Pharmacology’s making it easier to stop drinking. As anyone familiar with alcoholism knows, getting alcohol out of the body is only the bare beginning. The reason alcoholics often return to drinking is due to the psychological obsession with alcohol, the ongoing craving for alcohol…
Alcohol is classified as a depressant drug, but there’s more to it. Alcohol produces a stimulant effect in small amounts for most normal drinkers. Alcoholics, however, develop tolerance and are able to drink much more than the normal drinker, thus extending the stimulant effect. Regarding the multiple…
Science is learning more and more about the biological damage to the brain caused by alcoholism, and there are more and more medical treatments to help ameliorate the damage. The biological damage is the easiest to understand. The alcoholic mind is harder to understand. What’s difficult to…
Another myth about alcoholism is the idea that to be an alcoholic you have to drink every day. There are different types of alcoholics and different stages of alcoholism. Not every alcoholic drinks every day, although most alcoholics in the late stages of alcoholism…
Most people think about heroin when they think of withdrawals. We’ve all seen the movies about the heroin addict sweating and writhing in pain. There are also movies that show the reality of alcoholism, but most people see only commercials that highlight the positive aspects…
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