Alcoholism Effects on Others Long lasting effects

What is Alcoholism?
If drinking becomes heavy, Alcohol makes it harder for
it can negatively affect the brain to control
A Pattern of Drinking that
your interaction with other balance, memory, speech,
interferes with day-to-day
people. As some people and judgment to do their
activities. It’s a chronic
drink more, they become jobs. This results in the
disease caused by
inebriated and potentially likelihood of injuries and
uncontrollable drinking.
loud and obnoxious. As other negative outcomes.
Symptoms include a
they become more Long term can even cause
strong need or desire to
intoxicated they may injuries to the brain's
use alcohol. Those with
ignore boundaries and neutrons, such as
alcohol use disorder often
make those around them reduction in their size. It
have a hard time
uncomfortable or even can also include change in
controlling their drinking,
unsafe. Research has emotions and personality
use alcohol even when it
shown that alcohol abuse as well as impaired
continues to cause issues,
can lead to serious family perception, learning, and
or has withdrawals and
consequences, including memory. Overall it has a
cannot stop drinking even
intimate partner violence lot of negative impacts on
when attempted to do so.
and even divorce. If the body, not just how you
alcohol abuse tends to run act.
your relationship, don't be
afraid to reach out for help!
“Therapists report
alcoholism as one of the
most damaging and
difficult problems to treat in
marital therapy”
(Campbell)

Campbell, James L., et al. “Relationship of

Parental Alcoholism to Family-of-Origin
Functioning and Current Marital Satisfaction.”
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