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Overview
toc [|Alcoholism] is a very bad disease that many people are unaware of. A lot of people know that is exists, but don't understand the severity of it. People suffering from the disease need help and everyone around them should try to help them. Another thing is that it can be difficult to break an addiction, but with the proper approach, everyone can overcome these addictions and be on their way to a healthier, better lifestyle ("Alcoholism").

Young People
A problem of alcoholism is that it can start at an early age and stay with you for your whole life. Statistics show that kids that drink alcohol on some occasion before the age of 21 have a higher risk of becoming an alcoholic. Children who grow up with one or more parent that is an alcoholic have a greater risk to become an alcoholic ("Current"). Kids also have a bigger risk to make bad decisions while drinking because they are unexperienced with the feeling and are still less mature than people who are of age to drink.

Health Risks
Another problem is that it can lead to many different types of cancers like voice box, pancreas, liver, mouth, throat, esophagus, colon, rectum, and breast cancer. Drinking can also make you more likely to get heart conditions like heart disease, atrial fibrillation, and cardiomyopathy. Binge drinking can affect mental health, too. People can hallucinate and have schizophrenic like symptoms. Being an alcoholic can also affect the health of others like making them stressed and making them want to drink ("Alcohol").

Getting Help and Drunk Driving
Other problems are that many people don't or can't get the help they need and that binge drinking can lead to drunk driving. Sometimes, rehabilitation centers can charge outrageous amounts of money, making it harder to get help. Other times, the person doesn't want to quit because they don't think it's a problem or their family won't support them. Drunk driving kills or injures thousands of people each year. The people who drive drunk often think that they aren't too drunk and are usually alcoholics (T, Buddy).

Awareness
A solution to these problems is to make more people aware of alcoholism and how to deal with it. There are a lot of people who don't understand that being an alcoholic is very bad and dangerous. There are different charities that donate to people who need help with their problem, but they can't help everyone suffering without the help of others. People don't really see the problem with alcoholism or don't care as much about it because it isn't as big of an issue as things like drugs and murder ("Alcoholism").

Monitoring
A way to prevent alcoholism is to crack down on teenagers who drink. If parents and other adults can monitor underage drinking, it will help prevent alcoholism. Binge drinking starts at an early age so being more strict can decrease the number of grown up alcoholics. Teenagers are also the people who drive drunk the most and are the people who make the worst decisions while drunk. These decisions can include unprotected sex and vandalism ("Did").

Intervention
Another solution could be to have an intervention to help the person realize they need help and to show them how to get it. In an intervention, there are usually close friends and immediate family members lead by a hired intervention leader. At interventions, the friends and family members try to convince the alcoholic to quit or go to rehab so they can get better and break the addition. Sometimes at interventions, the person refuses to get help. That person needs more convincing to go to a rehab place because they don't understand the harm the alcohol is causing (T, Buddy).

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