Author: John Carter

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 […]

Alcohol-related problems—which result from drinking too much, too fast, or too often—are among the most significant public health issues in the United States. Regardless of the restrictions on your license out of state, Illinois may still suspend your license for a minimum of one year. The suspension might be even longer if this isn’t the […]

It involves managing withdrawal symptoms under medical supervision and allowing the body to clear itself of harmful substances. Listed below are some reasons why substance use disorders co-occur along with mental health conditions, according to the National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH). Inpatient centers (rehab) may be the best option when a person’s substance use […]

This might explain why listeners more readily try to make sense of complex recordings while under the influence. With debilitated short-term memory, time intervals can expand over the course of the high. With time moving more slowly, listeners are under the impression of perceiving more musical information — trained ear, or not. In effect, cannabis […]

In 1965 “the first Race Relations Act outlawed racial discrimination and set up the Race Relations Board (R.R.B) to investigate complaints”, largely reflecting the sense of equality the counterculture stood for. But radical, liberalizing legislation such as this was not just prominent in England. In America the Civil Rights Movement pressed for equality and in […]