### biological brain disease:

Alcoholism
* IS a chemical, physical addiction to alcohol
  - treatable and alcoholics can live full, productive lives without ever drinking again
* affects all socio-professional classes
  - almost every part of the body
  - both males and females of all ages and every ethnic culture
  - families
  - five elderly men for every one woman
  - many families
  - nearly every family on the reservation
  - one out of three American families
  - the entire family
* also depresses the activity of the enzymes
  - increases the risk of liver and digestive disease, certain cancers, and suicide
  - interferes with the person's experience of personal and emotional growth
  - leads to other diseases such a liver failure
* always starts with a single drink.
* assaults sanity by depleting key antidepressant chemicals in the brain.
* biological brain disease.
* brain disease, and the brain is still a frontier for biological research.
* can also cause bone and muscle weakness
  - lead to vitamin K deficiency
  - trigger a host of personal problems
* can be a cause of iron deficient anemia
  - progressive and fatal psychological and physical disorder
  - easily misunderstood
  - begin as a subtle shift from social drinking to a dependence on alcohol
* can cause intrauterine-growth retardation
  - various medical and psychiatric conditions or increase their severity
  - certainly cause psychological problems
* can develop as early as adolescence and continue in older age groups
  - starting in adolescence and continuing into older age groups
  - kill the alcohlic
  - mask an underlying depression
  - result in folic acid deficiency
  - run in one's family and make a person much more prone to addiction than others
  - skip a generation
  - tear a family apart
* causes a similar peripheral neuropathy
  - stigmas
* ceases to exist when the alcoholic volitionally chooses to stop drinking.
* certifiable and often incurable disease.
* chronic disease characterized by repeated and uncontrollable drinking of alcohol.
* chronic disease of the brain that is often fatal
  - that can cause emotional and social problems
  - illness characterized by remissions and exacerbations
* chronic illness characterized by the habitual consumption of alcohol
  - intake of alcohol
  - where alcohol is habitually consumed
  - which manifests itself as a disorder of behavior
  - medical disease that can cause emotional and social problems
  - progressive illness
* chronic, incurable, progressive and fatal illness.
* chronic, progressive and sometimes fatal disease
  - progressive, relapsing brain disease
  - relapsing disease
* common predisposing factor.
* complex disease
  - disorder with many different causes and outcomes
* condition with a social stigma.
* continues to be a rampant undetected treatable disorder in the elderly.
* contributes to crime, violence, spousal abuse, and child neglect
  - domestic violence, with sometimes fatal beatings
* costs the community millions of dollars every year.
* cuts across all social, racial and economic lines.
* demands the focus and attention be placed on the drinking alcoholic.
* desvastating and deadly illness.
* disease and it is treatable.
* disease in which a person has an overwhelming desire to drink alcoholic beverages
  - the affected individual is addicted to alcohol
* disease of isolation, so healing together offers the best results
* disease that can be treated
  - start with a first drink
  - happens irrespective of age, class, socio-economic status, etc
  - often tears apart families
  - tends to develop over time and progress through stages
* disease which affects memory and neurochemical pathways in the brain
  - needs the most expert medical care
  - often begins during the teen-age years
  - with many dimensions
* disease, kind of like diabetes or high blood pressure.
* disease-just like diabetes or high blood pressure.
* does nothonor the value of others
  - run along family lines
  - tend to run in families
* erodes an individual's ability to function, physically, emotionally, and spirituality.
* exacerbates hyperglycemia
  - the difficulties of many families
* factor in domestic violence and child abuse which can both lead to homelessness.
* familial illness.
* family disease
  - problem and recovery family struggle
* favours scurvy and anaemia.
* form of chemical dependency.
* has NO social boundaries such as status, race, religion, or sex.
* has a good recovery rate with treatment with the support of the loved ones
  - greater impact, but receives the least public funding, of any major health issue
  - way of repeating itself through generations
  - clear, definable symptoms, like other diseases
  - nothing to do with irresistible impulses or uncontrollable urges
  - physical, social, emotional and behavioral effects
  - physiological factors, genetically determined
  - the characteristics of a disease
* horrible disease that affects many people.
* increases following a severe economic depression.
