Yourwellness Magazine Investigates Effects of Drug and Alcohol Addiction
London, UK (PRWEB UK) 14 July 2013 -- The recent study “Impact of Pubertal Stage at First Drink on Adult Drinking Behaviour,” published May 17th in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, found that people who have their first taste of alcohol during puberty are more likely to become addicted. This was based on data from 280 young people in a German cohort study, and 20 Wistar rats, and revealed that people who had their first alcoholic drink during puberty (as opposed to after it) scored higher on a measure of problematic drinking by the time they were 23. (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acer.12154/abstract)
According to Adfam, there are several reasons why a person may begin using alcohol or drugs:
• To alter their perceptions or feelings.
• To escape.
• Peer pressure.
• To experiment.
• Because they’re in an environment where it’s the norm.
(http://www.adfam.org.uk/families/what_should_i_do/why_do_they_use_drugs_alcohol)
With this in mind, Yourwellness Magazine explored the physical and emotional effects of drug and alcohol addiction. According to Yourwellness Magazine, “Most of us were taught in school health classes that the effects of drugs and alcohol can be emotional as well as physical and can have a big impact on the people who surround us as well as on our individual bodies. While this is certainly true, what most people don’t understand – until they are in the throes of addiction – is just how devastating the physical and emotional affects of drug and alcohol addiction can be.”
Yourwellness Magazine outlined the physical effects of drug and alcohol addiction, including bloody noses, coughing for no reason, lack of coordination, unexplainable drowsiness, irregular pupil size, eyes moving back and forth rapidly and unable to focus on anything, bloodshot or red eyes, smells on clothing, physical marks on the skin (track marks, rashes, etc), inability to sit still and hair loss. Yourwellness Magazine also explained the symptoms of the emotional side of addiction, such as irritability, anxiety, inability to concentrate, anger, stress from strained relationships and feelings of loneliness, ostracism, abandonment and fear.
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Michael Kitt, Yourwellness Publishing Ltd, http://www.yourwellness.com, 0208 588 9553, [email protected]
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