Alcoholism is defined as a disease by the World Health Organization. An addiction that we are often unaware of, until it is too late. Alexandre Béhier was a victim. He surrenders.
According to the WHO, consumption becomes dangerous from two glasses a day for women and three for men. In Belgium, more than six % of the population exceeds this critical threshold. Excessive consumption that can have serious health consequences.
To understand, we have an appointment with a personal coach for alcoholics. Alexandre Béhier knows the subject well, he started drinking a lot at the age of 16: “Alcohol took hold in a very sneaky and vicious way to realize at 37 that I couldn’t live without it for a single second of the day”.
When we say: burn the candle at both ends, that was the case, for me it was enormously every day
An addiction that destroys his health: “I managed to reintegrate very slowly into life and that’s when two cancers arrived, then they removed my colon, they removed my rectum. I had operations in all directions. When we say: burn the candle at both ends, that was the case, for me it was enormously every day”.
Alcohol is responsible for almost 200 diseases. Thomas Orban, general practitioner, specializing in alcohol addiction: “It’s three million deaths each year in the world. It’s six deaths per minute related to alcohol and the consequences of alcohol”. In Belgium, more than 6% of the population tends to drink too much alcohol.