Uncontrollable drinking problems and denial

June 22, 2017

Uncontrollable drinking problems and denial are the enemies of treatment

Uncontrollable drinking problems and denial: Alcohol dependence

Are you on the verge of becoming an alcoholic? I may not have the facts about you, but one fact is common with people who are into alcohol and drugs. I am talking about denial which is one of the biggest obstacles to getting help for all the uncontrollable drinking problems (alcohol abuse and alcoholism). The desire to drink is so strong that the mind finds many ways to rationalize drinking, even when the consequences are obvious. By keeping you from looking honestly at your behavior and its negative effects, denial also exacerbates alcohol-related problems with work, finances, and relationships.

Uncontrollable drinking problems and denial: If you have a drinking problem, you may deny it by

Drastically underestimating how much you drink
Downplaying the negative consequences of your drinking
Complaining that family and friends are exaggerating the problem
Blaming your drinking or drinking-related problems on others

Take, for example, you may want to blame your ‘unfair boss’ for trouble at work or a ‘nagging wife’ for your marital issues, rather than look at how your drinking is contributing to the problem. And even though activities involving work, relationship, and financial stresses can happen to everyone, experts at AWAREmed health center reiterates that an overall pattern of deterioration and blaming others may be a sign of trouble. Therefore if you find yourself rationalizing your, drinking habits, lying about them, or refusing to discuss the subject, take a moment to consider why you’re so defensive. If you truly believe you don’t have a problem, there should be no reason for you to cover up your drinking or make excuses. And if you are persuaded that something is not right, immediate action needs to be taken. You may now want to consider scheduling an appointment with doctor Dalal Akoury today for the commencement of your treatment and recovery process. In the meantime, the following are additional signs and symptoms of compulsive drinking problems to help you make informed decisions.

Uncontrollable drinking problems and denial: Other signs and symptoms of alcoholism

You’ve lost control over your drinking. You often drink more alcohol than you wanted to, for longer than you intended, or despite telling yourself you wouldn’t.

You want to quit drinking, but you can’t. You have a persistent desire to cut down or stop your alcohol use, but your efforts to quit have been unsuccessful.

You have given up other activities because of alcohol. You’re spending less time on activities that used to be important to you (hanging out with family and friends, going to the gym, pursuing your hobbies) because of your alcohol use.

Alcohol takes up a great deal of your energy and focus. You spend a lot of time drinking, thinking about it, or recovering from its effects. You have few if any interests or social involvements that don’t revolve around drinking.

You drink even though you know it’s causing problems. For example, you recognize that your alcohol use is damaging your marriage, making your depression worse, or causing health problems, but you continue to drink anyway.

Uncontrollable drinking problems and denial: Alcohol dependence

Alcohol consumption acceptability and the dangers

June 20, 2017

Alcohol consumption acceptability and the dangers are real. Choose wisely and be healthy

Alcohol consumption acceptability and the dangers: Long-term effects of heavy drinking

There is no question about alcohol consumption acceptability globally. Each nation has rules guiding the consumption of this substance. But away from all those rules, it does not delete the dangers that come with alcohol use. What is worrying is that before the formulation of the rules, the dangers are known. And so it is quite unfortunate that alcohol is legal in as much as we are revealing its dangerous effects to human health. One of the control measures put by the authorities is the introduction of age limit. Currently, in many nations across the globe, the recommended age for drinking is 18 years though in some countries this limit can be up to 19 years or even more. According to the experts at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under the able leadership of doctor Dalal Akoury MD, this is one of the most ineffective control as many under age easily get access to this substance. Young people drink at home, in the streets and pubs despite this rule further complicating the dangers attached. Despite all these challenges, we can still do something to be safe from this scourge of alcoholism. If you are struggling with alcohol addiction, you can seek professional assistance from doctor Akoury by calling her today for the commencement of your recovery program.

Alcohol consumption acceptability and the dangers: The law about drinking and driving

Many lives are unnecessarily lost on the roads globally due to drink driving. Studies have also established that alcohol is the major cause of many of these deaths and because of these nearly all states across the globe are taking this seriously by enforcing stringent laws to protect and save lives. Drink driving has become a serious criminal offence and driving with blood alcohol content of 0.08 % and above will land you in the wrong books with the authorities. Other general illegalities and penalties include:

To drive while impaired even if your BAC is less than 0.08 per cent.
Declining to provide a breath sample when asked by the police is also illegal.
Suspension of your driver’s license on the spot for 90 days
Separate criminal charges to face in court.
Also, if you are learning to drive and have a Graduated Driver’s License, you are not allowed to drive after drinking ANY alcohol.

