Psy 500 - Week 7 Literature Review

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The key factor that decides whether or not a person is drunk is called their Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) or basically how much alcohol is in your bloodstream at one time. When a person has to much alcohol in their system it can affect many things about their behavior. Alcohol affects things such a talkativeness, judgement, coordination, concentration, reasoning, blunted feelings, and emotional mood swings.

With the information from these articles, I went and did research on the topic and found that many people that suffer from alcoholism also had a family member or members that also suffered from this disease. Many people do not realize that a child that is being raised by an alcoholic will have conflicting emotional issues that will need to be worked on so that the child does not have the same problem when they get older. In the first article that I found, it talks about the types of medication that can be used to treat alcoholism. The reason that they are using medication to treat excessive alcohol use is because it is looked at as being a neuropsychiatric disease that is effecting society more and more each day. These medications are being used to help with the degree of addiction that some have and some are actually used to cause the person to become sick when they drink. This causes them not to want the alcohol. That is what the medication is supposed to do.

As I continued to research this topic I found that many have challenged the use of medication to solve the problem with alcoholism. This is because of the genetic side of alcoholism. If you look at the fact that it can be a genetic side to the fact of why individuals were not able to control their alcohol consumption.

References

Spanagel, r., Dustewitz, D., Hansson, A., Heinz, A., Kiefer, F., Kohr, G., &…Zimmermann, U.S. (2013. Asystems medicine research approach for studying alcohol addiction. Addiction Biology, 18(6), 883-896. Doi: 10.1111/adb.12109