Which Are the Causes of Alcoholism?

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Prof.: Adrian Zabala

Which are the Causes of Alcoholism?


First of all, Alcoholism is a chronic, often progressive disease in which a person feels a strong need, or compulsion, to drink liquor despite repeated alcohol related problems. Alcoholism involves loss of control and physical dependence on alcohol, when people stop drinking after a period of heavy consumption of alcohol, they begin to feel sick, but have you ever thought which are all the causes of alcoholism? Nowadays, Alcoholism is caused by several factors, among which we can find biological, family environmental, socials and phychological.

To start, biological predisposition can lead people to suffer alcoholism.   In the first place, genes influence the risk of alcoholism. For example, people who have alcoholic parents...