Author: Charles Frank

These RCOs and recovery leaders represent a core component of the community recovery landscape and their role represents a type of RC that can be separated from the social RC of immediate personal relationships. And includes environmental factors that will increase the predictive power of RC measures. As outlined above, one of the key challenges […]

Because of the way these drugs work on the brain, they affect the ability to make healthy choices and decisions. Even drinking makes people more likely to get involved in dangerous situations, like driving under the influence or having unprotected sex. Drugs are chemicals or substances that change the way our bodies work. Some are medicines […]

This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. Health, safety and socioeconomic problems attributable to alcohol can be reduced […]

In studies with rats or mice, Trulicity and medicines that work like Trulicity caused thyroid tumors, including thyroid cancer. It is not known if Trulicity will cause thyroid tumors or a type of thyroid cancer called medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) in people. Do not take Trulicity if you or any of your family members have […]

The high-functioning alcoholic is perhaps the furthest from the alcoholic stereotype, leading many to be in denial about their addiction. About 62% of functional alcoholics work full time, and 26% possess a college degree or higher. This subtype makes up 19.5% of people addicted to alcohol in the U.S. Individuals in the young adult subtype make up 31% of […]

On a rainy October night outside his home in Libreville, Gabon, Christophe Bibang explained how many Gabonese, especially those who practice Bwiti, are experiencing a shift in their relationship with iboga. Recently, more people are buying iboga root – either lengths of bark or in powdered form – in big cities for use in urban […]

For non-prescription products, read the label or package ingredients carefully. Do not stop taking trazodone without talking to your doctor. Your doctor will probably decrease your dose gradually. Your doctor should check your progress at regular visits. Do not use this medicine if you have used an MAO inhibitor in the past 14 days. Trazodone […]

You might wonder how long AA meetings are. Or maybe you’re concerned about whether you’ll need to get up and share your story at a meeting. Learning more about what to expect in an AA meeting can help you feel more at ease and get more out of the experience. The best AA speakers are […]

Dr Nuke says that anyone picking mushrooms should use “at least three independent tests” to make sure the mushrooms are safe. These should be run on fresh, mature, fully-grown, healthy mushrooms in order to be as accurate as possible. Once dried, he notes, it’s much harder to spot mould or bacteria growing on the mushrooms. […]

As with other medical diseases but unlike most bad habits, prospective studies demonstrate that willpower per se is of little predictive significance. Alcoholism is a complex, many-sided phenomenon, and its many formal definitions vary according to the point of view of the definer. A simplistic definition calls alcoholism a disease caused by chronic, compulsive drinking. […]