Medications Treating Alcoholism

Medications Treating Alcoholism - by Leonard Konis - Helium

Alcoholism is a chronic disease, and frequently tends to be genetically attributed to family members. Nearly 18 million Americans afflicted by this disease and 2.2 million of them seek help. Alcoholism affects 10 to 20 percent of men and three to ten percent of women. Symptoms associated to alcoholism is craving or compulsive desire to drink, causing impaired control, physical dependence, and increase tolerance or increasing amounts of alcohol, in order to feel its effects.