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"Alcoholism." Current Issues: Macmillian Social Science Library. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 25 Oct. 2011. Document URL http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&disableHighlighting=true&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=GALE%7C00000000LVV3&documentId=GALE%7CPC3021900011&mode=view&userGroupName=pl7053&jsid=93aa86083dcff7f6e9c1540badea1215


 * 1) Alcoholism is heavy drinking that leads someone to get addicted to alcohol.
 * 2) As intake progresses, the effects of alcohol become worse.
 * 3) In this situation, the disease includes physical and psychological addiction towards alcohol which involves depending on and needing alcohol.
 * 4) Once someone halts the use of alcohol, he/she goes through a state of withdrawal.
 * 5) Some symptoms of withdrawal include vomiting, uncontrollable shaking due to emotional stress, or becoming violent and frantic.
 * 6) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c4ca8; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alcohol is a depressant that slows down all of the organs in your central nervous system, which includes the brain.
 * 7) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c4ca8; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Drinking impairs judgement and coordination, any amount of heavy drinking will heighten the risk of an injury or death with motor vehicle crashes, falling, and many other accidents.
 * 8) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c4ca8; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Short-term and long-term usage of alcohol risks individuals. Even a small amount of becoming intoxicated confines the brain to speaking with a slur and losing coordination. This also can cause vomiting and hangovers which is a condition that causes headaches and becoming nauseous.
 * 9) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c4ca8; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Some think alcoholics begin to heavily drink in the cause of ones with no self control and others think it's the cause of some genetics.
 * 10) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c4ca8; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Long-term alcohol use leads to problems in brain functioning including memory loss, damaged learning abilities, and common disorientation.
 * 11) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c4ca8; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alcohol is processed by the liver, which leads to heavy drinkers risking themselves to diseases such as cirrhosis, hepatitis, cancer, and other liver-associated diseases.
 * 12) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c4ca8; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chronic use of alcohol leads to health problems such as ulcers, high blood pressure, heart disease, and stroke.
 * 13) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c4ca8; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">About 8.5 percent of Americans meet the basis of either alcohol abuse or alcoholism.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #a62483; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Alcohol Abuse and Addiction." Alcohol and Tobacco: America's Drugs of Choice. Detroit: Gale, 2006. Information Plus Reference Series. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 25 Oct. 2011. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #a62483; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Document URL <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #a62483; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=OVIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ3011250113&mode=view&userGroupName=pl7053&jsid=3175fce73defa214e1808f7ac4856c34
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #a62483; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Most who consume alcohol do not become addicted.
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #a62483; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mostly, the alcoholics are ones with certain psychological traits that cause them to become addicted.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #a62483; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alcoholism was identified as a disease more than two hundred years ago. In 1785 Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, wrote an essay on "the effects of ardent spirits," calling intemperance (insobriety) a disease and an addiction.
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #a62483; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alcoholism does not refer to all who partake in heavy-drinking or becoming drunk. Alcoholism refers to those with certain symptoms of addiction.
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #a62483; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In many cases, the alcoholic goes through denial in which they do not wish to accept that alcohol is the cause of their problems.
 * 6) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #a62483; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Many loved ones usually make many excuses for the drinker when they think it's helping them, such as calling into the drinker's work and explaining he/she has a cold or flu rather than saying they are going through a hangover. This leads the the alcoholic continuing to drink in the amounts because the friends and family have taken care of their issue.
 * 7) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #a62483; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Some who study this subject argue that alcohol abuse and alcoholism differ in many ways.

