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summary: ALCOHOLISM

By: Dede Sopyan Assauri (031105083)

Rose Falkenhagen (1987), in his article, Alcoholism, says that there are so many bad effects to much drink alcohol. For example it can result in debilitating disease that adversely affects many areas of the body, there are It can irritate the stomach and cause gastritis or more serious ulcers, also can cause malnutrition because the appetite becomes depressed, then can also damaged the cardiovascular system. Even cancer of the mouth, pharynx, larynx, and esophagus can be caused from heavy alcohol use. The most dangerous effect of alcohol on the abuser is death. The other effect is it may destroy family ties and also family generation, it means that the physical and mental abuse many families endure for years does irreparable damage, for example they born their baby with a number of birth defects, such as stunted growth, malformation of facial features, extremities, and heart, and even mental retardation. The third effect is of course it may break up friendship and the last is it may wreak havoc on society. Actually there are a lot of ways how to avoid addicted alcohol one of them is make an openly communication about why can be addicted into alcohol to the counseling centers. Nowadays there are a lot of communities that offered freely give such service because they care to fight this problem.