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Many people drink alcohol socially, because they enjoy it or it relaxes them. Alcohol can make people lose their inhibitions and feel less reserved. Alcohol addiction is also known as alcoholism. Even if someone drinks regularly it doesn't mean they have an alcohol addiction.

The fact that a lot of people drink alcohol regularly can make it hard to recognise the difference between having an alcohol addiction and just enjoying a drink.

Signs of alcohol addiction include the inability to control drinking once you have started, drinking soon after waking up and organising your life around drinking.

Alcohol addiction is defined by some as when someone is repeatedly compelled to drink, even though they may be aware of the negative repercussions of doing so. Alcohol addiction means that the addict is dependent on alcohol. Alcohol addiction can mean both physical and/psychological dependence.

Psychological alcohol addiction or dependence is characterised when an addict feels that they can't function socially, or sometimes in everyday life, without alcohol. This means that they may drink early in the day or drink alone.

When someone has a physical alcohol addiction or dependence their body has built up a tolerance to alcohol. Without alcohol someone with an alcohol addiction may experience cravings and even physical withdrawal symptoms such as shaking.

Alcohol addiction is often both psychological and physical and both of these aspects of the alcohol addiction need to be tackled for the addict to recover properly. Both mental and physical alcohol addiction are serious and neither is easy to beat.

However, alcohol addiction is beatable and through treatment, rehab and detoxing many people do remain in recovery from alcohol addiction.

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