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 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #a62483; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Children of alcoholics seem to be affected the most.
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #a62483; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Many kids of alcoholics have a chance of suffering from ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and anxiety problems.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #a62483; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Also, the children of alcoholics as parents get low test grades that test cognitive and verbal skills.
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #a62483; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The children also are likely to be absent more often from school or get dropped back in grade years.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f57b17; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Introduction to Alcohol Abuse: At Issue." Alcohol Abuse. Ed. Ronnie D. Lankford. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2008. At Issue. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 26 Oct. 2011. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f57b17; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Document URL <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f57b17; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=OVIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ3010276111&mode=view&userGroupName=pl7053&jsid=6387748bb91be1a5e5a941e720eabea5


 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f57b17; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alcohol is the most abused drug in America.
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f57b17; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alcohol is legal and found with great ease.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f57b17; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use of alcohol is generalized as normal in Western societies.
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f57b17; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11 million Americans under the age of 21 drink alcohol and half of those drink more the five drinks in a row.
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f57b17; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Drinking five or more drinks consecutively is referred to as Binge Drinking.
 * 6) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f57b17; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teens abuse alcohol for the many more reasons than curiosity and relaxation.
 * 7) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f57b17; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alcohol is usually influenced by friends, family, and genetics.
 * 8) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f57b17; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Certain personalities can affect if the person will abuse alcohol to an extent or not.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #87dc11; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Smith, Barbara Sullivan. "Alcohol." Drugs and Controlled Substances: Information for Students. Ed. Stacey L. Blachford and Kristine Krapp. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 26 Oct. 2011. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #87dc11; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Document URL <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #87dc11; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=OVIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ3016000002&mode=view&userGroupName=pl7053&jsid=98fed455ec29ef4b727be7f9998e495a


 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #87dc11; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In very small amounts, alcohol can have good health benefits such as lowering the risk of heart attacks.
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #87dc11; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the past, alcohol was used to sedate the patients, used as an anesthetic, and used to cure infections.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #87dc11; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alcohol can be used as a depressant to your brain. Alcohol is placed in the blood and travels to the brain and slows down your mental responses.
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #87dc11; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">If a small amount of alcohol is consumed, memory is sharpened and creative thinking is also strengthened.
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #87dc11; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alcohol consumption can cause many people to change their usual personality. An example, alcohol can make a shy person more talkative and outgoing.

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #196e42; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Alcohol." Current Issues: Macmillian Social Science Library. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2003. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 28 Oct. 2011. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #196e42; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Document URL <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=OVIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ3011400013&mode=view&userGroupName=pl7053&jsid=74cab548205f3919d2e1f68879aec734__]


 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #196e42; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In some cultures of the world, people commonly drink wine, beer, and other alcohol drink.
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #196e42; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The country of France, wine is a regular part of the lifestyle and diet.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #196e42; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Although, other cultures, such as Muslim societies, prohibit the drinking of alcohol.
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #196e42; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Abusing alcohol is very pricey to society. Diseases, mishaps, and rehabilitation cost billions every year.
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #196e42; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Experts estimate that alcohol use is responsible for 100,000 deaths annually in the nation.
 * 6) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #196e42; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the past, people thought of alcohol as a gift from the gods, and they involved it into religious rituals.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #532af1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Drinking (Alcoholic Beverages)." Current Issues: Macmillian Social Science Library. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 28 Oct. 2011. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #532af1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Document URL <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #532af1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=OVIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CPC3021900050&mode=view&userGroupName=pl7053&jsid=e89ab1ca686e25f11e39f464c5c4f3f7


 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #532af1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In 1984 was when the United States required all of the states to set the age to allow alcoholic drinking at 21 years or older.
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #532af1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The usual healthy amount of drinks should be consumed is, 2 drinks for men a day and 1 drink for women a day.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #532af1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Men and Women metabolize alcohol differently.
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #532af1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Any more than two for men and one for women, is considered as heavy drinking and associates with health risks.
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #532af1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Drinking is specifically dangerous for women when pregnant.
 * 6) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #532af1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Alcohol will affect the baby while in the womb and can lead to future health deficits.
 * 7) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #532af1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Children will go through lower birth weight, problems with growth, and behavior problems.
 * 8) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #532af1; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A known health issue is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, this leads to problems for the child that involve mental retardation, hearing and vision issues, and physical birth defects.