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a recovering alcoholic on why giving up is so hard. here's your host dr costin like you tot eh eh. hello and welcome to check if you ever said to yourself oh just another sip of wine oh for just one. and tomorrow i will stop. and it's not that easy sometimes alcohol can become a problem ok. this is just great use. we met a young woman in berlin who told us what it's like when you try to wash away your problems with a call. by mia even as a kid i knew i had issues that i didn't deal very well with my emotions that i

always feel out of place i'm either a maternal high or i'm completely miserable. been ordered to put the book. stands at the glass eye the 1st time i had alcohol it was like falling in love for the 1st time. and it appears and boy and i have such a feeling of exhilaration of lightness death of this life. kind of. fire it wasn't the reason why i started drinking but i did have a traumatic experience my best friend who had studied with committed suicide and i was the one who found her and he had off before the bar after that i could tell myself that i needed a drink because i'd had this terrible experience likely his and it. looked at if the absolute local interest altered in my 3rd visit to rehab i

barricaded myself in my apartment for 12 days and had 4 to 6 bottles of alcohol delivered every day. order that i'm off from my partner at the time took me to the emergency room 3 times and they kept me in hospital. in cup of a tough and when you detox and you deny your body what you've been bingeing on and you sweat your heart rate says alcohol withdrawal is one of the few with girls that can be deadly i couldn't sleep couldn't eat i shouldn't the whole time i was a physical wreck and. i've been at that i haven't had a drink for 18 months and i don't think about alcohol at all i don't even want it i don't have any cravings. it was a self-help group from alcoholics anonymous about how they gave me back my will to

live and a sense of clarity joy and freedom. for. myself i know i'm an alcoholic and that if i start drinking. and i won't survive. luckily she managed to get a grip on herself and managed to change her life for the better and now i'm meeting somebody who is helping people to do this and yes lots. and only a flat full is a social worker and addiction therapist for over 18 years he's worked as an addict cancelling center in berlin. we like to approach people as early as possible to find out whether alcohol reduction is still possible also bright is the better solution. to lots of low and we just saw in the report was in her early

twenty's when she got addicted to alcohol and is sitting in age here 1000000 that ya know that's pretty young that's really really young but we observe that people are common earlier stages and early ages to our counseling office one thing is that berlin is the party of capital right now there's a lot of drinking and drug taking going on but the other thing is also that people who might be a little early aware of that is something wrong with the arkle cancer ok we will continue to talk in just a moment and talk about how to moderately drink alcohol but 1st let's take a look at what happens in your body and in your organs and we think our core. alcohol affects the body from the moment the 1st sip passes your lips in your stomach it stimulates the production of gastric acids and irritates the stomachs mucous lining i've got an alcohol is then absorbed by the intestine into

a large vessel called the portal vein and through that into the liver delivers very close by and therefore especially at risk because a lot of alcohol flows directly from the stomach into the liver filtered. the liver eliminates almost all the alcohol and detoxifies the body what a comp write down goes to the brain. within minutes the alcohol reaches the cerebrum 'd the organ responsible for thought processes decision making and emotions. 'd intoxication depresses the central nervous system making the nerve cells working stream and slowly the brain is unable to cope. alcohol attacks the main control center leading eventually to completely collapse. alcohol also puts a strain on the heart survey of $3000.00 beer drinkers each with a blood alcohol level of around 0.8 so that one in 3 gets kartik arrhythmia.

one and 4 suffer from a racing heart beat or tucking cardia. after recovery period of half a day the heart rate normalizes again. when the heart stops pumping properly blood begins to build up in the liver if the liver is already damaged by alcohol the backlog of blood in the liver causes additional damage which worsens its condition. but. that. although the liver becomes spotty it continues to function the liver has one fatal flaw believe it to needs to be liver doesn't hurt so many alcohol drinkers stunned realized if the liver was sick they can only find out if their check of the doctor is perhaps once a year if they regularly drink high amounts of alcohol the doctor can do a blood test and see if the liver values are ok.

after getting drunk the cerebellum is the 1st to recover after about 8 to 10 hours it coordinates movement in language. the frontal lobe controls judgment behavior and emotion. it returns to normal 12 to 14 hours later. 2 days after being intoxicated the brain is fully recovered and works almost as well as before although some nerve cells are missing that's. just those missing cells because we have great ability to compensate for this loss in. the stomach to can absorb the damage even after a lengthy drinking career it recovers after one or 2 months of the booze what about the liver. the old friends are doing when people stop drinking the liver can regenerate you may not be quite as healthy as before but it can stabilize and that's a big advantage for type. likewise the heart recovers after 2 months about alcohol . drinking

