Hey friends! the last time I blogged, I said that I will post about some questions that I regularly get asked by people when they get to know that I did my internship in a De-addiction center. Well today I have come up with yet another question, that even I was very curious to know and it did bother me especially in the beginning, as I myself was supposed to know what it meant and why so people do such things. But once i got to know, I started looking at these people in a different way, not what the general public or a laymen would think of them. 

A very simple answer to the question why do people drink or smoke? Can be explained in the 3F.
1. For fun.
2. Functions or vacations
3. Forget or reduce Their pain.

Alcohol and caffeine are commonly used beverages that lead addiction. Consider 100% of alcohol consumed. From that 95% gets consumed in the body and mixes with the bloodstream, which increases the blood alcohol concentration. Blood mixed with alcohol then affects the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for your behavior. The remaining 5% of the alcohol then leaves the body via sweat or urine.

There is no age gap for the consumption of alcohol or any other addictive substance, but research has found that men between the age group of 45 to 50 consume more alcohol. Youngsters count for only 8.3% of that population. 

There are researchers that show us that men are major consumers of alcohol than women. One good reason for this would be that the body fat and water ratio of women is more than men and hence men need more alcohol to consume to feel the effect of substance or the kick of it. Other reason would be dopamine. Dopamine is a happy hormone and it is associated with the feeling of good after doing something, such as having fast food or drinking a beverage or having sex. It is found out that men produce more dopamine than women and hence end up drinking more than women.

Psychologically speaking, and addict eventually becomes restless, feels insecure or starts hallucinating, also known as Hallucinosis. Hallucinosis are auditory harassing nations that occur either before or after consumption. An addict also finds difficulty in memory or there is distorted memory function, also known as karsakoff  psychosis. Due to severe brain damage, person is unable to store or retrieve information.

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