Category: Sober living
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Alcohol Allergies Can Cause Sneezing, Flushing, Headache
There are genetic tests that can tell you if you have an ALDH deficiency. Your healthcare provider can order this test or you can purchase one through private vendors. People can develop an alcohol intolerance for a couple of reasons. How does an allergic reaction to alcohol differ from a bad hangover? Respiratory tract infections,…
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Tolerance to Alcohol: A Critical Yet Understudied Factor in Alcohol Addiction PMC
Usually, one standard drink is metabolized in one hour, but people who have little or no ADH have no simple way of metabolizing the alcohol. Thus they develop effects and build tolerance faster than people who do have ADH. Ingested ethanol is metabolized by an enzyme, “alcohol dehydrogenase,” to a metabolite called acetaldehyde. Alcohol Tolerance…
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Effective Christian Alcohol Counseling: How To Guide
Request more information or get in contact with us using this form. We are here to support you on your journey through drug or alcohol addiction and look forward to walking by your side with faith-based compassion. Addictions Victorious is a Christian-based recovery program that focuses on helping individuals break free from various forms of…
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How Faith in God Plays A Role In Recovery From Addiction
Christian faith provides individuals with a profound sense of purpose and resilience. Believing in a higher power and drawing upon spiritual beliefs helps those in recovery find inner strength to face challenges and temptations. The conviction that they are supported by a loving and omnipotent God can be incredibly empowering, offering a sense of peace…
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Trump complains about campaign as advisers try to focus on attacking Harris
Finding happiness in sobriety is a process that takes time but is totally achievable with the right daily supports, priorities, and commitments. While you’re in active addiction, the life you imagine without drugs seems awful. Sobriety seems like a lot of hard work, boring, and downright miserable—not to mention impossible. Perhaps you’ve relapsed before, and…
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What Is Alcoholic Thinking? Signs & How to Overcome It The Recovery Village Columbus Drug and Alcohol Rehab
A much larger study of almost 4 million people in Korea noted that mild to moderate alcohol consumption was linked to a lower risk for dementia compared to non-drinking. Genetic, psychological, social and environmental factors can impact how drinking alcohol affects your body and behavior. Theories suggest that for certain people drinking has a different…
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Alcohol and Your Brain: The Latest Scientific Insights
If you’re concerned about someone who drinks too much, ask a professional experienced in alcohol treatment for advice on how to approach that person. The term alcoholic refers to a person with a condition known as alcohol use disorder (AUD). The disorder makes a person who has it experience an intense desire for alcohol even when…
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Alcohol Consumption and Risk of Chronic Kidney Disease: A Nationwide Observational Cohort Study PMC
Along with oxidative stress, increasing evidence suggests that some nonoxidative mechanisms also factor into alcohol-related organ damage. Specifically, ethanol metabolism produces fatty acid ethyl esters in various organs (Laposata and Lange 1986), which can cause ethanol-induced organ damage. Calabrese and Rizza (1999) found that ethanol induced a significant increase in the levels of fatty acid…
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Does Drinking Alcohol Cause Cancer? Learn About the Risks Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Significant knowledge gaps on the impact of alcohol use (and cessation) among cancer patients and survivors remain. A better understanding of alcohol consumption’s effects on therapeutic response, disease progression, and long-term cancer outcomes may support medical decision making and improve survivorship. The plant secondary compound resveratrol, found in grapes used to make red wine and…
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Why You Bruise More Easily When You Drink Alcohol
Anti-seizure medications are sometimes prescribed as a way to manage pain. People with a lengthy history of alcohol misuse might experience loss of balance, pain, tingling, weakness, or numbness after drinking alcohol. Alcoholic neuropathy signs and symptoms can progress gradually and are usually subtle at first. In fact, a person who drinks heavily might not…