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Alcohol Blackout

What is an alcohol blackout? This is not the same thing as passing out when you have had too much to drink. Passing out very much resembles sleeping. No, an alcoholic blackout is when a person has had a...

5 comments    alcohol beer drinking
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Parents Beware of Vodka Soaked Tampons

This latest one is just gross. It seems kids have found a new way to get high by inserting vodka soaked tampons into the vagina. And just so the boys won't be left out, it works rectally as well. This is one...

30 comments    health family children
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The List of the Famous Who Have Died for Their Addictions

Those are people who died, died Those are people who died, died Those are people WHO died, died They were all my friends They just died - Jim Carrol Elvis Presley- A medical examiner listed the cause of...

15 comments    health entertainment life
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Heavy Drinking Will Lower Your Testosterone Levels. Beware Male Breast Enlargement, Testicular Atrophy...

Although heavy drinking is often perceived as manly or masculine, chronic alcohol abuse will actually lower testosterone levels in men.

0 comments    alcohol drinking fertility
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Delirium tremens and the alcoholic

Delirium tremens are a symptom of alcohol withdrawal. An alcohol detox program may be the only safe way to help an alcoholic recover from this potentially fatal psychological mental condition that also...

0 comments    alcohol alcoholism alcoholic
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You Might Be an Alcoholic If

The disease of alcoholism is baffling (actually, it's cunning, baffling and powerful). To the outside observer, the drinker's self-destructive behavior makes no sense. To the drinker him/herself, it doesn't...

77 comments    health family addiction
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The best way to quit drinking

A significant shift in the way we treat alcohol addiction is underway. Patients once forced into rehab or 12-step meetings now have new options, including at home care and treatment with anti-craving...

0 comments    alcoholism alcohol abuse kudzu
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Beating Alcohol Abuse: 101 Days to Sobriety

Do you or a loved one have a drinking problem? Will you admit it? Perhaps you do not know how to define what such a problem is. No, it does not mean that you are hiding bottles all over the house, or...

11 comments    alcohol wine beer
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Beware of Alcohol and Nebulizers

Among the many drug and alcohol dangers parents need to be aware of - there is something new. Kids are putting alcohol into nebulizers and inhaling the vapors straight into their lungs, where the alcohol is...

8 comments    health education parenting
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Can A Drinking Contract Help You to Control Your Drinking? Can You Turn Alcohol Abuse Into Responsible Consumption?

Can writing yourself a drinking contract keep you under control? Is moderation management a feasible option for people with alcohol abuse problems? Can you really learn to control your drinking? Well...

5 comments    alcohol drinking alcoholism
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