alcohol Tag

Alcohol consumption is a widespread practice around the world. Whether to accompany meals, in social settings, or simply because you feel like it, there are many people who drink throughout the week. Most do it in moderation, being aware of where the limit is. However, there are other people for whom drinking is beyond their control and end up developing an addiction with serious health consequences. Alcoholism is the main addiction in the world and a serious problem for many families. Knowing how to prevent abusive consumption is the best way to avoid future complications.

How alcoholism affects adolescents is the topic we are dealing with first-hand today. Alcohol consumption in adolescence is an act that carries many risks, which can even lead to violent actions, addiction, and diseases. Fortunately, at our Valencia Detoxification Center, we offer you the right tools and techniques that will help you solve this problem, giving you hope.

After the Christmas excesses, it is convenient to leave bad habits behind. Today we review the consequences to which you expose yourself if you do not stop drinking alcohol or alcoholic beverages. After the Christmas period, there are many habits that need to be reversed. One of them, perhaps the most harmful, is drinking alcohol frequently. After all, Christmas celebrations between families and friends are usually extended with several drinks or beers too many, and that takes a heavy toll on the body. The most worrying thing is that its consumption goes from being merely casual or only within social environments to becoming chronic and persistent.

It was World Day without Alcohol, the most consumed and accepted legal drug in Spain. According to data from the latest state survey, 62% of the population between 15 and 64 years old has consumed alcohol in the last 30 days, and 78% have done so in the last year. It is one of the main causes of illness and mortality and is related to more than 200 diseases. We explain how alcohol consumption affects your health.

Addiction prevention is an absolutely fascinating field. For thousands of years, we have accepted the consumption of alcohol, drugs, or gambling as part of normality. However, we live unaware of the risk involved, for example, drinking alcohol. Avoiding the harmful consequences of these habits have given rise to a science called preventology, preventative medicine, or prevention. Today we know for sure that the repeated use of alcohol causes a disease called alcoholism in some people. Preventing alcoholism consists of trying to avoid the harmful and pathological effects that chronic alcohol use entails.

Alcohol is a depressant substance of the central nervous system. In addition to having an effect on the brain and changing some of its functions (coordination, attention, memory...), its continued use also affects other organs such as the kidney, liver, or circulatory system. Initially, the effects of alcohol are subtle, but they can be dangerous because a person under its influence is not a good judge of their behavior.