Category: alcohol use disorder
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The Ubiquity of Alcohol in American Society
We drink a lot of alcohol in the US, but not everyone drinks it. In fact, 35% of those of legal drinking age consider themselves abstainers (Gallup). Statistically, that means that more than three people in every ten we encounter don’t drink alcohol. So why are messages of drinking so ubiquitous? How did the alcohol…
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Make 2025 Alcohol-Free: A Healthier New Year
It’s the day before January 1…New Year’s Eve Day, as it were…and people are making plans to ring in 2025 as well as resolutions to make 2025 the best year yet. Me? I’m typing in my pajamas with no intention of leaving the house. One of the resolutions that pops up in the top 10…
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They’re Drunk On Your Dollars
People suffering from alcohol use disorder[…] were given alcohol – indeed, given alcohol to the level of intoxication – in the name of research.
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Alcohol: The Deadliest Drug
Alcohol is STILL killing more people annually than opioids ever did….alcohol kills slowly. Heroin kills fast. Fentanyl kills faster. Opioids can and do kill with a first use, but alcohol rarely does. Alcohol takes its sweet time…first destroying relationships, then entire families, and then actual lives.
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What Is Recovery?
Can a person be in remission or recovery while ceasing “heavy” drinking or use only?
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That Deadly Drink
Just because it’s legal – and just because the government sold us out to the deep pockets of the alcohol industry – doesn’t mean that it’s safe.
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Addiction Happens to All of Us
Addiction is that thing that no one cares about…until it happens to you or your loved one. But these days, nearly everyone has someone whom it’s happened to. When I first started in the field of addiction back in the late ’80s, the statistic was that a quarter of individuals were affected by a loved…
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Let’s Not Raise a Glass So Fast…to Alcohol
Alcohol is dangerous and deadly. It’s the most dangerous legal drug, and it’s the second-most deadly legal drug. Given this information, I am BEGGING for someone to explain to me how society has become so inured to the dangers of alcohol that we completely ignore them. Case in point: I watched the sixth season of…
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#1 Isn’t Always A Good Thing
On Tuesday, October 17, Mueller Communications LLC took the opportunity to point out that the United Health Foundation’s 2023 Health of Women and Children Report ranked the state of Wisconsin “last (50th) for excessive drinking among women and fourth-worst (46th) for alcohol use among youths” (Mueller email). One day later, on Wednesday, October 18, State…
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