* is about four times more common in men than in women
  - adisease
* is also a disease that can be acquired over a long period of time
  - rife
  - so widespread, and can ruin somebody's career at any age
  - an acceptable, even socially beneficial, disease for an active geologist
* is an addiction disease, the inability to control one's alcohol consumption
  - addiction, and addiction disease, like cancer
  - epidemic in America that affects the lives of many
  - equal opportunity disease
  - equal-opportunity disease that knows no bounds
  - illness that consumes entire families
* is an illness, and as such, can be effectively treated
  - just like asthma or diabetes
  - older word that refers to a clinical syndrome
  - overwhelming desire to drink alcohol even though it is causing harm
  - another leading cause of cirrhosis and liver cancer
  - called a family disease because it adversely affects everyone around the alcoholic
* is caused all groups of people
  - by genetics, through childhood experiences and as a learned behavior
* is characterized by craving, uncontrolled drinking, tolerance and physical dependence
  - denial
  - chronic, which means it continues for a long time
  - common because of mindnumbing rigidities, regimentation and hopelessness
* is considered a disease
  - to be a disability
  - discussed as it affects the individual and the family
  - drug addiction
  - especially likely when individuals grow up with one or more alcoholic parents
  - frequently fatal
  - hereditary and certain people have a genetic predisposition to alcoholism
  - impaired social function and altered health secondary to excess alcohol intake
  - impulsive behaviour
* is indeed a most costly burden on the whole society
  - problem towards teens
  - irreversible
  - just one of many causes of cirrhosis
  - known to compromise the immune system
  - learned inadequate responses to life's problems
* is more prevalent in disadvantaged populations
  - than double civilian levels
  - nothing to be shamed of because it is genetic
  - often a missed diagnosis requiring a team approach
* is one of our most lethal illnesses-certainly our most misunderstood
  - the major causes of nutritional deficiency in the United States
* is one of the most common illnesses seen by doctors
  - psychiatric disorders in Canada, and one of the most costly
  - prevalent and dangerous addictions in the world
  - serious problems in the United States today
  - oldest and most widespread diseases in Russia
  - saddest diseases around
  - only one of many health and social problems associated with alcohol use
  - our most untreated treatable disease
  - particularly less likely to be recognized in elderly women
  - possibly a risk factor in the etiology of the disease
  - rampant among the desperate and the poor
  - recognized as a major health problem
  - regarded as disabling if it substantially limits a major life activity
  - related to pessimism and vice versa
  - serious at any age
  - something that can be hidden or easy to spot
  - still a very 'subliminal' disease, for the sufferer and loved ones
  - the dependence on, or addiction to, alcohol
* is the disease in which a person is addicted to alcohol
  - produced by the repeated misuse of ethyl alcohol
  - nation's number one health problem
  - ninth leading cause of death in the United States
  - number one drug problem in the United States
* is the primary cause of cirrhosis
  - chemical causing addictive disease in our country
  - second ranking disease in the United States today
  - thought of as a family disease because it affects everyone in the family
  - truly a family disease
  - under diagnosed and under treated in most primary caresettings
  - underrecognized late in life
  - underrecognized, underdiagnosed, and underreported
  - viewed as the number one health and social problem in the Black community
  - widespread and treatable
* kills people.
* knows no racial, social economic or sexual barriers.
* leads to times of withdrawal and low self esteem.
* learned behavior, because no one makes a person drink alcohol.
* lives for itself and itself alone.
* loves gray areas.
* major health problem here in the United States
  - problem as well as drug addiction
  - social and medical problem in the United States and in most of the world
  - social, economic, and public health problem
* means addiction to alcohol.
* mental and physical disease.
* moral weakness.
* often reduces a person's life expectancy by around ten years.
* only affects men.
* painful physical addiction every bit as powerful as the strongest narcotic.
* permanent condition.
* physical addiction, but it is also a very serious sin.
* presents differently in different people.
* primary and chronic disease that families are ashamed about and deny.
* problem in Poland
  - that never goes away, until death
* progressive and fatal disease.
* progressive disease that only gets worse by drinking irresponsibly
  - if untreated
* progressive disease, meaning it can be caused by routine consumption
  - gets worse with time
* progressive illness involving the excessive, inappropriate use of alcohol
  - that gets worse as drinking continues
* relative contraindication.
* remains a scourge in the Native American world.
* results in loss of control.
* risk factor for nutritional deficiency
* ruins the individual physically and emotionally because of the dependency.
* runs in families.
* screws children up.
* self inflicted disease.
* serious and widespread disease
  - social and health problem with no pharmacologic solutions on sight
* starts with that first drink.
* stems from genetic, environmental, and psychosocial factors.
* takes a toll on personal finances, health, social relationships and families.
* tends to beggary, and nearly all beggars, thieves and tramps are given to drink.
* term commonly used to describe the medical disorder of alcohol dependence.
* terrible disease that ruins lives.
* travisty and tradgedy.
* treatable disease that one can recover from with treatment
  - responds to intervention and treatment
* type of drug addiction.
* type of drug dependence that is both psychological and physical
  - with both physical and psychological indications
* usually develops over a period of years
  - slowly, and can happen at any age
  - has strong negative effects on marital relationships.
  * ' is the medical condition of people who often drink too much alcohol. Some people who suffer from alcoholism feel that they have to drink alcohol, even when it causes health and social problems. Alcoholism means addiction to alcohol. People who suffer from it are called 'alcoholics'. Very often, other interests disappear. Many alcoholics do not think they have a problem with drinking alcohol. With time, they better support bigger quantities, and their personality changes.
  * condition with a social stigma. As a result, people suffering from it, avoid being diagnosed or treated, as this may be shameful, or have social consequences. The evaluation responses to a group of standardized questioning common method for diagnosing alcoholism. These can be used to identify harmful drinking patterns, including alcoholism. In general, problem drinking is considered alcoholism when the person continues to drink despite experiencing social or health problems caused by drinking
* very serious disease that affects a large number of people.
* weakens and destroys the body.