Alcohol addiction is a disease that is crippling and debilitating mental and physical casualties in individuals suffering from it. Addiction to alcohol, apart from having a variety of other negative effects, also increases the risk of developing cirrhosis of the liver.

The liver, the largest organ in the body, is essential for good health and bodily functions. This will remove and neutralize poisons in the blood, produces immune agents to help control infection and keep the blood s free of germs and bacteria. In addition, the liver also produces proteins that regulate blood clotting and produces bile to help both the volume of absorption of fats and fat-soluble extra. Cirrhosis is scar tissue build instead of the normal healthy tissues, causing blood flow through organs to slow or stop the damage to liver function and, in general. Cirrhosis is the twelfth leading cause of death from disease in the United States, and kills approximately 26,000 people each year.

Cirrhosis is often synonymous with chronic alcoholism and addiction to alcohol is a major cause of this disease, which usually develops after a decade or more of heavy drinking. This amount varies from person to person, but alcohol has been shown to damage by blocking the normal metabolism. Cirrhosis affects the body in many ways, such as edema and ascites, which occurs when the heart loses the ability to make the protein albumin. As a result, water accumulates in the legs (edema) and in the stomach. (Ascites)