Alcohol and Drug Addiction Educational PSA Video

Anti-Alcohol Video PSA. Public domain public service announcement. Alcoholism is a chronic disease that makes your body dependent on alcohol. You may be obsessed with alcohol and unable to control how much you drink, even though your drinking is causing serious problems with your relationships, health, work and finances. It's possible to have a problem with alcohol, but not display all the characteristics of alcoholism. This is known as alcohol abuse, which means you engage in excessive drinking that causes health or social problems, but you aren't dependent on alcohol and haven't fully lost control over the use of alcohol. Although many people assume otherwise, alcoholism is a treatable disease. Medications, counseling and self-help groups are among the therapies that can provide ongoing support to help you recover from alcoholism. Alcoholism is a disease. It is often diagnosed more through behaviors and adverse effects on functioning than by specific medical symptoms. Only 2 of the diagnostic criteria are physiological (those are tolerance changes and withdrawal symptoms). Alcohol abuse and alcoholism are associated with a broad range of medical, psychiatric, social, legal, occupational, economic, and family problems. For example, parental alcoholism underlies many family problems such as divorce, spouse abuse, child abuse and neglect, welfare dependence, and criminal behaviors, according to government sources.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• alcohol
• substance
• chemical
• abuse
• anti-alcohol
• anti
• intoxicated
• addiction
• drinking
• alcoholism
• use
• treatment
• consumption

[sleepnow18]

good vid

[rosaryfilms]

sleepnow18, thank you!

[packofwolves93]

finally a vid that has alcohol with drugs...but whats the bullshit of separating the 2...they are the same thing

[rsohlich1]

@thedirtynasty I agree....actually alcohol is worse than a lot of drugs. I have personally seen the ill effects of alcohol and can say its 100x worse than marijuana. Alcohol may not be as bad as methamphetamine but its not far behind. Its socially accepted because its legal and its embedded in peoples minds from all the beer commercials.

[alberterrror]

not a very big boat

[11visionary11]

Alcoholism is NOT A DISEASE. Its an addiction. Its a choice. Cancer is a disease, MS is a disease, the only ppl who think that over drinking is a disease lack personal responsibility.

[thedirtynasty]

Remind me why alcohol is socially accepted and any different from "drugs".

[marcmarcmarc1000]

alcohol is gayer than christmas :)

[rosa79106]

with god anything is possible

[OrunitaVivi]

Everyone with an addiction is in the same boat?

Good thing I sta sober because I can't swim