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How the Personality is Affected by Alcohol

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who will argue that alcohol has no long-term effect on personality, but Shawns family members are not among them. Over the course of five years, Shawn crossed the line  from casual drinker and full-time worker to full-time drinker and casual worker. Jobs last only until new employers catch the smell; he makes efforts to seek a job only  because his family no longer will accept his preferred role of that one responsible for holding down the couch and keeping the television company. Concurrently, the pleasant, engaging, intelligent  and quite capable man has devolved into a surly, self-pitying, aggressive individual who greedily grasps at any excuse to fight with anyone. Shawns  willingness to fight does not extend to physical engagement. Still, he is verbally abusive and verbally aggressive. His family knows that Shawns current circumstances and condition are the  result of his own choices, but ultimately they blame his ever-increasing dependence on alcohol. Researchers agree, and in an empirical manner. Research Support Effects of Alcohol  Moeller and Dougherty (2001) write that "Epidemiologic studies and laboratory research consistently link alcohol use with aggression" (p. 5). The type of aggression that Moeller  and Dougherty (2001) address is that to which individuals refer when labeling someone as a "mean drunk," however. Moeller and Dougherty (2001) report that research suggests that "people with  antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) may be more prone to alcohol-related aggression than people without ASPD" (p. 5). As a group, these individuals have "higher rates of alcohol dependence and  more alcohol-related problems than people without ASPD" (Moeller and Dougherty, 2001; p. 5). This judgment originates from data showing that people with ASPD show "greater increases in aggressive behavior