Tag: alcoholism
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6 Habits That Make it Easier to Recover from Depression and Addiction
You’ve taken your first steps to recover from depression and addiction. You’ve made incredible progress towards getting better and overcoming your substance abuse issues and mental disorders. But now what? Maintaining progress and avoiding relapses is crucial to ensuring that your addiction recovery goes smoothly. It can feel terrifying at first, but you can learn…
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Research Reveals How Alcohol Abuse Rewires Your Brain
Alcohol abuse can cause numerous health problems, and recently, scientists have found it also rewires your brain. A study published in Progress in Neurobiology on Novermber 13, 2020, found that changes in the amygdala’s cellular activity may result in alcohol addiction. The amygdala, a small almond-shaped region located deep within the brain, regulates emotions, behavior,…
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10 Signs Show You Might Enable Someone’s Substance Abuse
Experts estimate that more than 200,000 million people will die this year from drug abuse. Most addicts don’t start because they want to live this lifestyle; instead, many are trying to self-medicate a pain that is deep inside. Additionally, others have had surgery or have a medical condition that has left them in debilitating pain.…
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15 Motivational Quotes to Offer Hope to a Recovering Alcoholic
A recovering alcoholic is someone who has admitted that their relationship with alcohol is out of hand. This person has also made the decision to put an end to the power that alcohol once had on them. This is a long, difficult road, but it’s a road that leads to a much better life for…
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10 Behaviors That Reveal Someone With Hidden Alcoholism
“The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) reports that about 17 percent of men and 8 percent of women will develop an alcohol use disorder at some point in their lives.” – American Addiction Centers (source) Alcoholism is defined as “the most serious form of problem drinking, [describing] a strong, often uncontrollable, desire…
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Scientists Explain What Happens to Your Body When You Stop Drinking Alcohol
“Pick your poison…” When we drink alcohol, our body interprets it as the equivalent of poison. The reasons are quite simple: alcohol has no nutritional value, and it damages cells. As such, whatever adult beverage we drink is sent to the liver to be broken down into chemicals that can pass through the urinary tract.…