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Alcohol Abuse



Alcohol Abuse is something that has been going on for a very long time. It has been around just as long as man has and yet there seems that even though it has shown a lot of problems in the society in which we live, that most people don't consider it much of a problem. Even though there has been many indications that consuming too much cases a huge amount of problems in all sorts of areas of our lives, we as a society find it acceptable to continue to ignore it as being such a problem.

I recently heard that they are considering lowering the drinking age to 18, because they think that if they did lower the age, than most of the people wouldn't abuse it, if they were legal to drink. IMO that is just plain insanity! I know that from my own experience that I really didn't do too much abuse on alcohol until after I reached the age to drink. Once I reached that age to drink, I found myself in bars, nightclubs, parties, etc. I felt as if I was invincible and that I had the right to drink as much and as often as I could.

Is what alcohol does it impairs the mind. It will cause you to make decisions that are based on a mind that is not in its normal state which than causes problems in the areas of your life. Alcohol even when drank moderately will cloud you thinking as we all know so when we do abuse it by drinking more than our share (if you will) we than will end up doing things in which we would not normally do. So with alcohol being a controller over the way in which we think it than also has the Power to control the way in which we act. Once this has happened we find that we have crossed a line in which we really have no control over what we are doing because we are not ourselves anymore.

Once alcohol has effected the mind, and let us not forget that it is also effecting our body as well, we have already had the damaging effect even if we don't realize it. Once we have a problem with our physical part such as a liver, kidney, etc than the result of it goes into our brain, and causes what is referred to as THIQ's. Here is something that I found that helps to describe this a little better.

    Heredity studies, done all over the world, clearly show that genetics is far more significant in determining whether or not you'll be an alcoholic than any other single factor. Genetics is more significant than any combination of social or environmental factors examined.

    The report is not saying that a person is born an alcoholic. However, evidence is conclusive that some people are indeed at greater risks to alcoholism because of their heredity, and if they ever start drinking they run a high risk of developing the disease.

    If you love your children don't condemn them with a high chance of getting this disease, stop your drinking!

    T.H.I.Q. was discovered in brains of alcoholics in Houston, Texas by a scientist named Virginia Davis who was doing cancer research. For her study she needed fresh human brains and used bodies of homeless winos who had died during the night and were picked up by Houston police in the morning. 

    She discovered in the brains of those chronic alcoholics a substance that is closely related to Heroin. This substance, known to scientists, is called Tetrahydrolsoqulnoline or THIQ When a person shoots heroin into their body, some of it breaks down and turns into THIQ The Alcoholics studied had not been using heroin so how did the THIQ get there?

    When the normal adult drinker takes in alcohol, it is very rapidly eliminated at the rate of about one drink per hour. The body first converts the alcohol into something called Acetaldehyde. This chemical is VERY TOXIC and if it were to build up inside us, we would get VIOLENTLY SICK AND COULD DIE. But Mother Nature helps us to get rid of acetaldehyde very quickly. She efficiently changes it a couple of more times - into carbon dioxide and water - which is eliminated through kidneys and lungs. That's what happens to normal drinkers. It also happens with alcoholic drinkers, but with alcoholic drinkers something additional happens.

    What Virginia discovered in Huston has been extensively confirmed since. In alcoholic drinkers, a very small amount of poisonous acetaldehyde is not eliminated. Instead it goes to the brain. There through a very complicated biochemical process, it winds up as THIQ 

    Research has found the following:

  1. THIQ is manufactured in the brain and only occurs in the brain of the alcoholic drinker. It is not manufactured in the brain of the normal social drinker of alcohol.

  2. THIQ has been found to be highly addictive. It was tried in experimental use with animals during the Second World War when we were looking for a painkiller less addicting than morphine. THIQ was a pretty good pain killer but t couldn't be used on humans. It turned out to be much more addicting than morphine.

  3. Experiments have shown that certain kinds of rats cannot be made to drink alcohol. Put in a cage with very weak solution of vodka and water., these rats refuse to touch it. They will literally thirst to death before the agree to drink alcohol. However, if you take the same kind of rat and put a minute quantity of THIQ into the rat's brain -- one quick injection -- the animal will immediately develope a preference for alcohol over water.

  4. Studies done with monkeys, our close animal relative in medical terms, show the following:     

             A. Once the THIQ is injected into a monkey's brain, it stays there.

             B. You can keep the monkey dry off alcohol for 7 years but brain studies 

                   show that THIQ remains in place in the brain.

    The alcoholic's body, like normal drinkers, changes the alcohol into acetaldehyde and then it changes most of it into carbon dioxide and water, which in the end kicks out through the kidneys and lungs. However, the alcoholic's bodies won't kick all these chemicals out. The Alcoholic's brain holds a few bits back and transforms them into THIQ. As THIQ is accumulated in the brain of an alhoholic, at some point, maybe sooner, maybe later, the alcoholic will cross over a shadowy line into a whole new way of living.

    It is not known by medical science, at this time, where this line is or how much THIQ an individual brain will pile up before one crosses this line. Some predisposed people cross the line while they're teenagers, or earlier. Others cross in their 30's or 40's and others after retirement. But once this happens the alcoholic will be as hooked on alcohol, as he would have been hooked on heroin if he'd been shooting that instead.

    Now comes the loss of control. Now it's chronic. progressive and incurable. Now it's all to clearly a disease.

I am not implying that it is a disease or not. My opinion is that it is, however it doesn't really matter if it is or not the important part is to find a solution to the problem. If the problem is alcohol than the solution is NOT to DRINK.