Alcohol is harmful for health, but despite this, the number of people who drink it all over the world is in crores. Let us tell you in this article today that after how many times do you get addicted to alcohol. Along with this, we will also tell how someone gets addicted to alcohol. That is, what is there in alcohol that makes our body addicted to it.
When does alcohol addiction occur?
If a person drinks alcohol once or twice in his life, he will not get addicted to alcohol. But if he starts drinking alcohol regularly every day, he will get addicted to alcohol in a few days. Let us now try to understand how to know that someone is addicted to alcohol.
If you are addicted to alcohol, then one day if you do not get alcohol, your body will start trembling. Your head will feel heavy and you will start craving for alcohol. You will try everything to drink alcohol. If these things are happening to you regarding alcohol, then understand that you are addicted to alcohol.
How does one get addicted to alcohol
Researchers at King’s College London have done a research on this in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). This research revealed that there is a special connection between a gene called RASGRF-2 and dopamine behind alcohol addiction. Actually, both these things are connected to fun and happiness in the brain. That is, when we like something, both these things react to it and generate happiness hormones in the brain.
Actually, when a person drinks alcohol and he is happy with its intoxication and the environment of drinking alcohol, then it affects the brain. When this thing starts happening every day, then the brain gets used to it and then on the day when this environment and alcohol are not available, people start feeling uneasy. However, scientists believe that apart from RASGRF-2 and dopamine, there are many other things that work behind alcohol addiction.
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