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A “crash” course-type of reading on alcoholism and alcohol related problems designed to help you understand this disease and help yourself or your beloved ones. It is intended for a large range of readers - both licensed professionals and lay persons - all heavy, moderate, mild or NON- alcohol drinkers. A must-read text derived from decades of treating alcoholism by the author and from teaching alcoholism to undergraduate students.

Excerpts from this book aimed at giving you further valuable information on alcohol and alcoholism:

Under natural circumstances, pleasure rewards those actions that are useful for survival, inviting a person to perform and repeat them. Alcohol and the other addictive drugs are substances that can interfere and perturb the natural functioning of the reward centers in the brain. One may say that, through its spreading and effects, alcohol is the most important addictive drug.

• Alcoholism is a disease and not a shameful or guilty vice.
• The alcoholic is not a bad person, he is just a sick one.
• There exist no well-defined border between the alcoholic and the non-alcoholic drinker.
• Alcohol is toxic for the nervous cells.
• Alcoholism produces redoubtable medical and psychiatric complications.
• Alcoholism produces extensive family and social complications.

There is no such thing as people who cannot become alcoholics through alcohol consumption; there exist only people who have not yet had the time of absorbing enough alcohol to be considered alcoholics. A glass of alcohol cannot pass through the organism without also influencing it on a long-term basis.

Read more about this book aimed at helping you or your beloved ones here.