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The Alcohol dependence: Definition

It is a substance that affects the central nervous system

2. Alcohol

It is the absorption by an individual of a beverage containing ethanol.

3. BAC

It is the presence of alcohol in the blood.

4. Alcoholism

- Is an alcoholic, those who consume a daily amount of alcohol than that can metabolize it safe, that is about ¾ of a liter of wine at 10 ° for a 70 kg.

- There are alcohol when there is a loss of freedom to refrain from alcohol or when there are complications of medical, psychological and social.

- It replaces the term alcoholism more often the term syndrome of alcohol dependence.

5. Alcohol subject

This is a subject consumers usual alcoholic substances which undergoes significant alteration of its ability to control consumption or has complications.

6. Alcoolopathies

These are all secondary damage in acute alcohol or especially in chronic alcoholism.

7. Alcohol dependence
   
    a.) Physical (or physiological)
  • Is defined by the appearance of a withdrawal syndrome after cessation of alcohol.
        b.) Psychological (or mental)
    • This corresponds to an impulse to absorb alcohol regularly or repeatedly to derive pleasure or to endure a situation experienced as painful. Alcohol is consumed as a psychotropic drug.
    8. Habit

    It is the fact that a subject that consumes a toxic to feel the effects, will want to consume this poison again to feel the effects again.

    9. Tolerance

    It has the property that the body to feel the effects of a precise dose produced no disease symptoms appear. La tolérance est dynamique, c'est à dire qu'elle s'accroît parallèlement à l'augmentation régulière des doses nécessaires pour que les effets obtenus restent les mêmes. Tolerance is dynamic, ie it increases with increasing doses regularly to ensure that the effects obtained are the same. Après plusieurs années, la tolérance s'effondre souvent de façon définitive. After several years, tolerance often collapses for good.

    10. Weaning

    This is to stop taking toxic in a subject dependent. Le syndrome de sevrage alcoolique est l'ensemble des signes pathologiques survenant à la suite de l'arrêt de l'alcoolisation chez un sujet ayant une alcoolo-dépendance physique. The alcohol withdrawal syndrome is the set of signs of disease that occurs following cessation of alcohol in a person with physical alcohol dependence.

    11. Healing

    This is normally the total disappearance of a disease process and in the field of alcohol dependence it is better not to speak of cure, but stabilization.

    12. Stabilization

    This means that a subject maintains a satisfactory condition of equilibrium with an alcohol-free quality of life as it deems proper.