a lot of alcohol damages the brain there is memory loss and learning gets difficult but that too can be reversed after one to 2 months of abstinence the brain recovers healthy brain parts take on new functions. you haven't seen does women age 30 if you stop drinking alcohol in time most of the organs can regenerate when it's always good to stop drinking alcohol because it improves organ function. even with advanced liver disease survival rates are better than if you continue drinking so at the end of the day it's best to quit. we just saw in the report that alcohol consumption can really harm our body but still people like to drink 'd is to something like a healthy alcohol consumption well years back the health organization said that 30 grams for men and 20 grams for women per day. ok if you have 2

days in a week off but the last years health organization said that actually good for nothing it's just poison for the body so. drink as less as possible that sometimes is not that easy not to drink so how important is social pressure to go into all of this and it depends on the social group you live and the groups it's very important to drink alcohol maybe al gore is even in the center of all the people teas but there are other groups especially of young people who have a very healthy and mindful lifestyle and also drink very mindful when somebody considered being an alcoholic when he has lost control that's one very important thing and the other thing is if our goal has already influenced many parts of your life and has damaged many parts of your life and still you go on drinking then you

are over the top we go to view a question and if you ask us up to what percentage of pure alcohol can my drink have so that it's not harmful it's not so easy to say we say just avoid hard alcohol i mean the stronger the alcohol is you drink the more influence it has on has it on the body and so just to stay with beer maximum wine what has to happen to become an alcoholic. you 1st thing is you have to lose control of it and then you start to use alcohol to solve problems and to regulate your emotions if you do this one time this might be not too harmful but if you do it again and again so that it becomes a pattern you are in trouble after a while so if i want to drink a little less in my life how can i start how you can make a list of pros and contrast and write down what would be the advantage

if you could be able to drink less then you can use a drink diary just write down when what which amount with whom you drink on which occasions and you can have it is an app. or an online guide also and there are also drink less programs available and the. last part of used to go to your addiction counseling center. on this i've never idea whenever you like to drink and drink but go to your computer and send me your questions directly to ask our experts. will be talking about antibiotics prescription rates are on the rise and so it's resistant what are the consequences and what alternatives are there send your questions to in good shape bhakti w dot com just antibiotics in the subject line we look forward to hearing from you . at all abuse is the world but problem and our coal consumption is

on the rise over the last 30 years 70 percent especially in countries like india or in china but people are drinking here in europe to number one is the way they are now let's take a look at africa there are people are drinking more in the south than in the north our d.w. correspondent. was taking a look at one of the few rehabilitation centers in nigeria look how they're treating patients that. even him older brother has come to take him home the former alcoholic spent more than a year living at this rehabilitation center. in the nick he. knows the nation before i was brought to this center i was always coming back home drunk i used to take different types of drugs. my family was not happy and that's

why they brought me here 10 hewn i have a brand new person now and i've assured them that i will never go back to drugs i begin to hear though. even him says that thanks to the treatment he's received here he has now put his addiction by. hind him he's looking forward to starting his life afresh. the rehabilitation center and could do now in northern nigeria is one of the few in the country founded 13 years ago it houses more than 200 recovering addicts and it services are in high demand the people just keep coming. it is also a skill acquisition center so what patients are undergoing treatment they are taught different skills that they can turn into small businesses once they're fully recovered. many also attend lessons in a makeshift classroom the teachers are themselves recovering addicts while the

founder al-hadi my dearie says he has helped found scenes of patients. and i been using my knowledge of traditional and islamic medicine to treat them. i see this as my contribution to reducing the problem of children getting into drugs . but the materials methods are harsh. those living here have to wear uniforms their feet are also chained together all the time. we're only able to get a few shots of the chains because madeira doesn't want us to film them he also won't answer questions about the practice on camera things. he tells us it is to keep the inmates from running away some of them up brought in by their families and are not here of their own free will. or into war we show the footage from the rehab

center to mental health physician dr i'm a minute kaderi. the wear uniform all she's shocked by what she sees for this man is in circles that is dehumanizing reppert leg. institutionalizing the dinner hour medic who. showed that this can take wood for what the court can require restring that we have them evenly down volume now we have them to manage that would restrain d.m. she says nigeria lacks qualified mental health professionals who could help those with drug and alcohol problems there's a deficit huge one in that group comments i a profession us so would be surprised there's a lot of or people that claim to know what to do what they are doing this is a pattern bomb waiting to explode so dr derry says and i cheer ian's need to take the issue of drug and alcohol addiction more seriously. in the