These are just but a few rules and penalties applicable in most countries in an effort to bringing order on our roads. The same penalties and more are also applicable where one mixes alcohol with other drugs. To demonstrate the seriousness of this problem the authorities in Ontario have made even much harsher penalties to offenders. For instance if you are convicted of impaired driving more than once the penalties is as follows:

First conviction – your driver’s license is suspended for one year and a further $600 fine.
Second conviction – your driver’s license is suspended for three years and 14 days in jail.
Third conviction – your license is suspended for 10 years or for life plus 90 days in jail
Fourth conviction: such offenders will never own a driver’s license in Ontario soil again and they will still be sentenced to jail for another 90 days.

It look harsh but if this is what will bring serenity on our roads then it is worth it.

Alcohol consumption acceptability and the dangers: Long-term effects of heavy drinking

Alcohol composition and marijuana

June 17, 2017

Alcohol composition and marijuana are loaded with toxic elements and must not be used

Alcohol composition and marijuana: The truth about alcohol usage

Alcohol may be a golden liquid appealing to many people but its glittering image is just an invitation to treat. What looks good is just in the face value. But the real alcohol composition is loaded with toxic elements harmful to human health. Therefore, what is the true content of alcohol? Speaking to the experts from AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under the leadership of Doctor Dalal Akoury MD it is evident that alcohol consists of just one substance only (ethanol) while on the other hand, marijuana contains more than 400 known chemicals, including some cancer-causing substances found in tobacco smoke. Unlike cigarette smokers, marijuana smokers inhale deeply and hold the smoke as long as possible to increase the effect of the drug thereby worsening the damage to the lungs.

Alcohol is eliminated from the body in a few hours, but THC stays in the body for weeks, possibly months, depending on the length and intensity of usage. That is to say THC damages the immune system while alcohol doesn’t. And just to put one point right, we are not trying to reduce in any way the dangers of alcohol abuse, absolutely not because the fact is alcohol is equally harmful. But that said and done, it is equally important for users to know the intensity of chemicals in marijuana and that some of them causes cancer and remain in the body long after the drug is taken.

Alcohol depresses your central nervous system (brain and spinal cord), lowers inhibitions and impairs judgment. Drinking large amounts can lead to a coma and even death. Mixing alcohol with medications or street drugs is extremely dangerous and can be fatal. Alcohol influences your brain and leads to a loss of coordination, slowed reflexes, distorted vision, memory lapses, and blackouts. Teenage bodies are still growing and alcohol has a greater impact on young people’s physical and mental well-being than on older people.

Alcohol composition and marijuana: Short and Long-term Effects

Finally, and according to the experts from AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center, feelings of warmth, flushed skin, impaired judgment, lack of coordination, slurred speech and memory and comprehension loss. Heavy drinking usually results in a serious hangover, shakiness, anxieties, headache, weakness, nausea, and sometimes vomiting. While on the other hand the unpleasant tolerance effects of alcohol that results in one developing the skills and ability to drink more. This leads to a deteriorating physical condition that can include liver damage and increases the risk of heart disease. A pregnant woman may give birth to a baby with defects that affect the baby’s heart, brain, and other major organs. A person can become dependent on alcohol. If someone suddenly stops drinking, withdrawal symptoms may set in. They range from jumpiness, sleeplessness, sweating and poor appetite to convulsions and sometimes death. Alcohol abuse can also lead to violence and conflicts in one’s personal relationships.

Alcohol composition and marijuana: The truth about alcohol usage

Alcoholism treatment complexity

June 7, 2017

Alcoholism treatment complexity is the only remedy for this problem

Alcoholism treatment complexity: Treatment approaches for drug addiction

When we make references to the alcoholism treatment complexity, three things comes to mind. The significance of denial, relapse and withdrawal symptoms will be areas of concern. And to understand these concerns, we are going to seek the intervention of the experts from AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under the leadership of Doctor Dalal Akoury MD a respected addiction expert globally to give some insight of why the complexity of alcohol and drug addiction treatment in our societies today. As we progress into the discussion, it will interest you to note that doctor Dalal Akoury formulated this facility primarily to make a difference in the lives of those individuals who are almost losing hope in ever living their life as normal as it should be because of the bondage of alcohol and drug addiction. Therefore even as you continue reading this article, we want to prevail upon you to take the first step of reclaiming your life back by scheduling an appointment with doctor Dalal Akoury today and together with her team of experts from AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center, they will gladly attend to your individual problems professionally and with a lot of dignity and confidentiality.

