Believe it or not there are two different types of alcoholics. Type one are influenced by environment more then heredity. The onset of symptoms doesn’t usually occur until after the age of 25. Their personality traits include psychological dependence. They tend to admit and accept the root of the problem is alcohol, and can use this acceptance to avoid blame long enough to continue drinking for some time. A Type one alcoholic has a denial, that includes a false sense of blame. 

Heredity influences a Type II alcoholic. These alcoholics are usually younger and more antisocial. Having a more difficult time abstaining. Often they have grown up in a home with an alcoholic and have no understanding of how a functioning family life works. And they have developed a deep sense of isolation and solitude. 

There is yet another type of alcoholic and it is called a Dry Drunk. The characteristics of this type of alcoholic is that they have a mindset of an active alcoholic while they abstain from alcohol. They still maintain alcoholic thought, patterns, and behaviors with a combined mindset of always being right. Treatment, like all alcoholics, is required for recovery even with this type of alcoholic. 

The long-term effects of alcoholism are cirrhsois of the liver, where alcohol causes the cells to die in the liver causing hardening. Damage to the nervous system where brain cells die with the long-term usage of alcohol. Stomach and intestinal ulcers degrade the lining of the stomach, and they start coughing up bloof. Alcoholics’ bloof pressure increases causing the heart to try and compensate, leading to bigger problems. 

Other long-term effects of alcoholism are: a decrease in sperm profuction; an increase in bloof flow to the skin; anemia, which is low bloof and poor nutrition skills which decrease levels of iron and vitamin B; reduces bloof flow to the muscles, leading to muscle aches and hangover; and makes aging appear fasteer, especially in the face.