What are the Benefits of Avoiding Alcohol?
It can be hard to avoid alcohol when your friends want to get a drink with you or you are constantly passing bars with people having fun while drinking. If you have never touched alcohol [...]
Mixing Alcohol and Codeine
Codeine is a mild narcotic painkiller and cough suppressant. It is now a prescription only drug that treats moderate or severe pain. Recreational use of codeine symptoms include euphoria, memory loss, vomiting, and loss of [...]
How Stem Cell Research Can Potentially Cure Alcoholism
Stem cell research has been miraculous in medical treatments. It has so far helped with restoring sensation to those who are paralyzed and has helped those who are almost blind be able to read again. [...]
Can You Get Cancer From Alcoholism?
We know that alcoholism can cause many negative health problems that can sometimes be irreversible. Did you know that you can get cancer from drinking too much alcohol? According to the American Journal of Public [...]
What Do Alcoholics Die Of?
Alcoholism can be devastating not just for the one suffering from addiction but for the friends and family of that person too. According to The Journal of the American Medical Association, 88,000 people in the [...]
New Gene Variant Can Protect People From Alcoholism
Drinking alcohol involves breaking down the ethanol to get the chemical out of our body. If we drink too much alcohol, the body has a hard time breaking it down. This causes too much alcohol [...]
Why Spring Is a Great Time to Do Step Four
Step four in the twelve steps is “make a searching and fearless written moral inventory of yourself.” This is the perfect step to complete in spring since spring is a season of new awakenings and [...]
The Effects of Alcohol to the Brain
When you are drunk, your speech may slur, have clumsy movements, energized or sulken attitude. This is because alcohol may go down to your stomach but the euphoric effects go to your brain. It is [...]
The Benefits of Rock Bottom
Rock bottom is a place almost every person who’s struggled with addiction has been before. For some people, it’s less severe than others. No two people on this planet are exactly alike, and everyone hits [...]
Addicts are People, not Just Statistics
There are almost countless statistics about addiction and its effects on people. There are statistics and charts about every drug, alcohol, treatment types, treatment effectiveness, the list just goes on and on. With all of [...]