... balance between the brains perception of hunger and satiety. This occurs at the expense of an adequate diet or nutrients. Researches over the years shows that genetics also plays a significant role in alcohol-related problems as it has been discovered that identical twins who are alcoholics share similar drinking behaiour and personality traits that seems to make a person susceptible to alcohol. Alcoholism is associated with tolerance to the effect of alcohol, whereby a progressively increasing resistance to the effect of a frequently administered drug, requires a progressive larger amounts (dosage) of the drug to produce a desired effect and this larger dosage required, might approach a level at which the drug produces dangerous side effect that place the person at risk for serious illness and death. Usage of alcohol by parent and peers has a profound influence on an adolescent's desire for alcohol. Alcohol-related problems seriously impair physiological, psychological and social maturation. ...

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