Can Recovering Addicts and Alcoholics Attend Holiday Parties Safely?
09 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in Alcohol and Other Drugs, Denial, Family and Friends, Questions & Answers, Recovery, Sober Living Tags: addiction and holidays
Obviously, people in early recovery are more vulnerable than folks who have been clean and sober for several years. Newcomers have not yet replaced their old habits — developed over years of using — with newer, healthier reflexes.There is a real possibility that being in a drinking (and perhaps drugging) environment could massively trigger a desire to use. This is also possible when we are further along in recovery, but by then most people have learned to deal better with situations that might be triggers.
Nonetheless, there is no reason that we can’t attend holiday parties with relative safety, so long as we follow some simple guidelines.
Can Recovering Addicts and Alcoholics
Attend Holiday Parties Safely?
NPR has two current pieces about drinking…
27 Dec 2010 Leave a Comment
- SAMHSA.gov
…. One deals with the question of how much is too much. Personally, I don’t think it goes quite far enough with its suggested precautions. Other than that and a misinformed remark from some “expert” that you should “exercise good judgement” about when to stop drinking (that is the portion of the brain that’s affected first by alcohol), it’s a good read, with some food for thought.
Link: When Does Moderate Drinking Become A Problem?
The other segment deals with permissive parenting versus strict parenting, and how they affect the likelihood of teens drinking. The results will surprise you.
Link: Parenting Style Plays Key Role In Teen Drinking
Via the Sunrise Detox Blog
Alcohol Messes Up Kids’ Brains Way More Than Adult Brains
09 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
in Alcohol Addiction, Alcohol and Other Drugs, Denial Tags: adolescent brain alcohol, teen drinking
Alcohol Messes Up Kids’ Brains Way More Than Adult Brains – Sunrise Detox Blog
“I love smoking pot, but I think I may have a problem. I smoke it every day, and when I can’t get it, I drink…”
04 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
in 12 Steps, Alcohol and Other Drugs, Denial, Questions & Answers
Sound familiar? Read on…
Boxer Says Alcohol, Cocaine No Problem
21 Sep 2010 Leave a Comment
in Alcohol and Other Drugs, Denial, Treatment
Ricky Hatton, a British boxer currently in treatment for “depression,” denies drug addiction or alcohol abuse:
“…Hatton, whose treatment at The Priory clinic is for depression, also said: “I’m not the slightest bit worried about the cocaine. Problem? What problem?
“He said his drinking is not an issue either, after confessing to downing nearly 50 pints of Guinness a week.
“You would associate alcoholism with shorts like whisky and vodka – but I have never really had that,” the News of the World quotes him as saying.”
Turns Out No One Is Very Good At Estimating Drunkenness
04 Sep 2010 Leave a Comment
in Alcohol and Other Drugs, Denial Tags: drunk or sober?
Sloshed, trollied, hammered, plastered. We’ve done a sterling job of inventing words for the inebriated state, but when it comes to judging from their behaviour how much a person has drunk, we could do (a lot) better.
It truly is an issue of how much we’ve had to drink, not how we act. The effect of the drug on our brains is consistent, but because we can learn to act sober, we fool even ourselves.
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2010/08/how-good-are-we-at-estimating-other.html
Shel
Bill
