Category: Sober living

These guidelines help evaluate a patient’s clinical needs and situation to match them with the right level of care, in the most appropriate available setting. For more information on evidence-based guidelines visit Addiction Medicine Primer. People with SUD often experience neurological (brain-related) changes that can affect their judgment, decision-making, learning capacity, memory, and self-control. As…

If you’re concerned about the effects of alcohol on your nose, you may want to consider cutting back on your consumption. Excessive alcohol consumption can lead to many other health problems, both short and long-term. These include liver damage, heart disease, cancer, mental health issues, and organ damage. Rhinophyma can affect anyone but is more…

Before a person consumes alcohol, it is important to know how long they will be impaired. When it comes to booze, size totally matters because it determines the amount of space that alcohol can diffuse in the body. The more alcohol you consume, the more alcohol gets into your bloodstream. How much alcohol you consume…

It is essential to stay calm and maintain a neutral tone of voice to minimize the risk of flared emotions during the talk. Sharing one’s concerns calmly and clearly can help make the process less conflictual; however, the teenager may still become upset. Caregivers should be patient and keep calm as you let them work…

So, while the debate over what words and definitions to use for addiction goes on, we must be practical in our thinking about providing effective treatment for alcoholism and drug addiction. If we are to provide medication-assisted treatment and prescription digital therapeutics, we must do so within the context of clinical medicine. Therefore, we must…

About 147 million people, 2.5% of the world population, consume cannabis (annual prevalence) compared with 0.2% consuming cocaine and 0.2% consuming opiates. In the present decade, cannabis abuse has grown more rapidly than cocaine and opiate abuse. The most rapid growth in cannabis abuse since the 1960s has been in developed countries in North America,…

By treating the crack epidemic with punitive measures and stigmatization while responding to the opioid crisis with compassion and public health strategies, the government acted in contradiction to these virtues. To uphold their own ethical principles, policymakers must ensure that drug policy reform is consistent with the virtues enshrined in the foundational documents of the…

Nature can also have a significant effect on your mental health and help relieve tension. While you can do a guided meditation with a therapist in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), there are also many guided meditation apps as well. The brain is the only organ that’s shaped by experience and practice, much like a muscle…

It is about admitting powerlessness in the face of addiction. If you want what we have to offer, and are willing to make the effort to get it, then you are ready to take certain steps. For those who wish to participate, meetings will conclude with another reading of the Serenity Prayer along with ‘Just…

Dopamine release in the NAc shell may be instrumental in the development of alcohol dependence. Psychological dependence on alcohol develops because alcohol-related stimuli acquire excessive motivational properties that induce an intense desire to consume alcohol-containing beverages (i.e., craving). As a result of this intense craving, conventional reinforcers (e.g., food, sex, family, job, or hobbies) lose…