Alcohol

Alcohol

"Alcohol is the type of depressants. Alcohol is any beverage  containing ethyl alcohol, including beer, wine and liquor."
According to World Health Organization (WHO) 2 billion people worldwide consume alcohol. In United States every two third of all uses drinks which contain alcohol.

Binge drinking episode

"When people consume five or more than five drinks of alcohol on the single event it is known as binge drinking episode."

Ethyl Alcohol

All alcoholic drinks contain ethyl alcohol. Ethyl alcohol is a chemical that readily absorbed into the bloodstream through the lining of stomach and intestine. Blood stream carried it to the central nervous system.

 Effects of Ethyl Alcohol

Ethyl Alcohol effects directly and immediately to the addict's body and brain. There are some points to describe the effects of ethyl alcohol on our body and brain.

• It acts to depress and or slow down the functioning of brain by binding with various neurons. Ethyl alcohol normally binds with the group of neurons which receive the neurotransmitter GABA. When ethyl alcohol binds with neurons these neurons send inhibitory message to the GABA. Then GABA stop the neurons and help the body to relax. 
• Second effect of the ethyl alcohol is it depresses the areas of brain that control judgement. With the use of ethyl alcohol person looses control of his body and brain, become more talkative, and friendly. When alcohol is more absorbed in bloodstream it slowed down the more areas of central nervous system. Then they feel difficulty in judgement., he shows irrelevant speech, also shows some memory difficulties.
• Addicts also posses some motor difficulties. He loses control of his body. He may drop things, hit into the door or furniture, and he may also have some judgement difficulties. His vision become distorted and have hearing difficulties. That's why people who drink lot of alcohol  may have difficulty in driving and problem solving.

Concentration of Alcohol

 Effects of alcohol largely depends on the concentration of alcohol or it's amount in the bloodstream. It also depends on the age and the gender of the person. It has less effect on aged people than young ones. Women also posses more effects than men with the same amount of dose of alcohol.
Levels of impairment are closely related to concentration of alcohol in the bloodstream. When the alcohol concentration reaches to 0.06 percent of the blood volume, a person usually feel relaxed and comfortable. When it reaches to 0.09 percent, however, the addict crosses the line of intoxication. If the level goes to 0.55 percent death will almost expected result. 

Alcohol Abuse

 When a person reaches to the level of alcohol abuse he start drinking large amount of alcohol so that he can work otherwise he can not work effectively. He depends on alcohol and can not live without it. It interfere his personal, professional, social, and occupational life. MRI Scan shows that heavy drinks of alcohol effects some regions of brain that may cause impaired memory, thinking, attention, balance etc.
People differ in their pattern of alcohol abuse. Some people uses large amount of drinks until they reaches to intoxication while other uses alcohol once in months and weeks and never reaches to the level of intoxication.

Alcohol dependence/addiction

Some people crosses the level of alcohol abuse and reaches to the level of alcohol addiction. In this level they depends on alcohol. Their body develop tolerance for alcohol and they have to increase the dose of alcohol when their body develop tolerance to get pleasurable effect. Whenever they quit the use of alcohol or take low doses of alcohol they also experience withdrawal symptoms like irritability, restlessness, fatigue, increased heart beat and blood pressure, sweating, anxiety, depression, etc.