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Fetal Alcohol Effects and complications

June 7, 2017
Fetal Alcohol Effects

Fetal Alcohol Effects are real and must never be taken for granted

Fetal Alcohol Effects: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)

When we are expecting our bundles of joy we often choose to do the right thing in order to bring forth a healthy baby. Mothers who have nursed pregnancy before will agree with me about this and they will also acknowledge that the whole process is not easy. Any mistake done can cause serious consequences both for the baby and the mother. One element that we must avoid by all standards is alcohol and drugs. Alcohol and pregnancy have nothing in common if anything bringing these two together will only result in anarchy and sorrows. And before we get there, we want to share with your some of the alcohol fetal effects on pregnancy which is professionally referred to us Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE). The purpose of this writing is to inform you of the other side of alcohol and not to scare you in all way. Doctor Dalal Akoury is an addiction veteran of several decades and she is going to professionally help us bring this discussion to perspective.

Fetal Alcohol Effects: Being exposed to alcohol

Even as we get into this discussion, doctor Akoury is registering that it is important to note that Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE) or Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is actually an umbrella term used to describe the range of effects that can occur in an individual if he or she is exposed to alcohol. These effects are never friendly and collectively or individually they may include physical, mental, behavioral, or learning disabilities. If not addressed in good time they can have a very long life implication to the victims. Remember that there are no boundaries when it comes to alcohol consumption. Like for instance, prenatal exposure to alcohol may cause disabilities that range from mild to severe. This is very important for all of us, take note that says doctor Dalal Akoury (MD) and founder of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center it doesn’t matter what kind of alcoholic beverage you use “whether it is a wine cooler, a glass of wine or a bottle of beer, any kind or amount of alcohol that a pregnant mother consumes is also being consumed by her unborn baby.”

The best cure is prevention and FASD are 100 percent preventable if a pregnant woman abstains from alcohol. We appreciate that alcohol like any other substance is very addictive and may not be easy to abstain from, but what is important is that it is not impossible. What you see as a serious obstacle is achievable with the experts at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under the able leadership of doctor Dalal Akoury. All you need to do is to call her on telephone number 843 213 1480 to schedule an appointment with her and she will be glad to help you go through that obstacle in confidence, humane and professionally.

Fetal Alcohol Effects: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)

 

 

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Drug-Abuse

Helping patients together overcome addiction

June 6, 2017
Helping patients together

Helping patients together overcome addiction for better health

Helping patients together overcome addiction: Collective responsibility

If you are driving on the road the rule is you are the only sober person and the rest are drunk, insane and careless. What it means is that when you are on the steering wheel, you ore everyone around you whether pedestrians, other motorist or animals the duty of care. In the same way, when it comes to drug abuse, it should all concerns us because the impact of the problem knows no boundary. We are all affected in one way or another and that is why we want to focus on helping patients together to overcome their addiction. Speaking to Doctor Dalal Akoury MD who is a veteran addiction expert and has impacted positively on the lives of many people globally.

In her desire to reach many, she founded AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center where she has dedicated most of her life in helping addiction patients overcome their habits by transforming each and every individual’s life through increasing awareness about health and wellness and by empowering them into finding their own inner healing power. In her practice doctor, Akoury’s focuses on personalized medicine through healthy lifestyle choices that deal with primary prevention and underlying causes instead of patching up symptoms making her one in a million that you can always rely on for all your addiction concerns.

For a better understanding, doctor Akoury is going to share with us some of the things you can or not do to help your loved one from their struggle with addiction. Professionally we will be wrong to say that helping a friend or family member who is struggling with alcohol or drugs is a simple thing. This will be misleading because the truth is that it can be heartbreakingly painful demoralizing and tiring. However, with determination and persistence help from the loved ones, it can be remarkably rewarding. Nonetheless, the process at times can seem to be so overwhelming that many may choose to go for the easiest way of ignoring it, pretending that nothing is wrong and hope it just goes away. These are possible ways of solace that one may opt for. However if one goes this root, however by denying it or minimizing it, in the long run, there will be more damaging to you, other family members, and the person you are concerned about. The consequences can be very painful and therefore it is only reasonable that action is taken now without any further delays. In the spirit of being concern about someone, the following questions can be helpful for you to take action now:

Helping patients together overcome addiction: Some things you don’t want to do

Don’t preach: in other words don’t lecture, threaten, bribe, preach or demoralize.

