Christmastime brings different problems for different people, but it can be a particularly difficult time for someone who is in the early stages of recovering from alcohol misuse. The Christmas period brings about extra challenges for someone who has accepted that their life has become intolerable with alcohol in it, and they are doing their …
After prolonged periods of heavy drinking, both the physical and mental health of anyone who over indulges is not very good. There are some people who need detoxification, many people do not. Their self-confidence and self-esteem will usually be very low. There is a lot of healing to be done. People who transition from …
Anyone who seeks help for a drinking problem can consider it one of the best decisions that they will ever make. There are various types of treatments available, but they all have the same goal, to help the alcoholic get better. I say “help”, because most of the hard work is done by the …
There is a myth about “Gateway Drugs” that has been disproved, but has started to perpetuate again. The words below, which have been attributed to Russel Brand, explain concisely what the gateway is. “Cannabis isn’t a gateway drug. Alcohol isn’t a gateway drug. Nicotine isn’t a gateway drug. Caffeine isn’t a gateway drug. Trauma is …
New drinking driving limits will hit motorists from midnight tonight in a bid to slash the death toll on Scotland’s roads. Scots who drink in the evening are effectively banned from getting behind the wheel for much of the following day, under the strict new laws. As the drink-drive limit is cut, police chiefs warned …
Drunkenness – that fierce rage for the slow, sure poison, that oversteps every other consideration; that casts aside wife, children, friends, happiness, and station; and hurries its victims madly on to degradation and death. Charles Dickens
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