Alcohol Abuse

You can work with doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals who are addiction specialists and will help return you to your best overall health. Over-the-counter (OTC) sleep aids that contain doxylamine or diphenhydramine are popular treatment options for insomnia, but they cannot be mixed with alcohol either. Combining two addictive substances like Ambien and alcohol […]

They are led by health professionals and supported by studies showing they can be beneficial. There are gender differences in alcohol-related mortality and morbidity, as well as levels and patterns of alcohol consumption. The percentage of alcohol-attributable deaths among men amounts to 7.7 % of all global deaths compared to 2.6 % of all deaths […]

A person severely dependent on alcohol will usually experience severe withdrawal symptoms. As a person drinks more, the body learns to compensate by adjusting. As dependence develops, it becomes difficult for the person to stop drinking. Research studies have shown that a third of people being treated for alcohol use disorders exhibited no symptoms after […]

Drinking in pregnancy can lead to long-term harm to the baby, and the risk increases the more you drink. The second is a medicine to reduce any urge you may have to drink. The most common medicines used for this are acamprosate and naltrexone. There are 2 main types of medicines to help people stop […]

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Imagining a life without alcohol might feel too difficult and scary. Denial is defined by Merriam-Webster as “a refusal to admit the truth or reality of something.” In psychology, it’s a defense mechanism to avoid confronting a personal problem. It’s extremely common for people with alcohol use disorder (AUD) to resist the reality of their […]

A study in rats from 1968 has shown that the diuretic response to alcohol is directly related to alcoholic concentration [11]. This would suggest that strong (distilled) alcoholic beverages may provoke more dehydration than weak alcoholic beverages. The US Institute of Medicine concluded in 2005 [13] that the effect of alcohol consumption on increasing urine […]

Member acknowledge attendance. This may be provided  on a slip that has been furnished by the referral source, or via a digital method if the group is online. The referred person is responsible for returning the proof of attendance. Some are video meetings where you see each other’s faces. The members of each meeting decide […]

Recognizing these patterns is essential for understanding the psychological aspects of alcoholism and developing targeted intervention strategies to address the cognitive distortions that sustain the disorder. Understanding these gene-environment interactions is critical for developing targeted prevention and treatment strategies for AUDs. Alcoholic thinking, characterized by certain cognitive and emotional processing impairments, may precede and potentially […]

Disinhibition can make you unable to suppress or change an act of aggression that is not appropriate for the situation you’re in. Because you are a trusted loved one, the addict knows that you will not hurt them in their pain-fueled rage. When combined with other evidence-based therapies, such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), MAT […]