Don’t be a martyr: Avoid emotional appeals that may only increase feelings of guilt and the compulsion to drink or use other drugs.

Don’t cover up, by either lying or making excuses for them and their behavior.

Don’t assume their responsibilities: Taking over their responsibilities protects them from the consequences of their behavior.

Don’t argue when using: When they are using alcohol or drugs, they can’t have a rational conversation.

Don’t feel guilty or responsible for their behavior, it’s not your fault.

Don’t join them: Don’t try to keep up with them by drinking or using.

Helping patients together overcome addiction: Collective responsibility

 

 

 

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Hefty alcohol drinking and family pain

June 6, 2017
Hefty alcohol drinking

Hefty alcohol drinking and family pain can end by quitting drinking

Hefty alcohol drinking and family pain: Support mechanisms

In every family setup, there are bound to be certain things that cause discomfort to the well-being of the family. Much as it is everyone’s desire to enjoy the maximum comfort, this is not always the case in the day to day life. The problem could further be complicated if one or more members of the family are abusing alcohol or drugs or both. In our series of articles about alcoholism, we want to focus on finding out why hefty alcohol drinking and drug addiction are the major causes of pain in most families. Speaking to the experts from AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under the able leadership of doctor Dalal Akoury (MD) who is also the founder of this facility, it is evident that alcoholism and drug addiction affects the whole family indiscriminately.

Everyone in the family whether young, teenage, or grown-up children; wives or husbands; brothers or sisters; parents or other relatives and friends all are not immune to the effects of alcohol abuse. That is to say, if one member of the family is addicted to alcohol and drugs, the whole family will suffer the consequences. According to the experts from AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center, an addiction is a family disease that stresses the family to the breaking point thereby impacting on the stability of the home, the family’s unity, mental health, physical health, finances, and overall family dynamics.

From that background, it is evident that without finding timely solutions to any addictive substances, the consequences of that negligence would cause a total disruption to the family life and worst still cause harmful effects that can last a lifetime. Doctor Akoury says that dealing with any kind of addiction is not very easy for various reasons including the fact that no family is born with the knowledge of how to deal effectively with addiction. Because this is not inborn practice, it is however very important those individual users and their loved ones are educated on the skill that must be practiced daily to contain and bring the scourge of addiction to manageable levels. That is why at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center, we have prioritized creating awareness about all the elements through which alcoholism and drug addiction causes family pain and beyond.

Hefty alcohol drinking and family pain: Obstacles to recovery

This is often a common question more so with people taking care of victims like for instance one may ask “why do I need help? She is the problem.” Have you ever said something like that? One of the biggest challenges to family recovery is the belief that everything will be ok by just fixing their loved one who is addicted to alcohol or drugs. After all, “she’s the one who needs help, not me!” that is very easy to say but professionally doctor Akoury says that helping families understand that just as the addict is responsible for their own recovery they too are responsible for their own recovery. One fact must be put straight and that is the whole family must be in this together without excluding the children. Remember that addiction in the family strains relationships and people are likely to become anxious and tired. Because of this, you will need all the help to overcome heavy alcohol drinking by calling doctor Akoury for a one on one deliberations about all the concerns you may have.

Hefty alcohol drinking and family pain: Support mechanisms

 

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Behavioral Addiction and Brain Function

Rejuvenating brain health

June 6, 2017
Rejuvenating brain health

Rejuvenating brain health as a way of fighting substance abuse

Rejuvenating brain health: Finding solutions of addiction from the brain

Life is directly connected to the brain. The moment the brain stops, death is registered. Life is not all about the heart beating but is all about rejuvenating brain health. Any distortion of the brain’s health brings all other things to a halt. To understand this better, we want to share with you the importance of keeping our brains’ healthy as a solution to drug addiction. As we engage the services of addiction expert doctor Dalal Akoury (MD) President and founder of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center, let us take this journey together for the good of all of us. This facility was formed out of the deepest concern doctor Dalal Akoury after seeing and attending to many addicts of different substances. You can become a part of the solution to this problem by calling doctor Dalal Akoury for a more in-depth and professional redress.

