There are quite a few of normal family men, successful in career and family who enjoy drinking every day but would not want to admit that they are alcoholics. We find many such men who cannot go to bet without having their regular quota of drinks everyday. They begin by saying that few drinks help them relax and feel good and do not admit to the fact that they are becoming addicted to drinking. After a few years, they find it impossible to kick the habit. Even then they would not like to admit or seek help.
It is not as if these people do not know the harmful effect that drinking can have on their health. Knowing well the ill effects they often indulge in the habit just because they are unable to fight their addiction. They lack the strength to overcome and resist the temptation to drink. No amount of emotional appeal, cajoling, coaxing and advising from their family members can prompt them to fight the habit.
If such habit is allowed to continue, it can turn them into alcoholics few years down the line. Most often when people are used to drinking find themselves in difficult situations or emotional stress, they resort to drinking to forget their troubles rather than face and fight their troubles. While the habit of drinking over takes them, they slowly loose out on their relationships, family, home as well as money to their drinking habit.
Yes such people who profess that they are under control are not likely to accept their weakness easily. They continue believing in the falsehood until they find that the alcohol has taken its toll on their health or some other health complication arises shaking them up completely. In cases where people get a heart attack or contract any major illness, they wake up to the reality. But then it becomes very difficult to kick a habit that has been formed over years. The effect of so called social drinking can be fatal too. Many people develop cirrhoses of liver as well as other complications like brain hemorrhage etc.
Of course we have extensive medical as well as non medical facilities available in all cities in the world over to fight alcoholism. Doctors can prescribe treatment to help patients fight the addiction. There are drugs that help the patients grow averse to alcohol. One such famous drug is Antabuse which in fact was the first drug to be approved by US FDA for treatment of alcohol abuse. Antabuse works to develop aversion to alcohol wherein the patient after consuming alcohol while he has taken antabuse will face severe hangover resulting in headache, hot flush, increased heart beat, vomiting, blurred vision and incoherence etc. These horrible after affects build an aversion to alcohol for the fear of going through such after effects again. The person chooses to kick the habit of drinking alcohol to avoid reoccurrence of such unpleasantness.
Take heed to warning today. It is better to approach and seek medical help today to fight your habit of social drinking rather than inviting major irreversible damage to your body. Save yourself and save your Family too after all you have got only this one life to live. Live it well.