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  2. Alcoholic polyneuropathy - Wikipedia

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    Alcoholic polyneuropathy is caused primarily by chronic alcoholism; however, vitamin deficiencies are also known to contribute to its development. This disease typically occurs in chronic alcoholics who have some sort of nutritional deficiency. Treatment may involve nutritional supplementation, pain management, and abstaining from alcohol.

  3. Alcohol withdrawal syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Alcoholics who have had two or more alcohol withdrawals show more frontal lobe cognitive dysfunction than those who have experienced one or no prior withdrawals. Kindling of neurons is the proposed cause of withdrawal-related cognitive damage. Kindling from repeated withdrawals leads to accumulating neuroadaptive changes.

  4. Here's What It Means If You're Suddenly Craving Milk - AOL

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    A milk craving may be a sign that you're deficient in one of these nutrients. However, drinking more milk isn't the only solution to this. "Eating a healthy, well-balanced diet can help prevent ...

  5. Why do alcoholics and addicts relapse so often?

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    While relapse is most common during the first year of recovery, people with years of sobriety can resume self-destructive drug use or drinking.

  6. Long-term effects of alcohol - Wikipedia

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    The level of ethanol consumption that minimizes the risk of disease, injury, and death is subject to some controversy. [16] Several studies have found a J-shaped relationship between alcohol consumption and health, [17] [18] [2] [19] meaning that risk is minimized at a certain (non-zero) consumption level, and drinking below or above this level increases risk, with the risk level of drinking a ...

  7. Disease theory of alcoholism - Wikipedia

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    The craving that an alcoholic feels for alcohol can be as strong as the need for food or water. An alcoholic will continue to drink despite serious family, health, or legal problems. Like many other diseases, alcoholism is chronic, meaning that it lasts a person's lifetime; it usually follows a predictable course; and it has symptoms.

  8. Why do alcoholics and addicts relapse so often?

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    Why do so many alcoholics and addicts in recovery relapse, ... People will risk their lives to keep using drugs." Addiction also erodes the addict's or alcoholic's prefrontal cortex, the part of ...

  9. Alcoholic ketoacidosis - Wikipedia

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    Alcoholic ketoacidosis is caused by complex physiology that is the result of prolonged and heavy alcohol intake, usually in the setting of poor nutrition. Chronic alcohol use can cause depleted hepatic glycogen stores and ethanol metabolism further impairs gluconeogenesis .