Amphetamine addiction: Causes, signs, diagnosis, and treatment

Content Types of Amphetamines Can I drink alcohol with amphetamines? Causes of addiction What are the long-term effects of using it? It measured MA use by self-report and analysis of hair, severity of dependence over time and treatment retention—finding no statistically significant difference between the study groups on planned analysis. Post-hoc analysis demonstrated a reduction […]

The Abstinence Myth in Treatment

Reducing it to a single success-rate statistic that only looks at substance intake does not even touch any of these deeper issues and is THE REASON why people keep relapsing. When we promote this sort of black-or-white thinking, we create the same mentality in our clients. If they only measure their success by abstinence, then […]

Alcoholic Liver Disease: Reversibility, Signs, Stages

Further exploration and analysis of the study results revealed that people who drank beer or spirits, as well as binge drinkers, had the highest risk for mortality from all causes. By the time a person is in end-stage alcoholism, there can be no denying that drinking has taken over their life and damaged their health. […]

Alcohol Allergies Can Cause Sneezing, Flushing, Headache

First, some people have lower levels of the enzymes the body needs to break alcohol (ethanol) into metabolites that it can process and excrete. When byproducts of alcohol don’t get broken down quickly enough, they accumulate to levels high enough to cause a mild allergic reaction. People who have already been diagnosed with sleep apnea […]