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With the over consumption of alcohol on a daily basis, also brings forth a multitude of risks.According to Jürgen Rehm’s article “The Risks Associated With Alcohol Use and Alcoholism".People with alcohol dependency have a higher chance of being unemployed.The biggest cause of unemployment is alcohol addiction. Alcohol addiction causes you to come into work not on time, and in some cases come to work in a bad mood no one wants to work with.Rehm proceeds to explain the dangers of alcoholism. People who don’t drink alcohol are more affected by people who do drink alcohol. Drunk driving kills more non intoxicated drivers than intoxicated drivers. According to Hans Joachim Salize’s article “Treating Alcoholism Reduces Financial Burden on Care-Givers And Increase Quality-Adjusted Life Years”. 20 % of an alcoholics income goes to alcohol consumption. Alcoholics spend a lot of their money on their addiction to alcohol. Alcoholics drink 2-5 times a day. Depending on what type of alcohol they drink it can be very expensive. Salize continues to explain the financial burden that alcoholics have. Families with an alcoholic in them tend to be more in debt. By spending so much of their paycheck on alcohol consumption causes them to be more in debt. An alcoholic would rather spend his whole paycheck on alcohol rather than paying bills. Rehm continues to add the health risk factors of alcoholism Alcoholism is a contributing factor to theses diseases Cancer, Diabetes, liver and pancreas disease, infectious, and cardiovascular disease. Alcohol is a very harmful drug that is very unhealthy for your body. Alcohol is a drug that destroys the inside of your body over long periods of time, or over drinking. Salize continues to explain and add about the ...

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...will increase insurance access by expand by expanding Medicaid eligibility and mandating individual insurance coverage. The new health care reform will help cover treatment for alcoholism. Huebner and Kantor continue to remark the cost of alcoholism treatment. People without insurance coverage or with limited insurance coverage for substance abuse treatment can pay out of pocket for services or through publicly funded addiction treatment programs. There are free publicly funded treatment centers for alcoholism. Huebner and Kantor continue to furthermore explain the treatment for alcoholism. The delivery of alcohol treatment, whether that treatment is medication, behavioral therapy, or a combination of both, can be facilitated by the use of communication tools such as the telephone, e­mail, and the Internet. There are many ways of social treatment to treat alcoholism.

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