Symptoms of alcohol addiction

Alcohol addiction is also known as alcohol dependence, which is generally manifested by patients drinking for a long time and drinking frequently. If they do not drink for a long time, it will cause great discomfort. This is a bad habit. After all, alcohol can make people in a bad mental state. Excessive drinking can even cause many diseases in the body. Here are some symptoms of alcohol addiction and how to quit.

1. What are the symptoms of alcohol dependence patients?

There are many people who like to drink, but some people not only like to drink, but also drink for a long time. If they don’t drink for a few days, they will feel uncomfortable all over. This is the onset of alcohol addiction. Drinking, like taking drugs, can be addictive. Moreover, once addiction occurs, it will cause many harms and it is difficult to quit.

Alcohol addiction is not just a bad habit, it has a unique name, called alcohol dependence.

2. Clinical manifestations of patients with alcohol dependence

1. Put drinking first and ignore everything else, such as being irresponsible to one’s own health, family, career, etc.

2. When you want to drink, if your desire is not satisfied, you will feel uncomfortable all over, which may manifest as emotional agitation, tremors in the limbs and trunk, nausea, vomiting and sweating, etc. These are all symptoms of withdrawal reaction. What's worse, it will further develop into hallucinations, illusions, delirium tremens, epilepsy and other symptoms. If you drink alcohol, these symptoms will disappear. Therefore, in order to avoid the above symptoms, some alcohol-dependent patients will drink alcohol when they wake up in the morning, and some patients even carry alcohol with them.

3. The more alcohol a person drinks and the longer they drink, the greater their tolerance to alcohol will be, and their alcohol tolerance will become greater and greater, making it increasingly difficult to satisfy them.

4. Under the stimulation of alcohol, personality changes may occur, and behaviors may be detrimental to personal health, family, and society.

3. How to quit alcohol addiction?

To treat alcohol dependence, the first thing is to understand the patient's specific condition so that the right medicine can be prescribed. In terms of treatment, there are generally three common treatment methods: medication, instrumental therapy and psychotherapy.

In terms of drug treatment, pure Chinese medicine preparations can be used to provide dialectical treatment for patients. The alcohol toxins in the patient's body can be expelled through drugs, so that the body's organs can be cleansed and repaired, helping patients to slowly reduce their dependence on alcohol and relieve patients' withdrawal symptoms such as anxiety, irritability, hand tremors, and insomnia.

There are many folk remedies for hangovers. Patients and their families should not believe or use them at will, but should seek help from professional doctors to avoid danger.

If psychotherapy is used, a common approach is to help patients develop appropriate alcohol abstinence plans through conversations, tests, and psychological analysis between doctors and patients, to build confidence in quitting drinking, and to improve patients' self-control abilities so that they can resist the temptation of alcohol and achieve psychological detoxification.