Anxiety disorder is a mental illness that can have debilitating effects on the person suffering from it. Oftentimes people with an anxiety disorder will turn to alcohol to numb their symptoms in an attempt to live a “normal” life.  Although alcohol may provide a temporary escape, it does not treat the underlying disorder and will over time increase the severity of anxiety symptoms, causing the individual to continue drinking until dependence or addiction has occurred. Without dual diagnosis treatment at an alcohol rehab, a person will continue the vicious cycle of self-medication with alcohol.
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Alcoholism is a disease that affects more than just the alcoholic; friends, family and co-workers often pay the price for the alcoholic’s behavior. For employers, this price tag is more than just an emotional one. In the United States alone, the cost of alcoholism in the workplace ranges from $33 billion to $68 billion a year, thanks to on-the-job injuries, lost productivity, absenteeism and other factors.
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Over 17 million adults in the United States can be classified as alcoholics or as having a problem with alcohol, but of these, less than 8 percent receive the help they need via alcohol rehabilitation. That’s a sad statistic considering rehabilitation through alcohol addiction treatment is the only way the majority of people will be able to win the battle against their disease. Other alcohol rehabilitation statistics are equally as disturbing.
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Alcoholism causes a variety of physical consequences that are well known and easy to recognize, but it also causes a variety of psychological consequences that people rarely discuss. When people talk about the “effects of alcoholism” they often only talk about the physical effects; people rarely talk about alcoholism and the mental effects. Because of this, many alcoholics will continue to self-medicate their mental symptoms without realizing that their drinking is causing these problems in the first place.
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Drinking alcohol during pregnancy can have devastating effects on your baby and can cause a wide range of physical and mental birth defects. Even having just a few drinks throughout the week can be damaging. According the U.S. Surgeon General, women who binge drink (consume five or more drinks during any one occasion) and women who have five or more drinks a week during pregnancy have a significant chance of giving their unborn baby a range of disorders known as baby fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs). These disorders can be lifelong afflictions and include physical, mental, behavioral and learning disabilities. The most severe effect of drinking during pregnancy is fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), a combination of physical and mental birth defects. FAS is one of the most common causes of mental retardation and is the only cause that is 100% preventable.
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