Question

State whether the given statement is true or false – “Excessive use of intoxicants is a mental disorder”?

Answer 1

Hint:
1. As per the National Bureau of Economic Research, those with psychological instabilities devour around 38 percent of the liquor, 44% of the cocaine and 40% of the cigarettes ingested inside the United States.
2. A New Reports says which is published jointly by the UN office on drugs and crime that Alcohol, cannabis and opiates and drug misuse is a pervasive phenomenon in Indian society.

Complete answer:
1) Intoxicants are something that intoxicates, or we can say something that causes people to become excited or confused and less able to control what they say or do.
2) Excessive use of intoxicants happens when your body becomes addicted to it. Addiction is a complex condition, a brain disease.
3) People with addictive disorders might be aware of them but be unable to stop themselves even if they want to and that is why it is also termed as a Mental Disorder.

Thus, the given statement is True.

Note:
1. The addictive disorder and dissociative disorder are different so don't get confused. Both intend to make a person lose the ability to think and make them unconscious for a time being. But in addiction it is caused due to lack of intoxicant intake and in dissociation it happens due to some sort of psychological trauma.
2. Dissociative disorder is a mental disorder which involves experiencing a disconnection and a lack of seriality between thoughts, memories, surroundings actions and identity.
3. People with such disorders escape reality in different ways that are unhealthy and involuntary and also donates a major factor to the problems the person faces in everyday life.