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Alcoholic
* All alcoholics have it as a major symptom of their disease.
* Many alcoholics become able to drink ever larger amounts of alcohol before feeling or seeming drunk
  - do silly things when they drink
  - drink to combat anxiety
  - have a vitamin deficiency, especially a deficiency of thiamine
  - suffer convulsions and hallucinations during withdrawal
  - treat an underlying depression with alcohol
* Most alcoholics are either hypoglycemic or borderline diabetics
  - good and kind people
  - ordinary people
  - begin to feel better very quickly after they stop drinking
* Most alcoholics have cellular changes after consuming alcohol for long periods of time
  - food allergies, sugar, grains, and alcohol
* Some alcoholics always find a reason to drink.
* Some alcoholics are able to cover or hide evidence of becoming disoriented
  - bingers, with intermittent periods of sobriety
  - persons with a healthy diet
* Some alcoholics begin drinking to the point of intoxication from their first drink
  - point of intoxication from their very first drink
  - develop rosacea, particularly rhinophyma
  - do drink all the time
* Some alcoholics drink daily
  - regularly
  - favor scotch, some drink tequila, others drink nothing but beer
  - have hypertriglyceridemia which disappears with abstinence
  - stay dry for weeks even months or years
* also are more likely to die prematurely
  - tend to have certain personality traits
* are also more susceptible to neoplasms and less resistant to viral infections
  - bad bad bad people
  - certainly alcohol-dependent
  - classically hypomagnesemic in part due to poor nutrition
  - drunkards
  - good at lying to others and even better at lying to themselves
  - individuals with disabilities, subject to the protections of the statute
* are located in bars
  - bridges
  - fraternity houses
  - homeless shelter
  - liquor stores
  - parks
  - prisons
  - morally weak
  - more likely to smoke mentholated cigarettes
  - most likely to lack the minerals selenium, zinc, magnesium, iron and phosphorous
  - much more likely to be violent and abuse others in their family
  - nearly five times more likely than others to die in motor vehicle crashes
  - nutritionally at risk for two main reasons
  - one hundred times more likely to commit suicide
* are particularly at risk for thiamine deficiency for two reasons
  - of misuse of other psychoactive drugs
  - persons with sizable life problems
  - powerless over their disease, and most commonly have addictive personalities
  - prone to thrombocytopenia, prolonged bleeding times, and blunt head trauma
  - seven times more likely to be involved in fatal accidents than non-alcoholics
  - susceptible to dependence to all mood-altering chemicals
  - there to support each other during good and bad times
  - three times as likely to be male as female
  - twice as likely to confess a drinking problem to a computer than to a doctor
  - used for alcohol
* become hypomagnesemic partially by an osmotic diuresis from alcohol
  - physically and emotionally dependent on the drug
* can be deficient in magnesium
  - free themselves into conversion, metanoia , through the telling of tales
* come from all backgrounds.
* commonly consume methanol as a substitute for ethanol
  - engage in their most painful habits while under the influence
* create excuses for drinking.
* desire liquor.
* drink every day Some alcoholics drink only on weekends, some abstain for months
  - more and more alcohol, often without knowing it
  - to numb the pain of living
* eat less because alcohol tends to suppress the appetite.
* find it so difficult to give up drinking because they have no willpower.
* frequently combine deflection and projection through the use of anger and hostility.
* generally are self-centered and defiant people who develop expansive egos.
* have a considerable higher rate of accidental death than the general population
  - high tolerance for alcohol
  - higher tolerance to to alcohol than the average person
  - love-hate relationship with their drink
  - lower resistance to a number of different infections
  - an increased frequency of bacterial overgrowth in the upper gastrointestinal tract
  - many unsatisfactory experiences in life
  - poor intake of folate
  - runny noses
  - unique and different responses to alcohol
* know they respond differently to alcohol.
* like to blame other people, or their job, or their spouse, or even their kids.
* never get well unless given a chance.
* often combine rationalizing and fantasy
  - comment that they are never cured
  - deny that they have a problem
* often have bones that are less dense than normal
  - disorders of sugar metabolism
  - severe cravings for alcohol while in the middle of a hypoglycemic attack
* run a greater risk of gettin cirrhosis of the liver.
* seem to be more sensitive to task-irrelevant stimuli.
* smoke more cigarettes per day than do nonalcoholic smokers.
* sometimes develop deficiency
  - experience a sudden spontaneous awakening
* suffer from disturbing memory lapses called blackouts.
* tell unnecessary lies in efforts to cover up for their behavior.
* tend to be nice people except for the severe personality changes caused by the alcohol
  - deny their situation and deceive others about their condition
  - follow a predictable pattern of behavior as they become alcoholics
* think about alcohol a lot.
* use alcohol to cope with the stresses of every day life
  - denial and rationalization to twist reality into a more palatable form