A drug addict spoke about the harm of any dose of alcohol

There are no safe doses of alcohol, and even 10 grams of alcohol contained in a glass of wine or beer can lead to serious diseases - cancer, heart attack and stroke. This was stated by narcologist Alexei Kazantsev on Tuesday, November 26.

The specialist noted that alcohol is a neurotoxin that kills brain neurons, which affects the central and peripheral nervous system.

"There is a development of encephalopathy, which leads to irreversible consequences in the brain, that is, a decrease in cognitive abilities: thinking, memory, memorization, concentration of attention. Through the effects on the nervous system, polyneuropathy occurs, when a person can no longer walk at all. And, accordingly, this leads to degradation, to the fact that a person is already living some instincts," - explained the expert in conversation with "Radio 1".

Speaking about the development of heart attack and stroke, the narcologist emphasized that alcohol increases the risks of thrombosis, washes out potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, due to which the heart works.

"When a person abuses alcohol for a long time, thrombocytopenia occurs, that is, the risk of bleeding. This is the main cause of death in alcohol addicts with cirrhosis of the liver", - concluded the specialist.

November 20, therapist of Vidnovsky Clinical Hospital Yana Shmeleva told about the first signs of alcoholism, RT reports.

She said that the disappearance of symptoms of alcohol intoxication after a large dose of alcohol, as well as the need to increase the amount of alcohol, loss of control over the dose, aggression, memory lapses, withdrawal syndrome should be alarming.

Before that, on October 30, Ruslan Isaev, a psychiatrist-drug addict, head of a narcology clinic, said that wine consumption in any doses can not be beneficial to health. According to him, the misconception that one glass of red wine can be drunk per day for health reasons is most often used to justify the desire to consume alcohol or to advertise this drink.