Author: John Carter

If you understand why it is happening, you are more likely to be able to help them stop. It can make you feel sick or dizzy or give you headaches. It can damage your nose, mouth or throat. As a person continues to use drugs, the brain adapts by reducing the ability of cells in […]

In some cases, it can even contribute to feelings of physical discomfort and pain. It also increases the risk of problems with substance use, unhealthy coping mechanisms, risky behaviors, and suicide. A person living with unresolved trauma can re-experience their trauma in a variety of ways. Additionally, the same researchers conducted a follow-up study that […]

If you choose to detox at home, make sure to have a friend or family member with you to monitor your symptoms and call for medical help if necessary. For many of the 19 million Americans struggling with addiction, emergency department visits may be the only health care they receive. Long-acting benzodiazepines, such as chlordiazepoxide […]

As for the Ketamine overdose, benzodiazepines are widely used in cases of agitation, while glycopyrrolate is applied when a considerable amount of salivary secretions appear. For the DXM overdose, stomach pumping and exercises for even breathing are needed. Nitrous Oxide becomes dangerous and unpredictable if taken together with other drugs, alcohol, or nicotine. Finally, if […]

As a result, they eventually need to drink more to notice the same effects they once did. The pancreas helps regulate how your body uses insulin and responds to glucose. If your pancreas and liver don’t function properly due to pancreatitis or liver disease, you could experience low blood sugar, or hypoglycemia. Risk factors for […]

The less alcohol you drink, the lower your risk for these health effects, including several types of cancer. Behavioral treatments—also known as alcohol counseling, or talk therapy, and provided by licensed therapists—are aimed at changing drinking behavior. Examples of behavioral treatments are brief interventions and reinforcement approaches, treatments that build motivation and teach skills for […]

When you stop consuming alcohol after prolonged, heavy use, your CNS can’t respond or regulate itself fast enough. It becomes overexcited because there’s no more alcohol to slow it down. Benzodiazepines (tranquilizers) are the main treatment for symptoms of withdrawal, like the shakes, and are also key to preventing serious complications such as delirium tremens (DTs). […]

Workplace Conflict Resolution services provide employees, managers, and supervisors with assistance in navigating workplace tensions and challenging dynamics, and helpful communication methods to overcome past, current, and future barriers in professional relationships. These services should offer both group and one on one mediation sessions, as well as resources, trainings, and supports to assist employees and […]

The groups differed in current employment status, with greater unemployment in the DM/Q arm. The second group received clonidine 0.4–1.2 mg per day in three divided doses according to the patient’s tolerance, Clonazepam 1 mg every eight hours, acetaminophen 500 mg every six hours, and dextromethorphan 75 mg every six hours. This fresh start gives them time to learn […]

Opioids increase the tone and decrease the propulsivecontractions of the smooth muscle of the gastrointestinal tract. The resultantprolongation in gastrointestinal transit time may be responsible for theconstipating effect of fentanyl. Because opioids may increase biliary tract pressure,some patients with biliary colic may experience worsening rather than relief ofpain. In clinical trials of 357 non-opioid tolerant […]