□ Broadcast date and time: Friday, November 8, 2024 at 10:20 PM □ PD in charge: Lee Si-woo □ Writers in charge: Kim Bae-jung, Kim Hyeon-jung □ Cast: Noh Seong-won (Psychiatrist at Hanyang University Hospital) □ Broadcast channel IPTV - GENIE TV 159 / BTV 243 / LG U+ 145 Skylife 90 Cable - DLive 138 / Hyundai HCN 341 / LG Hellovision 137 / BTV Cable 152 The text below may differ from the actual broadcast content. Please check the broadcast for more accurate information. ◆ Noh Seong-won: Hello. I am Noh Seong-won, a psychiatrist. What I will talk about today is the symptoms and treatment of alcohol addiction. ◇ Voice actor Park Sang-hoon: We often call people who like alcohol and enjoy drinking alcoholic beverages, but if you think of alcohol every time you eat and habitually enjoy drinking alcohol, you should suspect alcoholism. The number of alcoholics in Korea has been steadily increasing from 1.505 million in 2018 to 1.526 million in 2020. However, the number of cases that lead to actual treatment is decreasing every year. The only way to treat alcoholism is abstinence from alcohol. Let's learn more about the treatment method that allows alcoholics to stay away from alcohol on their own without relying on alcohol. [Origin of alcohol] ◆ Noh Seong-won: Yes, when we think of alcoholism, we first think of alcohol. So when did people start drinking alcohol? If we look at historical records, people started drinking alcohol after seeing monkeys first drink fermented alcohol that fell from trees. In some ways, it can be said that it is as old as human history or even older. [Understanding diseases] ◆ Noh Seong-won: Yes, so what kind of disease is alcoholism? When we continue to drink alcohol beyond the socially acceptable level and it harms various functions physically, mentally, psychologically, and socially, and it becomes a chronic mental illness, we call it alcoholism. We often misunderstand this. We often talk about alcoholics as lacking willpower and acting morally corrupt. However, this is a misunderstanding. Before brain science developed, it was often said that it was a moral problem or a problem of willpower. However, as brain science developed, the causes and symptoms of this disease called alcoholism were discovered, and it was revealed to be one of the mental illnesses. The reason we cannot stop drinking is not a problem of willpower, but a behavioral disorder caused by the brain losing control over drinking. In other words, a chronic recurrent brain disease is alcoholism. We often talk about alcoholism, but in medical terms, it is called alcohol use disorder or alcohol dependence. [Prevalence of the disease] ◆ Noh Seong-won: So how many alcoholics are there in our country? Alcoholism is the disease with the highest prevalence among major mental illnesses, with a lifetime prevalence rate of 12%. The prevalence rates for men and women are slightly different. It is known that men suffer from this disease about three times more often than women. [Diagnosis of the disease] ◆ Noh Seong-won: Then how do you diagnose alcoholism? According to the World Health Organization (WHO), experts diagnose alcoholism if two or more of the three symptoms I just mentioned are present. In other words, you cannot control your first drink. For example, how much alcohol... (omitted) PD Lee Si-woo ([email protected]) ▶ Original article: https://www.ytn.co.kr/_ln/0103_202411... ▶ Report: https://mj.ytn.co.kr/mj/mj_write.php ▣ Subscribe to YTN YouTube channel: http://goo.gl/Ytb5SZ ⓒ YTN Unauthorized reproduction, redistribution, and use of AI data are prohibited