Alcoholism
The bottle is never too far from the hand of Mr. Smith. He goes home and yells at his children. He sometimes hits them and his wife, too. When the family isn’t fighting, they’re not talking. Mrs. Smith is depressed and the kids are emotional wrecks. This situation isn’t as fictional as it may sound. Alcoholism is a widespread problem all over the United States. 104 million people (46.6%) in the United States are current drinkers, and 12.6 million (5.6%) are heavy drinkers. Although massive damage can be done to the body by abusing alcohol, the waste is not limited to just the alcoholic. Alcohol can destroy the social and private lives of any person who abuses it. The destructive power of alcohol can be made into a cycle. The cycle begins with the consumption of alcohol. What alcohol does is activate the “pleasure circuit” releasing dopamine, producing a feeling as low as mild happiness or as high as euphoria. Chronic use of alcohol will kill off dopamine receptors and essentially make it harder for the user to be happy. The simple things that made the user happy before, like a good conversation or a good book, will be seemingly useless. (Newsweek 2001, 40) When alcohol is first consumed, it passes almost immediate
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