Here is the Addiction Blog RoundUp for the week. Happy reading!
Alcohol and Your Heart
Dirk Hanson writes a lot about scientific and medical findings related to addiction over at Addiction Inbox. This week he is writing about alcohol and heart health. It is a very interesting article and hopefully information like this will lead to a change [Read more…]
Adolescent Substance Use
In last week’s post I talked about how addiction has been determined to be a brain disease and I mentioned that I had read this article in the Indiana Gazette about adolescent substance use and abuse and the problems it can cause in their brains. This week, [Read more…]
Alcohol Awareness Month
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[/one_half]The theme of this year’s Alcohol Awareness Month: “Help for Today. Hope For Tomorrow” seeks to increase awareness about the impact of alcohol on young people, families, and communities. [Read more…]
Alcohol Awareness: Your Drinking
Many individuals are not aware that they are drinking alcohol (or using drugs) excessively and awareness often comes slowly. It is difficult to admit that drinking is affecting your life negatively and it can be hard to recognize the consequences. Here are just a few of the many possible consequences from excessive alcohol use: [Read more…]
Alcohol Awareness: Alcohol Abuse in the Elderly
Alcohol abuse in the elderly population appears to be under-reported. The severity of the problem often goes unnoticed as there are fewer opportunities to observe possible red flags in drinking behavior. The elderly generally drink at home alone, don’t have work related problems due to drinking, and have less chance of driving under the influence. Changes that one might normally associate with aging appear, and when those changes are increased slightly or significantly due to alcohol use, it is often missed. [Read more…]