Category: Sober living
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Sober Living vs Halfway House: What’s the Difference?
While a sober living house doesn’t offer individual or group counseling, it offers structure and support to help you maintain your sobriety. Additionally, maintaining your sobriety typically requires a home that is free of substances. Sober living facilities are often thought of as a sober person’s pipeline to life in mainstream society. Douglas L Polcin […]
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Commission-Based Pay for Employees: Pros and Cons Explained
That way, you can find a great role that offers fair compensation. Switching to a commission-based job is often either the best or worst career decision that professionals make. While they allow for unlimited earning potential, they also pose risks that traditional salaried positions do not. In many cases, commission jobs just aren’t for the […]
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Why Do Recovering Alcoholics Crave Sugar?
Content Sugar Serves as a Transfer Addiction What Causes Sugar Cravings? Do you need to ‘detox’ from sugar? Why You Crave Sweets When You Stop Drinking Why Do You Crave Sugar When You Stop Drinking Alcohol? Songs About Addiction & Recovery Over time, alcohol can reduce your overall serotonin levels, causing you to search for […]
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End Stage Alcoholism: Signs, Symptom Timeline & Treatment VIDEO
Following this logic, the engagement of negative reinforcement processes would be considered more of an “active” process that drives excessive drinking, whereas tolerance is considered more “passive” and simply permissive in the process by comparison. Nevertheless, there is a burgeoning reawakening of the link between neuroadaptations that are involved in driving the “dark side” of […]
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Alcohol Dependence What You Need to Know
Among youth between the ages of 12 and 17, an estimated 414,000 had AUD. AUD is a medical condition characterized by an impaired ability to stop or control alcohol use. Certain people are at increased risk for abusing alcohol, including those with a family history of alcohol problems; people who drink at an early age; […]
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Stages of Alcoholism: Symptoms of Early, Chronic & End Stages
Severe alcohol consumption can impair the immune system, which can leave a person at greater risk of infections and skin sores (abscesses). As alcohol dries the skin, our natural defence against pathogens, this can also lead to repeated skin infections. How alcohol addiction physically affects different parts of your body. Often, substance abuse can lead […]
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How To Rebuild A healthy Life After Addiction
Content Rebuilding the Nervous System After Trauma & Healing Addiction – Ronnie as Guest on Awesome Health Podcast W/ Wade Lightheart Life After Alcohol Rehab Providers Find Sober Friends Remove Toxic People From Your Post-Addiction Life Coping and Communication Skills As you may already know, the effects of addiction on the body aren’t good. We’re […]
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Can You Go Back to Rehab if You Relapse After?
Content I “get to” Live a Life Beyond my Wildest Dreams What Is Relapse? Understanding Your Relapse WHAT ARE THE DANGERS OF RELAPSE? Many users feel extreme guilt after having a “slip” and using again, even if it is relatively common for those struggling with addiction to be tempted after rehab. That is why people […]
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Celebrity deaths 2024: Actors, singers and stars we lost this year
In an interview with GQ UK in 2012, Lana Del Rey opened up about her struggles with alcohol and drugs as a teen. DJ and producer Calvin Harris told the BBC that he stopped drinking because it was affecting his work. “I remember when I first got sober and all the shit was out of […]
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Hypertension: How just 1 alcohol drink a day may affect blood pressure
But the researchers noted that they couldn’t separate which component of dairy may be responsible for the association, surmising that phosphorus and calcium may be playing a role. High blood pressure is a condition that occurs when the force of the blood pushing against the walls of your arteries is too high. Sign up for […]