BBC NEWS | Health | Scan ‘detects obsessive disorder’
Scientists say they have pinpointed differences in the way the brains of people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) work. …
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Monthly Archives: July 2008
Liver Can’t Take Alcohol Forever
State of Drinking: Alcohol overwhelms resilient organ | wausaudailyherald.com | Wausau Daily Herald
The liver is an amazingly resilient organ, one of the few in the body that can regenerate itself, like a salamander that can regrow a severed tail. ……But when exposed to a chronic onslaught of alcohol, the liver can’t keep up with the job of breaking down and metabolizing the poison. Fat begins to accumulate inside the liver cells, and the organ becomes enlarged, causing abdominal pain. ……
Heroin, crack and Prada shoes
They say addicts are all the same. But that doesn’t mean they’re all equal. Rose Garnett, who managed a Notting Hill theatre while she was hooked on hard drugs, explores the difference that wealth and connections make – even on the way to self-destruction…
Alcohol + loud music = more alcohol
Researchers have already shown that listening to fast music can speed up the rate of drinking. But now they say loud music has the same effect. Both fast and loud music can heighten arousal, causing people to drink faster and order more drinks, say the authors of the study, published online today in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research. And there’s another reason why people drink more when the band is blasting: They can’t converse. …
Alcohol + loud music = more alcohol | Booster Shots | Los Angeles Times
Drunk Russians Drown in Droves
“When it’s hot, people swim in unsupervised places,” said Natalya Zoltseva, a spokeswoman for Russia’s Emergencies Ministry, by telephone in Moscow today. “They have alcoholic drinks and then they dive in.”
The ministry collects daily figures on “events in swimming pools” and posts them on its Web site. Six hundred have died since July 1, 291 of them in the last five days alone. Today’s posting, covering the 24 hours until 6 a.m. this morning, reads “information received about 76 events. 84 people suffered. 19 saved. 65 dead.”…
You got to figure that lifeguards aren’t a big priority in the РОДИНА…or maybe they’re drunk too.
‘Cleaner’
We’ll see…
Former ‘Law & Order’ star gets tough as ‘Cleaner’ – CNN.com
“In my first meeting with the co-creators, Jonathan Prince and Robert Munic, I asked them, ‘How do you think audiences are gonna take to the idea? It seems a little outside the realm of possibility.’“And they said, ‘It happens to be based on a real guy’ — Warren Boyd, who happens to be a co-producer of the show.”
As William Banks (the character Boyd inspired), Bratt leads an ill-assorted trio of other former users, a sort of A-Team (as in “addicts”) who’ll do almost anything, even at their own risk, to save their addict-in-need. …
About Sleep
It’s very common to have sleep problems in early recovery, and it is also very common for people with addiction to have had sleep problems all their lives. This has less to do with the past drug use than it does with brain functioning, so I’d like to explain a bit about that and how your doctor can help.In general, there are two kinds of sleep troubles: …
Kids don’t get the “addiction” part until they try to stop smoking
“Kids are experiencing symptoms of dependence with really low exposures to cigarettes, and beginning to experience this difficulty of quitting very, very early on,” said Jennifer O’Loughlin, lead author of the study published online Wednesday in the American Journal of Public Health. “For kids, there’s no window of opportunity that you can kind of experiment with cigarettes and get away with it.”
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5ijuv6DpLJ3Sr5CYlBSgbHiO3uuHQ
Buddhist Recovery
This website focuses on resources that can help illuminate the Buddhist path to freedom from alcoholism and addiction.
Buddhist Recovery
A Favorite Book
About 18 or so years ago, the author Lawrence Block wrote a novel called Random Walk, about a young man who begins a journey eastward from Oregon on foot, on what he imagines is a whim. Along the way he picks up followers, including a murderous character whose coming to terms with his past makes up a powerful subplot.
The book is clearly a parable for the recovery process, as well as a New Age venture into mysticism. Like all Block’s novels, it is tight and well-crafted. Unfortunately it fell flat on its face and is now out of print. Nonetheless, it’s a great read if you can find a copy at your local library or as a used book.
Oh, for crying out loud…
Does this guy need a different hobby, or what?
Generations of recovering alcoholics, soldiers, weary parents, exploited workers and just about anybody feeling beaten down by life have found solace in a short prayer that begins, “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.”
Now the Serenity Prayer is about to endure a controversy over its authorship that is likely to be anything but serene. … MORE…
Women More Prone To Alcoholism?
Does Gene Variant Make Women More Prone To Alcoholism?
ScienceDaily (July 9, 2008) — A particular gene variant might make women more susceptible to alcoholism. At least, a study carried out by the Universities of Bonn and Sweden’s Karolinska Institute makes this a plausible conclusion….
Cheers, without booze or drugs
By Bill
The three attributes, the Steps, Traditions and Concepts, are the foundations of any program: Unity, Service and Recovery. Just as a triangle can’t support itself without all three sides, a 12-Step Group couldn’t survive without all three “sides” of its structure. With its sides intact, on the other hand, a triangle (or pyramid) is the most stable structure there is.
We have to:
* Stick together and support each other;
* Make sure that we — and newcomers — have a place to come to;
* Progress physically, spirutually and emotionally so that we can get better ourselves and then help others to recover.The home group is the basis of all three things.
Freedom from the Frenzy
Go to this lady’s page. Read her entry. Comment. Encourage.
Freedom from the Frenzy – The Familiar is so Tempting
I’m trying really hard to keep all the good things in my life in perspective.
FDA Requests Black Box on Antibiotics
FDA Requests Black Box on Antibiotics Warning about Tendon Ruptures
Makers of fluoroquinolone antibiotics are strongly requested
by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to add a black box warning patients about
the risks of tendon ruptures. ……The risk of tendon ruptures is “especially increased” in patients older than 60, and those with kidney, heart or lung transplants.
The fluoroquinolone antibiotics targeted by the black box request include ciprofloxacin sold by Bayer A.G. under the brand names Cipro, Ciproxin and Ciprobay, which is effective against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. The same class involves levofloxacin sold by Ortho-McNeil under the trade name Levaquin. The drug is usually used in respiratory infections….
