Your brain makes antidiuretic hormone, or ADH, that affects your kidneys' ability to make urine. When you drink, your brain doesn’t make as much of this hormone, so you have to urinate more often. This may then lead to dehydration. Chronic heavy drinking is not only toxic for your body...
You might try to drink more alcohol to get rid of these symptoms, but using alcohol to manage your mental health instead of getting help can lead to more problems. Drinking alcohol excessively can also get in the way of other activities, your relationships, and your self-esteem, which c...
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Once the shame of a series of such events begins to compound each other, it's easy to see how a mild addiction escalates into a serious one...as the emotional discomfort of admitting dependence would mean accepting responsibility for behaviours during addiction, and their consequences. And...
Alcohol dependence doesn’t happen overnight. It usually develops gradually, making it hard to recognize the early warning signs. The shift often begins subtly: drinking more frequently, increasing the quantity of alcohol consumed, or relying on alcohol to manage stress or emotions. ...
Researchers discovered that by activating this brain receptor, alcohol-dependent rats decreased their alcohol intake.
responses and the time of reaction to a signal, as well as neuromuscular functions, are slowed. Complex reactions, such as those that require the brain to process more than one type of incoming information simultaneously, are impaired at BACs too low to affect simple reflexes and reaction times...
(or, in governmentmonopolies, an added profit), and, within limits, price in relation to discretionary income is the most effective single way that society has to affect per capita consumption of alcohol. However, none of the common forms of governmental or religious control has proved itself ...
Over time, your central nervous system adjusts to having alcohol around. Your body works hard to keep your brain in a more awake state and your nerves talking to one another. When the alcohol level in your system suddenly drops, your brain stays in this overactive state. That's what caus...
4)Delirium Tremens(DT’s), the most dangerous stage of alcohol withdrawal, affect 5% of people withdrawing from alcohol and begins 48-72 hours after alcohol use ceases. The hallmark of the DTs is pronounced delirium – the alcoholic is awake, but confused, agitated, sweating, hallucinating. Th...