Doctor Akoury reiterates that the concerns of many people are that for any addictive behavior, a good place to start the journey of recovery is and should always be at the end of your fork. Remember that any effort towards beating an addiction and staying committed to sustained recovery will heavily depend on your optimal and perfection of your mental health, besides that there is scientific evidence that your mental health will be affected powerfully by what you feed on. A path to recovery from destructive addictions, including those to drugs, alcohol, compulsive eating or gambling, could start at your next meal. It is therefore very important that no time is wasted in dealing with all manner of addiction. The moment you notice signs of addiction, it is only fear that you seek treatment immediately before it is too late to make any significance change.

Rejuvenating brain health: Effects of relapse

Over the decades working with patients, I have seen how the 12-step approach can be very effective when the patient is willing to recover. Alongside that, I have also established that without dietary changes being implemented on the part of the victim, any attempt of abstinence and recovery is needlessly more vulnerable to relapse. At the heart of the problem are a new set of dietary choices. And because many people are currently feeding on highly-processed foods, foods which are not originally designed by nature but designed in the laboratories, this can cause life to be very complicated in the long run. Remember that the main ingredients of such foods are sugar, refined carbohydrates, and vegetable oils and besides, the producers of such foods have designed them primary to taste good and appealing to the eye for the purpose of luring the client into more consumption that is to say they are more of profit oriented than health.

Professionally doctor Akoury is of the opinion that feeding on this kind of food will only succeed in lighting up the same pleasure-rewards areas in our brains that are activated by drugs like cocaine and heroin as well as by a variety of addictive behaviors. Ingesting dopamine-triggering foods, in other words, subjecting your brain to the ups and downs, highs and lows, of any addictive substance or activity since you are stirring the same neurochemical pot (no pun intended).

Rejuvenating brain health: Finding solutions of addiction from the brain

 

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Unseen addiction craving challenges

June 6, 2017
Unseen addiction craving

Unseen addiction craving challenges can be avoided by engaging in meaningful activities

Unseen addiction craving challenges: Using self-talk

For many patients, a variety of automatic thoughts accompany craving but are so deeply established that patients are not aware of them. Automatic thoughts associated with all the hidden or unseen addiction craving challenges often have a sense of urgency and exaggerated dire consequences. Some of those automatic thoughts may include the following:

  • I have to use now
  • I’ll die if I don’t use or
  • I can’t do anything else until I use.

According to the expert opinion of doctor Dalal Akoury MD and founder of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center in coping with craving, it is important that both the patient and the therapist should collectively recognize the automatic thoughts and take measures of encountering them effectively. To help patients recognize their automatic thoughts, therapists can point out cognitive distortions that occur during your sessions with the client. Like for instances, your therapist could point out that a few times today you’ve said you feel like you have to use the drug and then the question would follow that,  while you were having that feelings were you really aware of those thoughts when you mentioned them? That is just one strategy and the other strategy could be when you are using a tape recorder, you could help your patients by slowing down the tape to recognize cognitions.

Unseen addiction craving challenges: The benefits of recording therapy sessions

The good thing about recording the session is because it can be replayed over and over. Like for instance, the patient may have said something and so you could play it again saying “when you decided to go out last night, you said that you really weren’t aware of thinking about using cocaine.” That is when he/she said but in your own professional evaluation you think otherwise, in situations like that you could play the tape again and help the user to try to remember what the night was like, sort of play it back like a movie in slow motion, we could find a couple of examples of things you said to yourself, maybe without even realizing it, that led to cocaine use.

Finally, once automatic thoughts are identified, it then becomes much easier to counter or confront them using positive rather than negative self-talk which may include cognitions such as challenging the thought like “I won’t really die if I don’t have cocaine” and normalizing craving which can be very uncomfortable if not handled professionally. Remember that if you are having any concerns about craving for any drug and you are wondering where to begin from, you can call on doctor Dalal Akoury today for the commencement of your treatment today.

Unseen addiction craving challenges: Using self-talk

 

 

 

 

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