www. narcologia. ru/narcology/article_40. html