meantime many have no choice but to seek help from people like al hakim a jury and his rehabilitation center in katrina. are there specific indicators for alcohol abuse and dependence. we speak of alcohol abuse somebody is used to manipulate his feelings by alcohol or force good feelings and kick off bad feelings and if this. ensures. different. things in your life for example your social relationships or your work abilities are something like this and you still can't stop or cut down your drinking then you are dependent ok in syria fine line when you can say that somebody is dictator goal is the number of dreams or is it more what the whole class to you it's more what they are called just to you it's not always the amount

of alcohol you drink for example if you have other things that make your life nice and. worth living you don't depend so much on somebody who is. sitting there maybe unemployed and has his bottle of wine this bottle of wine means a lot more to him ok and if somebody says ok i want to create i want to kick the habit can he do this on his own or does he always think it's difficult because most people tend to hide this problem and that's a trap you have to go out to talk to people and maybe your friends and related are not able to help you like a professional is able to under so it's best to go to a counseling center like ours as early as possible ok so that it's better to seek some professional help but if i'm not a professional drug advisor somebody would come to me as

a friend can i help him. yes or you can give feedback. hardcore warm critic of possible talk about your feelings you have emotions you experiences and try to avoid things like you should and you have and you must things like that you know so if somebody is addicted to alcohol it's a problem of the whole family because everybody suffers from that so like like the kids small kids big adolescence do they need help too in some cases yes and the poor thing should be that the family members talk with each other about the problem also with the addicted person possible but in some cases they should go to a counseling center also. they can have a counseling for related as well and in some cases it's good to go to a self-help group ok so if you want to quit don't want to drink anymore and you

need professional help and there are several phases of the withdrawal process so do we have to start with a doctor even in the hospital for instance best would be to go to addiction counseling center. of course they know everything about all these processes but you need some script from the doctor to go to a hospital and have a detox there but we can also tell somebody what's going on and what you can do after this detoxing process is it very important to do this inside the hospital or can you even do this like an outpatient if you are physically addicted you should go to hospital that it can be dangerous to do it by yourself because you can get cramps holds nations and all the bad things that you never want to experience one problem is that many a holiday so when successfully through a detox program still relapse even after years why is it so hard to get it.

some people don't take it so serious as they should because i call is a psych who active substance that means it inflates your feelings and emotions and people have to deal with this. to get really rid of this problem and many people are not ready for that one question remaining why are people getting addicted in the 1st place and researchers are trying to find this out and they're trying to cure the addiction using roofie pick them out. a nice drop even at lunchtime sometimes relaxed approach to intoxicating drinks is a bit too relaxed the world health organization says 3000000 people die every year well twice from alcohol abuse. why is moderate drinking so difficult. to keep. drugs kidnap our system in

a very powerful way and then change the system you're a chemically at a molecular level but especially on an epi genetic level you're here drugs can cause very powerful effects and in some cases may start a program that last. a lifetime in need. why do people become addicted. publish many studies on brain and addiction has come up once a month says he and his team mostly do research on addicted rats and mice. so to what extent can their results be applied to humans. in the suit. when it comes to addiction it's been shown that animals ultimately show the same behavior patterns the same progression of disease as humans and we can see many many processes an animal's the same as in humans. he knows who seem to when it comes to research involving juman so we're limited we can do

a sky we can do you an addict testing neuro imaging studies but after that you come up against ethical boundaries and. cessna's e.t.c consumer research has found that the control center in the attic sprain is no longer in control instead it's the reward system that starts to take over and increasingly takes the lead. in consumed can create a craving for a drug so powerful that i can fight. the rat hair is addicted to alcohol it quickly learns to press the lever to get more. point humans get to the stage they drink on all occasions and the pope parties in the office and also in front of the t.v. . they do this even though they know the alcohol homes the body the problem is a near

a transmitter contributor might. be if we find that the glutamate charge exists i'm overshoots the it's like a powerful hyper excitability in the system which then paralyzes the control centers the. the scrum now goes colleague pay to kids is looking to basically reprogram the brain. is developing a kind of brain training to help alcoholics escape the vicious cycle the method is called neurofeedback during an m.r.i. scan the subjects are shown images of alcohol called cues and have to try to overcome that desire for it simply through the power of the mind. the. skin of the subjects in the scanner get the signal from their brains own reward system here they're seeing a picture of alcohol of the same time. i. believe that their job now is to bring down the activity and the reward system is built to stephen want us or involves

regulations that are monitor from the hot red yellow colors to the blue green colors didn't blow on gordon so it would be. what happens in the brain during this process that's yet to be researched but the method seems to work patients say they regained control. and initial round to my study was just a few subjects found that they have less desire for alcohol than the control group now is conducting a larger study with more than 100 alcohol dependent patients. experience of being able to say i can regain control of my addiction and of my life i can just have a very very important part of the successful treatment of addiction patients. like my loved ones with but. it's high time for her betrayal drinkers to rethink before it's too late.

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