Alcoholism?

Question

How do I know if a person that i know is an alcoholic?

Answer 1

!st look for bottles of rum or beers hidding in places that not many peoplewould look, even inside toilet's tank. Tyr to know if there is blood in the excrement. Watch is the white part of the eyes turns yellow and eyes vains get big and verry red. Tommy grows maostly of the times. Spots in the skin. Many hours of sleeping, more than the usual for a normal person. Abscentism in school or work. Agriveness behavior. Sleepless during the night. Drinks alone and almost every day. This are just few of the alerts, the phisical alerts can be because a liver problem as corrisis or hepapititis. My father passed away because to much drinking, cirrosis, and I don't want this to happen to anyone else, is very painful. Good luck, and one of the 1st steps for a person to wish to want to be cure is the admition of the problem.

Answer 2

Alcoholics don't necessarily start drinking allot a tone time. They do tend to drink on schedule, every Friday and Saturday, those 4-6 beers after work, to much at social function, then into denial and hiding of bottles. Me I just spent most of my time at the bar, at first nursing a drink then drinking much faster, and going home and drinking more. I seldom got drunk, this is 'not' a prerequisite to being an alcoholic. It is actually how you drink not how much you drink. Anybody with a drinking pattern or a pattern of over drinking, even just on weekends, might be alcoholic.

Answer 3

There are so many different types of alcoholics, they can drink all day long, have a couple drinks with dinner everything- drink everynight at the bar, basically if a person is always drinking, always smelling like alcohol, and are upset and angry when they can't drink, more than likely they are an alcoholic.

Answer 4

If they say things like I need a drink or I'm happy where is that
bottle or I'm upset I'm going to go to the bar they are no longer
using alcohol as a beverage.
If they say I need a hair of the dog or I need a drink to take the edge
off my shakes. They are beginning to acquire an addiction.
If they can't stay sober before noon drink alone or spend all their
money on alcohol they have a begun to have a problem.
If they have a stroke and are flopping around on the floor they
may be to far advanced for any help.
At what point you feel someone has Alcoholism is up to you.

Answer 5

It's not a matter of if they are an Alcoholic or HEAVY DRINKER.....Does their drinking affect you, their family life, their ability to function, keep social engagments, keep their word.
Do they lie about drinking?
Do they black out?

There are 3 types of Alcoholics
1. the binge drinker-- partier who blacks out
2. the everyday Heavy drinker
3. last but not least the Weekender Friday -Sunday night.

Your friend will often make excuses for being late.
Will call in sick on Monday's
Smell of alcohol/they sweat it out of their pours, has an odd oder
They drink morning, noon, and night.
If your friend hides their drinking habit, or hides empty bottles.

If you have a problem with someone's drinking I suggest you contact www.alanon.org.za

If your friend has the desire to stop drinking,
you can look in your local phone book and find AA
www.alcoholics-anonymous.org

Answer 6

Key symptoms of alcoholism: inability to stop after two or three drinks; problems associated with drinking (DUI's/arrests, public intoxication, upset family and friends); unhappiness and remorse following drinking episodes.

Answer 7

I'm a nurse. The signs are pretty obvious, like having to have it most of the time. Also doing nothing else but drink, lose jobs and isolate themselves to some degree. I hope this gives you some idea. I guess a person who surrounds their life around drinking.

Answer 8

If they cannot seem to go one day without a drink, then they have a drinking problem. If they drink to excess every day, then they are an alcoholic.

Answer 9

They smell of alcohol even when their not drinking.

Answer 10

The person drinks to excess on a regular basis.