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What problems can you get with being an alcoholic?

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Physical:

* Cirrhosis of the liver * Pancreatitis * Cardiovascular problems, including one real winner known as esophageal varices, where blood vessels break in your throat and you drown in your own blood or bleed to death * Mouth, throat and stomach cancer * Complications of Diabetes * A variety of conditions associated with the deterioration of the organ systems * Injuries due to falls, automobile crashes and other accidents * Reduced immune response leading to a variety of conditions that you might have been able to deal with otherwise * Eventual death from one or more of the above

Social:

* Loss of jobs * Incarceration * Alienation from family and friends * Inability to function as a normal human being * Jail * Mental institutions

Psychological:

* Severe depression * Mental deterioration due to prolonged alcohol consumption * Exaggeration of existing emotional problems, or inability to correct them due to the effects of alcohol * Severe skewing of reality as the drink becomes the most important thing in you live and you tell yourself all sorts of lies to justify its continuance These are the ones that come immediately to mind. There are others.

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