Dr. Wu has experience as a guidance counselor of a rehab center for 5 years now, he speaks about his professional opinion during the interview towards alcohol, the problem it causes, and the people that have the problems. The results of alcoholism are similar for every person he has encountered so far, the only differences are how the problems originate for each person. Dr. Wu claims he treats alcoholism both in the mature and the young relatively the same. Dr. Wu has much more professional and personal experiences with alcoholics than an average person.
-Lieber, C. S. Alcohol liver and nutrition. Vol. 10. N.p.: American College of Nutrition, 1991. N. pag. Web. 19 Mar. 2010.
Lieber explains that the long term effects of alcohol require approximately 10 years to manifest in an alcoholic individual, including liver disease, stroke, cancers, and brain damage (Lieber). The information given is similar to every health textbooks' definition of long term alcohol effects I encountered so far. The article explains simple long term effects and even the unknown to the common population of alcohol. The article does not state age as a factor of these effects developing but seeing as how the first child tastes their first drink at 12, they will be an adult when the long term effects manifest, but changes nothing when the same person is the same subject.
-Teague, Michael. Your Health Today: Choices in a Changing Society. 2nd ed. NYC: McGraw- Hill, 2007. 190-96. Print.
The author portrays alcohol as a psychoactive drug which changes brain chemistry which alters mood and behavior (Teague). Pages 190-96 of the textbook explains how substances that rewire the brain work. The book was published by McGraw-Hill, a publisher trusted with publishing textbooks. The information are purely facts and has no emotional or personal experience bias attached to it. This book provides information beyond the normal and commonly known facts about the effects of alcohol.
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