Help Your Child Avoid Underage Drinking With These 10 Tips
Help your child avoid underage drinking – it can be one of the best things you do in your overall effort to help them avoid long-term problems with drinking. Why? Because of brain development that occurs from birth through one’s early 20s. That brain development makes a child’s brain especially vulnerable to the effects of…
Read MoreStandard Drink Label – Proposed Cigarette Label
Standard drink labels – simple, easy to read, informing you of how many standard drinks are in a drink container. In light of the proposed cigarette warning labels – isn’t it time? It’s in the news, today, articles and reader comments about the F.D.A.’s proposed graphic warning labels on cigarette packs, like this one, “F.D.A.…
Read MoreStandard Drink Labels – Isn’t It Time?
Standard drink labels – isn’t it time? Most definitely! Especially when a can of alcohol contains 5 standard drinks! Given the recent articles in a number of newspapers, news programs and online regarding the hospitalizations of young drinkers of the caffeinated alcoholic beverage, Four Loko, the call by 18 state attorneys general for the Food…
Read MoreSigns of a Possible Relapse | SAMHSA
Understanding that relapse can be part of a person’s recovery is important. But even more important is to understand the signs of a possible relapse so that it can be avoided all together. Addiction Relapse Explained Because addiction is now understood to be a chronic, often relapsing brain disease — one that results in cravings…
Read MoreFeelings During Early Recovery From Addiction | Alcoholism
Addicts | alcoholics experience a number of common feelings during early recovery from addiction | alcoholism. Learning what they are and that these feelings and emotions are normal during early recovery is important not only for the addict | alcoholic, but for their family members and friends, as well. Knowing the Common Feelings During Early…
Read MoreRelapse Prevention – What’s Your Anti-Drug / Anti-Drink?
Relapse prevention – What’s your anti-drug | anti-drink? Once an addict/alcoholic clears their system of their substance of choice (through detox), s/he must work to re-train and repair his/her brain in order to recover from their addiction. Why? Because addiction is defined as a chronic, often relapsing brain disease. What does this have to do…
Read MoreRehab – What More Could You Want?
Rehab at a 28 days at a residential treatment facility – what more could you want to treat a drug addiction or alcoholism? Short answer: so, so much more! The common perception is that finally getting a loved one with a drug or alcohol addiction into a 28-day residential rehab treatment program will take care…
Read MoreMyth: The best thing for a drunk friend is to let them sleep it off.
by Lisa Frederiksen REALTY: Alcohol is a depressant that works on the central nervous system. It slows down the heart rate, lowers the blood pressure and slows a person’s breathing rate. If a friend passes out, s/he has consumed an amount of alcohol that puts him/her dangerously close to the amount of alcohol that can…
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