Yoga as a Healthier Way to Cope with Stress After a long day of feeling stressed, many people use wine or other alcohol to relax and release tension. However, drinking alcohol every day is not the healthiest way to relieve stress. Using alcohol to cope with stress and anxiety not only just masks the symptoms,…
How To Choose the Right Rehab Program The best way to choose a rehab program that gives you the best chance at recovery is to speak with a medical professional. They will be able to assess how addiction is affecting you along with factors of your life that can influence your recovery journey. Some rehab…
Alcohol abuse and alcohol use disorder (AUD) kills over 3 million people each year, making up about 6% of global deaths according to the National Center for Drug Abuse Statistics. Even though people are aware of the dangers of alcohol use and binge drinking, they continue to abuse alcohol, mostly because they cannot help it.…
How to Enjoy Summer in Sobriety The summer months bring many things with them — warmer weather, longer daylight hours, and more opportunities for socialization to name a few. If we are to face the facts, the American brand of social life often includes the not-so-secret ingredient of alcohol. Mainstream media rarely portrays a good…
What to Expect from Your Body When You Quit Drinking Alcohol After living with an active alcohol addiction and deciding that is time to stop drinking alcohol, many wonder what effects it will have on your body when you stop engaging in alcohol consumption. In the initial stages, individuals will often go through a period…
How Addiction Affects the Brain Addiction is a complex disease of the brain that causes the brain’s reward system to intensely crave a substance (drug addiction or alcohol addiction) or behavior (gambling addiction, internet addiction, or sex addiction), causing an inability to stop using the substance. Obsession starts to take over, and soon the person…
What is Considered Alcoholism versus Casual Drinking? As per the national institute on alcohol abuse and Addiction, alcoholism is characterized by an individual engaging in heavy drinking or binge drinking behaviors that have begun to create negative consequences within your day-to-day life. If an individual living with an alcohol addiction attempts to stop their alcohol…
Do You Have a Problem with Alcohol? Alcohol abuse is defined by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) as: Binge drinking is a pattern of drinking that brings the blood alcohol concentration (BAC) to 0.08% or higher. For men, this is usually 5 or more drinks in about two hours, and for…