Abstract
Alcohol disorder has become a problem facing many people in the world right now. Programs and guidelines should be implemented to ensure that proper diagnosis and treatment of people with alcohol use disorder require incorporating this knowledge into clinical practice and the training of health care personnel. Alcohol disorder’s impacts on public health affect not only heavy drinkers, alcoholics, and people with alcohol use disorders but also non-consumers.
Introduction
The main causes of alcohol include trauma and health dangers, significantly contributing to alcoholism. A few hallmarks of alcoholism are an overwhelming urge to drink, a lack of self-control when cutting back or quitting, and a physiological withdrawal state when alcohol usage is reduced or stopped. There is a correlation between alcohol consumption and adverse outcomes such as injuries, decreased productivity at work, higher healthcare and mental health costs, and more criminal and violent behavior.
Literature Review
Alcoholism is characterized by an intense urge to drink that leads to problems with self-control, a rise in the importance of drinking over other activities, and a refusal to cut down or stop drinking despite its detrimental effects on one’s life. There is generally a strong desire to drink alcohol at these events (Witkiewitz, 2019). Tolerance to the effects of alcohol, withdrawal symptoms upon cessation or reduction in use, and recurrent use of alcohol or pharmacologically comparable substances to prevent or alleviate withdrawal symptoms are all physiological aspects of dependence that may be present.
A lack of self-control regarding alcohol use and alterations in areas of the brain linked with the execution of motivating activities and the management of stress and mood are both characteristics of alcohol use disorder. One of the most important factors that play a significant role in determining an individual’s drinking behaviors is the degree to which that person uses both positive and negative reinforcement tactics.
Methods
The primary approach is to analyze innovative models or tactics for widespread deployment by focusing on a particular system or organizational elements that enable such implementation. Decision-making, funding for preventative and treatment programs, personnel and training, and data systems are all examples of such multi-level considerations. In multiple systems, including those at the state and municipal levels, Neurotransmitters containing substances like dopamine control drinking patterns. However, this method should be de-implemented because the medicine has not been scientifically proven to lower the interest in consuming alcohol. The reinforcement of drinking alcohol negatively is taking more corticotropin-releasing components and neurotransmission mechanisms that regulate the amount of alcohol intake in the body.
We have implemented alcohol disorder treatments to prevent unpleasant symptoms like sweating, nausea, insomnia, and hallucinations in medical care that may occur in an outpatient or inpatient environment. Clinical surveillance, along with postoperative therapy for fluids, electrolytes, and thiamine supplementation, may suffice. Treatment for alcohol withdrawal is crucial because it gives the patient and the healthcare provider a chance to start working together on a plan for long-term sobriety or reduced drinking.
We have programs for behavioral and psychiatric treatments that are equally successful in helping people with alcohol use disorder achieve their sobriety or drinking reduction goals. Among the most effective treatments are those that are brief, such as motivational interviewing, as well as those that use operant conditioning, such as contingency management and the care program method, and cognitive behavioral therapy treatments, such as learning to cope training opportunities and psychosocial support.
Conclusion
Alcohol disorder implementation programs should ensure that it regulates the individual’s consumption rate or withdrawal from consuming alcohol altogether. The most efficient implementation method is the individual’s readiness to change their behavior in drinking by applying positive and negative reinforcement methods to reduce the consumption of alcohol. However, in situations where chemical treatments are used, there should be treatments for withdrawal symptoms like anxiety and hallucinations.
Reference
Witkiewitz, K., Litten, R. Z., & Leggio, L. (2019). Advances in the science and treatment of alcohol use disorder. Science Advances, 5(9).