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Workers and intellectuals

Who would believe that the beer in the evenings or a pair of glasses in a good company can turn a respectable man in a hidden alcoholic? Scary doctors tell you? If! As you know, it all starts with small things. And the important role played here by the type of personality and profession.

If you try, you can make a map of alcohol and great talent. Almost in every country you will find dozens of bars and eating houses where zahazhivali famous writers and musicians in search of inspiration.

Journalists, artists, doctors, monitoring drug treatment - the most risky profession in the alcohol group of fans. That is quite predictable - creative personalities are always looking for the truth in wine. But how to explain that people breathe in the back of art representatives mundane professions?

"Alcoholism is common among physicians - surgeons and anesthesiologists and intensive care, because the profession has a certain effect," - says the statistics and personal observations Eugene Brune, chief specialist-psychiatrist Russian Ministry of Health. - They have a different status, risky situations, stress at work. Some time ago in the risk group included drug treatment. "

And office workers. Because the work is monotonous. Businessmen. For meetings and negotiations.About the stevedores, mechanics and everything is clear.

"Drinking in general is very often associated with poverty, with an unsettled life, with some difficult situations" - adds Eugene Brune.

From a psychological point of view of each can be justified, they say, such a work. In fact, the work does not play a key role. The matter of pleasure hormone - dopamine .

Alcohol causes increased release of dopamine - a neurotransmitter that stimulates the sense of satisfaction and pleasure. Permanent alcohol intake depletes its reserves, because with each new intake of alcohol is a rapid replenishment of dopamine deficiency and its equally rapid destruction. This is where the vicious cycle begins: man wants to pleasure, dopamine deficiency, therefore, to return to its former state, have to drink more often.

The alcoholic is inherited

The popular claim that drinking a couple of the future are born alcoholics, lacked a medical reason.

"Gene alcoholism does not exist. Now recovered about seven genes that increase the risk for alcoholism. These are different things. The very same hereditary alcoholism is transmitted. All this must be clearly understood, "- says the chief psychiatrist.

So that in a dysfunctional family dysfunctional children grow most frequently to blame environment, not genes.

Who does not risk, that is drinking

Boredom - another risk factor. Domestic drunkenness begins with it. The mechanism is the same - lack of experience, and therefore dopamine.

"On the one hand, non-working pensioners at risk. On the other hand - we see a splash of alcohol abuse among young mothers who stay at home and do not work. There are those who begin to drink champagne or beer "- leads the unexpected data Eugene Brune.

"Drinking in general is very often associated with poverty, with an unsettled life, with some difficult situations" - adds Eugene Brune.

From a psychological point of view of each can be justified, they say, such a work. In fact, the work does not play a key role. The matter of pleasure hormone - dopamine .

Alcohol causes increased release of dopamine - a neurotransmitter that stimulates the sense of satisfaction and pleasure. Permanent alcohol intake depletes its reserves, because with each new intake of alcohol is a rapid replenishment of dopamine deficiency and its equally rapid destruction. This is where the vicious cycle begins: man wants to pleasure, dopamine deficiency, therefore, to return to its former state, have to drink more often.

The alcoholic is inherited

The popular claim that drinking a couple of the future are born alcoholics, lacked a medical reason.

"Gene alcoholism does not exist. Now recovered about seven genes that increase the risk for alcoholism. These are different things. The very same hereditary alcoholism is transmitted. All this must be clearly understood, "- says the chief psychiatrist.

So that in a dysfunctional family dysfunctional children grow most frequently to blame environment, not genes.

Who does not risk, that is drinking

Boredom - another risk factor. Domestic drunkenness begins with it. The mechanism is the same - lack of experience, and therefore dopamine.

"On the one hand, non-working pensioners at risk. On the other hand - we see a splash of alcohol abuse among young mothers who stay at home and do not work. There are those who begin to drink champagne or beer "- leads the unexpected data Eugene Brune.