Lush accommodations ping.
So this shows that alcoholism is based almost strictly in excessive stress and one’s attempt to self-medicate that.
This flies in the face of so many who say they drink for fun or habit. Really, they are inwardly quite stressed over something. It may not even be that they are trying to “forget” the issue, but just calming their nerves.
Unfortunately, alcohol never fixes a problem.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2747092/
A key role for corticotropin-releasing factor in alcohol dependence
July 16, 2007
Recent data indicate that alcohol dependence induces long-term neuroadaptations that recruit a negative emotional state. This leads to excessive alcohol ingestion motivated by relief of negative emotionality. A key mechanism in this transition to negative reinforcement is a recruitment of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) signaling within the amygdala. Long term upregulation of CRF1 receptors is observed in the amygdala following a history of dependence, and CRF antagonists selectively block emotionality, excessive alcohol drinking and stress-induced reinstatement of alcohol-seeking in post-dependent animals. Innate upregulation of CRF1 receptor expression mimics the post-dependent phenotype, both with regard to emotional responses and ethanol self-administration. Therefore, the CRF system is emerging as a key element of the neuroadaptive changes driving alcoholism and as a major target for its treatment.
Drugs will never “cure” alcoholism. There are behavioral factors that can never be cured by a pill.