January 4, 2009
- Alcoholism Common and Serious
Did you know that alcoholism is a common and deadly disease? Physicians have begun to associate cancers with alcoholism. They also see many examples of diseases related to alcoholism including alcohol-related cirrhosis, cardiomyopathy, gastrointestinal bleeding and pancreatitis. There are even those that suffer the consequences of alcoholism without even putting alcohol to their lips. These include the innocents that suffer from fetal alcohol syndrome, a leading cause of mental retardation. Other serious consequences of alcoholism include the traffic accidents that drinking and driving cause, depression and dementia suffered by those with the disease, suicide, and homicide linked to alcoholism and the risk to children of alcoholic parents that they too might suffer someday the same illness
