| Alcoholism stages can be categorized into three | | | | more severe if alcohol is reduced.The person may |
| stages of alcoholism - early stage, middle stage and | | | | now secretly recognize there is a drinking problem, and |
| end stage alcoholism or late stage alcoholism. | | | | others may begin to notice as well. Unfortunately, the |
| Alcoholism stages generally take years to develop. | | | | alcoholic no longer can judge how much alcohol their |
| Alcoholism is a disease where alcoholic beverage | | | | body can handle. Typically, the drinker denies to |
| consumption is at a level that interferes with physical | | | | themselves and others that alcohol is a problem so |
| or mental health, and negatively impacts social, family | | | | they won't have to deal with their inner turmoil. |
| or occupational responsibilities.Consuming no more than | | | | Hangovers, blackouts and stomach problems can now |
| one or two drinks per day for healthy men and a drink | | | | be physical symptoms that occur on a regular |
| a day for healthy non-pregnant women are generally | | | | basis.End Stage Alcoholism As alcoholism progresses, |
| considered acceptable alcohol consumption without | | | | the alcoholic has become obsessed with drinking to |
| health risks. However, as the amount or frequency of | | | | the exclusion of nearly everything else. Everyone can |
| drinking increases, the earliest of the alcoholism stages | | | | tell there's a major problem. During the late alcoholism |
| can develop as a result.Early Stages of AlcoholismIn | | | | stages, the mental and physical health of the alcoholic |
| the early alcoholism stages, a person begins to depend | | | | are seriously deteriorating. Many of the body's organs |
| on alcohol to affect their mood. They drink for relief | | | | have been damaged which lowers resistance to |
| from problems, and they begin thinking more and more | | | | disease. Relationships at home or socially may have |
| about alcohol. The person and others around them | | | | been severely damaged, and there can be mounting |
| may not recognize that they are in the earliest of the | | | | financial and legal problems due to the alcoholic's |
| stages of alcoholism. A gradual increase in tolerance | | | | powerlessness over alcohol.Every alcoholic will suffer |
| happens, meaning, it takes increasing amounts of | | | | from malnutrition. Alcohol in large amounts interferes |
| alcohol to achieve the desired mood-altering effects. | | | | with the digestion process and the passage of |
| Often, the person can consume large amounts of | | | | nutrients from the intestines into the bloodstream. Liver |
| alcohol without appearing impaired.At the early | | | | function has been damaged, further limiting the |
| alcoholism stages, the body has adapted to increasing | | | | conversion of nutrients into a usable form that the |
| amounts of alcohol. In fact, how a person functions will | | | | body can assimilate. The damaged cells are not |
| likely be improved with drinking as blood alcohol levels | | | | receiving the needed nutrients, they cannot repair |
| rise. For example, they can think and talk normally or | | | | themselves and the damage continues. Nutritional |
| walk a straight line with no problem. However, with | | | | deficiencies cause a host of related problems to |
| continued alcohol consumption over time, the body | | | | become worse. For example, a vitamin B-1 deficiency |
| begins to lose its ability to deal with high alcohol levels. | | | | common in alcoholics can result in loss of mental |
| As this occurs, when the alcoholic stops drinking and | | | | alertness and appetite, fatigue, confusion and emotional |
| their blood alcohol level decreases, their thinking, talking | | | | instability.And if the alcoholic continues drinking, alcohol |
| or walking functions deteriorate, and they are moving | | | | will cause the death of the alcoholic in one way or |
| into the next of the stages of alcoholism. Middle | | | | another. From suicide, accidents and related injuries to |
| Alcoholism StagesThe need and desire to drink | | | | direct damage to the body's organs and systems, |
| gradually becomes more intense. Drinking larger | | | | death will likely be the final outcome of end stage |
| amounts and more often happens as well as drinking | | | | alcoholism.Are there warning signs of alcoholism? Yes! |
| earlier in the day. The alcoholic is losing control over | | | | Understand the signs and symptoms that indicate that |
| drinking, and the body is losing its ability to process | | | | alcohol consumption is becoming or is already a |
| alcohol like it did in the early stages of alcoholism. Their | | | | problem. There are resources available in a variety of |
| tolerance decreases as they become intoxicated | | | | ways to help deal with alcoholism stages and the |
| more easily. Withdrawal symptoms begin to become | | | | serious consequences of this disease. |