Alcoholism treatment complexity: Denial

Denial always comes first because it is one huge obstacle to face before you can even purport to have a client to treat in your clinic says doctor Akoury. This is often very challenging in the sense that the victims themselves are not so sure of the problem they are struggling with. At this time they are always home and dry living in the cocoon of their addiction with little or no precautionary measures being taken to remedy the situation. Many at times it takes the efforts of people around them to bring to the surface their addiction problem but even as this is always the norm, many of the relatives and family members sometimes also live in denial and so fail to face the problem head on. This is often necessitated by the fact that they are afraid of what others will say about their loved ones and family in general. So in an effort to protecting the reputation or image of the individual and the family, they keep quite hoping that this will soon go away and that life will be back to normalcy without outsiders noticing. This consideration is one of the reasons as to why there is the complexity of alcohol and drug addiction treatment in our societies today says doctor Akoury.

While this is happening doctor Akoury is registering that it is very important to take note that drug addiction is a complex illness characterized by intense and, at times, uncontrollable drug craving, along with compulsive drug seeking and use that persist even in the face of devastating consequences. While the path to drug addiction begins with the voluntary act of taking drugs, over time a person’s ability to choose not to do so becomes compromised, and seeking and consuming the drug becomes compulsive. This behavior results largely from the effects of prolonged drug exposure on brain functioning. Addiction is a brain disease that affects multiple brain circuits, including those involved in reward and motivation, learning and memory, and inhibitory control over behavior.

Alcoholism treatment complexity: Treatment approaches for drug addiction

Ending addiction chains

June 3, 2017

Ending addiction chains will liberate both direct and indirect victims from the bondage and frustrations that come with substance abusending

Ending addiction chains: Long-term recovery

The consequences of using drugs demands that the right thing be done. There is no right thing than ending addiction chains. It is no wonder, experts across the globe and particularly those from AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center recognizes the serious impact of alcohol and drug use on crime across the globe. Besides that as professionals we also know, from decades of experience that millions of people who have been in the criminal justice system have broken the chain through long-term recovery from alcohol and drug addiction. It is because of these reasons that we have resolve to create awareness across the globe so that together we can all participate in breaking addiction chains through professional treatment.

It will also interest you to note that doctor Dalal Akoury (MD) who is also the founder of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center, is a well-respected addiction veteran and through her many people have and are still continuing to recover from their hopelessness due to substance abuse. She has made a significance difference in people’s lives and therefore if you or anyone you know is struggling with any kind of addiction, then you can be part of the celebrating endless list of totally recovered clients that passed through her by calling her on telephone number 843 213 1480 to schedule for an appointment with her for the commencement of your treatment and total elimination of addiction from your life.

Ending addiction chains: Alcohol energy drinks

When we talk about drug addiction, the first thing that ring into your mind is the misuse of hard drugs like cocaine, heroin, marijuana, cigarette, alcohol and many more. In very rear cases will you find people associating drug addiction with energy drinks yet they form serious part of substances that are very addictive. Because we desire to kick out this scourge of addiction out of our lives, we are not going to relent until everything is put on the surface for everyone to take action on. It is therefore very important to appreciate that, caffeinated alcoholic beverages (CAB’s) or Alcohol energy drinks (AED’s) as they are commonly known are premixed beverages that contain not only alcohol but also include caffeine and other stimulants. They are often sold in very attractive and luring tall, narrow cans similar to non-alcoholic energy drinks, which are popular drinks among teens. And in many cases they are marketed with content that carry teen-friendly names and contain a lot of sugar and flavoring.

Finally, take note that a typical can has about as much caffeine as a large cup of coffee, along with additives like guarana and ginseng that can speed up the central nervous system. This may come to you as harmless as their producers wants you to believe, but be worn that if you are committed into breaking addiction chains effectively, then these energy drinks should also be a no go zone.

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