Category Archives: Sober living

Also, a healthy diet can help undo damage alcohol may have done to the person’s health, like weight gain or loss. If you’re worried that someone you know has an alcohol addiction, it’s best to approach them in a supportive way. This could push them away and make them more resistant to your help. Behavioral […]

“Clean dozen, in the books,” he captioned the snap of his coin at the time. In fact, Hailie even featured on some of her dad’s raps when she was a toddler, including the highly controversial 1999 song “’97 Bonnie & Clyde,” where Eminem fantasizes about murdering her mom. Musician Peter Gabriel first started the event […]

Although there are many positive psychology interventions we could mention, here is a selection of five to assess. The roots of positive psychology lie in the pioneering theories of Rogers (1951), Maslow (1962), Erikson (1982), and Jahoda (1958), among many others. From there, researchers like Murray (2000), Vaillant (2000), and Csikszentmihalyi (1975) flourished and extended […]

GABA is the main inhibitory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system (by way of creating a dramatic rise of chlorine ion release into neurons). GABA-A are receptors that decrease the excitability within neurons, which ethanol actually binds to. GABA-A interferes with the main excitatory neurotransmitter, known as glutamate, which is responsible for carrying signals between […]

Alcohol-use disorders (AUD’s) commonly occur in people with other severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, and can exacerbate their psychiatric, medical, and family problems. Therefore, to improve detection of alcohol-related problems, establish correct AUD diagnoses, and develop appropriate treatment plans, it is important to thoroughly assess severely mentally ill patients for alcohol […]

They’ll have to find new ways of living without alcohol and they’ll also have to tackle the problems that led to their alcohol abuse in the first place. But with your ongoing support and love, they can get there. Her inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) had been in remission for two months, and she felt like […]

For example, if you experience migraines and notice that alcohol triggers your migraine headache, then taking one of your migraine therapies (for example, a triptan) at the start of your headache may be best. The mechanism through which alcohol can trigger these distinct headache disorders is not well understood. While the acute widening of blood […]

This group later found that this potentiating effect of EtOH may be mediated by CRF1 receptors, as the increased IPSC amplitude observed in CeA neurons in response to 11mM EtOH is absent in CRF1 knockout mice and blocked by a CRF1 antagonist [53]. Conversely, this group has not demonstrated an effect of low EtOH concentrations […]

Usually, a bad reaction to mixing weed and alcohol will pass within a few hours. If you’ve mixed weed and alcohol and are having a bad reaction, it’s probably because alcohol seems to make the high from using weed stronger. This can happen any time you’ve consumed to much weed — with or without alcohol. […]

This can be explained by a mostly superficial incorporation of 13C6-cocaine, from which it can be quickly removed. In contrast, amounts of unlabeled cocaine remained rather stable after an initial single drop. This initial drop can be explained by the easy wash out of superficial (contaminating) cocaine with the first wash. This initial drop could […]