Alcoholism is a primary, chronic disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. The disease is often progressive and fatal. It is characterized by continuous or periodic: impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking, most notably denial (NCADD)." It`s effects on an individual are an indescribable, harsh, reality of what one drug can do to an individual. Some …showed first 75 words of 519 total…

…showed last 75 words of 519 total…and themselves. The frustration that can become of this is all but pleasing. They may become pinfully depressed or overly agressive causing family life to deteriorate rapidly (Family). If the person is married, the significant other is forced to make a decision as to whether they are going to stay with the alcoholic or not. Many families try to deny the fact that the person is an alcoholic causing the situation to deteriorate even further.