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Written on March 16th, 2010 by Nick HayesView Comments
If you begin a relationship with someone who drinks heavily, think long and hard about your feelings. Are you in it for the long haul? Because having a relationship with an alcoholic affects every aspect of your life, together and separate. If you are married to or in love with someone who heavily drinks, you may find yourself having a financial hardship. When it comes time to pay the bills, money may have been spent on drinking instead or your partner may have called in to work in order to stay home and drink and therefore did not work enough hours to cover the monthly expenses.
Written on March 5th, 2010 by Nick HayesView Comments
Imagine you are at a party. Maybe you are a teenager, maybe a mature adult. You see that someone has been imbibing a bit too much alcohol and gets sick. The person begins throwing up and passes out. How strong is the urge to just let the person sleep it off? How strong is the urge to seek medical attention?
Written on March 2nd, 2010 by Nick HayesView Comments
Very often, in case of alcohol and drugs, it is not only the person who suffers from it but its effects are seen on the entire family and loved ones. It is extremely difficult to handle a person who is alcoholic in the family. You never know what kind of erratic behavior a person may display when he is drunk. It leads to a constant fear and suspicion of the person. The fact that alcoholism has disrupted many lives and families is not unheard of.
Written on February 26th, 2010 by Nick HayesView Comments
Just like drugs, alcohol is equally detrimental to your body and can result in life altering consequences. Most often, people start out as casual or social drinkers but fail to realize when it turns into an addiction. The problem with alcoholism is the inability to stop drinking once you have started. It may have started as a way to relieve yourself of the stress of a bad breakup, loss of job etc. or it may have crept up as tolerance to it increases.
Written on February 3rd, 2010 by Doug McGarryView Comments
Often times when an alcoholic begins to seek treatment for his alcoholism he will see his family doctor, most medical doctors will begin treatment with a few different prescriptions for depression and anxiety. This is a normal practice because the symptoms of alcoholism mirror emotional disorders. This is a very dangerous path to follow for an alcoholic; the addiction to alcohol ensures that the alcoholic will quickly become addicted to pharmacologically similar drugs, this is a process called “cross addiction” and it happens to many alcoholics.
Written on January 11th, 2010 by Nick HayesView Comments
Alcoholism affects millions of people around the world. Because society in general has become used to people drinking, it may not always be immediately obvious that someone is becoming an alcoholic. In fact, there are many people who can drink casually for years before even becoming an alcoholic. If someone is drinking alone, this may be a warning sign of alcoholism. It is known as one indicator that someone may be addicted to alcohol. Normally, drinking is a social situation but if someone starts drinking alone on a regular basis, that should send up a red flag.
Written on January 10th, 2010 by Nick HayesView Comments
What many people may not consider is that when abused, alcohol can be extremely detrimental to the health and in some cases cause death. The effects of alcohol are caused when the alcohol is consumed by drinking it and it absorbs into the bloodstream through the stomach. Another factor which comes into play with the effects of alcohol is the amount of food the person has consumed before they begin drinking.
Written on January 3rd, 2010 by Nick HayesView Comments
Alcoholics primary indicator of addiction is that they will endanger themselves physically by drinking at times, and in measures that pose a threat to the body and its’ normal function. The second sign that someone, possibly previously thought to be a casual drinker, is an alcoholic is their inability to control their drinking.
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