Alcohol Abuse - Prevention

Prevention

Preventing or reducing the harm has been called for via increased taxation of alcohol, stricter regulation of alcohol advertising and the provision of brief Interventions. Brief Interventions for alcohol abuse reduce the incidence of unsafe sex, sexual violence, unplanned pregnancy and, likely, STD transmission. Information and education on social norms and the harms associated with alcohol abuse delivered either via the internet or face to face has been found to result in a decrease in harmful drinking behaviours in young people.

Withdrawal of alcohol leads to over activity of neural function because the use of alcohol leads to the depression of the central nervous system. This results in hallucinations and seizures (Schreiber, 2001).

An individual's need for alcohol can depend on their family's history status with the use of alcohol. For instance, if it is discovered that their family history with alcohol has a strong correlation, there might be a need for education to be set in place for the prevention of it so that it is less likely to occur in their family again (Powers, 2007).

However, it has been established within 10 studies that those suffering through alcohol abuse tend to have family members who try to provide help. In many of these occasions the family members would try to help the individual change or to help improve the individuals lifestyle.

Another potential way to reduce the amount of alcoholism related cases is to reduce the amount of commercials on the television relating to alcohol. Recently, a petition has been started to reduce the amount of youth exposure by preventing advertisement on the television.