Alcoholism is a disease that includes alcohol craving and continued drinking despite repeated alcohol-related problems, such as losing a job or getting into trouble with the law. Symptoms include craving, impaired control, physical dependence, and increased tolerance. Alcoholism has so many negative health effects that damage the human body very badly. These damages have many bad consequences for the person and his life.
Alcohol passes through the liver and damages this organ. The liver plays the main role in the endocrine system and is huge affected. “In the United States approximately 10% to 35 % of heavy drinkers develop alcoholic hepatitis while 10 % to 20% develop cirrhosis (Downers, 1993)”. The “fatty liver” is an accumulation
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