Addicts seldom stop to think about exactly what it is that the liquor they are drinking does to their bodies. However, if someone were to show them how it degrades their organs, damages their kidneys, messes with the acid in their stomach and breaks the veins on their faces, and the long term effects of those, perhaps they would have a very different view of what their drinking does to them.
Alcoholism is characterized in three main stages. The first is that of the heavy drinker who doesn’t necessarily drink during the day but at night becomes completely drunk, every time they are around alcohol. The next is found in the form of dependence where a person cannot get through their normal day without having a little drink here and there. It becomes a crutch that they need to keep coming back too. In the final stage, drinking occurs practically non-stop and the person in question cannot function at all without alcohol.
And what do all these stages have in common? Well, they are destroy the human body in varying degrees. The most important symptom of alcoholism on the body is the destruction of brain cells. No matter what anyone tells you, alcohol does affect the brain and can kill off certain brain cells that you need to function. It also creates a mental dependency on alcohol and you start to believe that without it, you cannot do anything.
Beyond that is the destruction of the throat, the changing of pH in the stomach, the effects on the pancreas that controls the sugar levels in the body and of course, the destruction of your poor liver. The liver’s job is to filter out toxins and when you give it too much to filter out, it cannot cope and will eventually stop working. The kidneys of alcoholics also have to work overtime to keep up with the urea that needs to leave the body and they become tired. Imagine having to do your job for 22 hours a day, rather than 8. It would leave you tired, and this is exactly what happens to your body. For more information on all your alcohol rehab needs go to to rehab.