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What is Alcohol? Alcohol has the ability to bring happiness and excitement to many people while at the same time it can also destroy family when it is being abused. For example when it is being use at a social party or at a night club people can get many joys out of it, but when it is over used people can get drunk and lose control of them self. It is known as a depressant substance and statistic has shown that the highest demographic of alcohol usage are in young adults. What is another name for Alcohol? Booze What are the different types of Alcoholics? The National Institutes on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism researchers has defined that there are at least five subtypes of alcoholics. The statistic is produced as the result of the study from 1,484 participants. Young Adult Alcoholics This group is made up of 31.5% of the total alcoholics. They don’t often mix alcohol with other drug and they don’t often seek help for their bad habits. Young Antisocial AlcoholicsThis group is made up of 21%. They are mainly in the mid 20s and over half of this group comes from family with alcohol problems. A high percentage of them are also link to drugs such as marijuana and cocaine. As the result of alcohol abuse most of them face problem such as anxiety, bipolar disorder and depression.Functional AlcoholicsThere are at least 19.5% made up in this group. Most of them are middle age professional that has stable jobs with a family. Half them are known to be smoker and a quarter of them face major depression at some point in their life.Intermediate Familial Alcoholics 19% of the people from the study are in this group. Most of them are also middle age and they smoke cigarettes, marijuana and cocaine. Only 25 percent of them would ever seek out for treatment. Chronic Severe Alcoholics This is the worst of group of all and is made up of 9%. Most of them usually come from family with alcohol problem and they often engage in criminal activities. Not only they have the highest rate of anxiety, bipolar disorder and depression problem they also have the highest rate of drug related issue such as smoking marijuana and cocaine. What are its short-term effects?
The short-term effects of alcohol are that it reduced Inhibitions, loss of muscle control and/or blackout, nausea, headaches, hangover, stupor and coma. What are its long-term effects?
When drinking alcohol and a daily or regular basis you can become addicted to alcohol (alcoholism). Prolong use of alcohol will result in symptoms such as anxiety, hallucinations, tremors, weight gain, liver cancer, breast cancer, strokes, Impotence or other sexual problems , heart disease, ulcers, high blood pressure, alcohol poisoning and infertility.
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Alcoholism and Addiction 
