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Alcohol Dependence And Co-Morbidity

Saturday 1 December 2007 @ 6:50 pm

A person drinking for a long period of time may loose control over the use of alcohol-in initiating or limiting the amount or terminating the use .By the time one develops a sense of compulsion to drink; he usually requires a higher amount to have the desired effect. If he tries to delay or decrease the amount or quit drinking, he has to suffer difficulties of withdrawal like restlessness, palpitation, tremor or seizure or even more life threatening conditions.Consequently, he continues to drink despite of knowing the adverse effects of drinking. Any person with three or more of the features sometimes in the past year has a serious problem-alcohol dependence syndrome, a major cause of Anxiety in population
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Alcohol Dependence And Co-Morbidity