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If you get drunk once a week, are you an alcoholic?
Alcoholism is like any other addiction. Addicted people need their drugs in order to function. If they do not get them, they suffer physical, emotional and psychological symptoms known as withdrawal....
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Q&A: What is Alcoholic Cirrhosis – Liver Disease?
Habitual drinking of alcohol can damage the liver. There are 3 types of damage: alcoholic fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis, and alcoholic cirrhosis. The amount of damage depends on the amount of...
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What is worse for you, cigarettes or cigars?
In terms of cancer, cigars tend to produce cancer of the digestive system — stomach, intestines, colon — more often than cigarettes, which cause more lung cancer due to more inhalation. Both cause...
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Q&A — Do Buddhists Drink Alcohol?
When lay Buddhists “take refuge,” the Buddhist equivalent of confirmation, bar mitzvah, and similar ceremonies affirming one’s belief, they agree to attempt to live in conformity with the Five...
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Q&A: Does drinking 6-8 units of alcohol a night make me an alcoholic?
The whole question: I drink 6-8 units* every night, but if I start feeling even slightly fuzzy I stop drinking. Last time I got drunk was 3 and half years ago, so am I alcoholic? Most people would feel...
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Q&A: What is the amount of ethanol in one standard alcoholic drink?
The amount of alcohol in a standard drink varies by country, from 6 grams in Austria to 19.75 grams in Japan. (Japan, as a country, is in serious denial about the extent of their drinking problems....
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Question: How long is one considered a recovering addict?
The use of the words “recovering” and “recovered” are a couple of the trivialities that people argue about when they should be paying attention to more important things. There are two opinions. One is...
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What do cross addiction and cross dependence mean?
All addictions work in the same parts of the brain, by modifying or imitating the production of neurotransmitters that cause pleasant feelings. This is as true of shopping addiction as it is of heroin....
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I heard a gal tell a judge in court she was clean and sober, and he said she...
We are clean when the drugs (including alcohol, which is just another drug) are no longer in our system. But there is a whole lot more to sobriety than simply being drug-free. I sometimes tell people...
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Why I Haven’t Been Posting Much Lately
Both of my faithful readers will by now have noticed that I’m not posting very regularly on this site. It’s not though lack of interest, and I didn’t relapse (in fact, I just celebrated my 21st sober...
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