Alcohol news — effects on the brain

Science is learning more and more about the damage caused by long term heavy drinking, and what science is learning helps to explain what healthcare professionals have witnessed. Many people who deal with problems associated with alcoholism have talked about the progression of the disease. Those of us who’ve worked in the field are well aware of the progressive lack of control as time goes on and the alcoholic continues to drink. We speak regularly of stages — early, middle and late stages. Read this article to get a better understanding of why alcoholism gets progressively worse and impulse control becomes more difficult when the alcoholic doesn’t abstain from alcohol.