A person gets addict of the alchol due to various reasons and anxiety is one of them. A study suggest that unlike other anxiety disorders, a social anxiety disorder may have a direct effect on alcoholism.

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For the study, researchers underestand and assessd alcoholism, social anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, agoraphobia, and specific phobias through interviews with 2,801 adult Norwegian twins. Social anxiety disorder had the strongest association with alcoholism, and it predicted alcoholism over and above the effect of other anxiety disorders. In addition, social anxiety disorder was linked with a higher risk of later developing alcoholism, whereas other anxiety disorders were not.

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According to the Journal of Depression and Anxiety the interventions aimed at prevention or treatment of social anxiety disorder may have an additional beneficial effect of preventing alcoholism.

Fartein Ask Torvik, lead author of the study."Many individuals with social anxiety are not in treatment. This means that we have an underutilized potential, not only for reducing the burden of social anxiety but also for preventing alcohol problems.

The researchers said that cognitive behavioural therapy with controlled exposure to the feared situations has shown good results.