Alcoholism Addiction Treatment

particularly the withdrawal stages. I know of valium but have heard there is something newer that actual reduces withdrawal symptoms

Asked by:enigma

Mr. Murdock, a 64-year-old male, was brought to the emergency room in an inebriated state after being found lying in the street. He was markedly pales and undernourished with jaundice of the conjunctiva and skin. His lab results showed that he was profoundly anemic with elevated liver enzymes and low albumin, and suffering from a folate deficiency. When the patient became articulate after a few days, he reported heavy alcohol drinking for several years, consuming at least a pint of whiskey daily on intermittent binges. During these times, his food intake was reduced and limited to bread and occasionally chicken, but no fresh vegetables and rarely red meat or fish.

1.What symptoms of folate deficiency did Mr. Murdock exhibit?
2.How did his alcohol addiction contribute to the folate deficiency?
3.What other groups of individuals are at higher risk for folate deficiency? Why?
4.What are the best food sources of folate?

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Not all Americans but some Americans. Perhaps most of them…

1. They make fun of you when you make a grammar mistake. How many Americans can speak a foreign language?

2. They think Muslims are terrorist because they know there are some Muslim terrorists. Which country use violence most in their movies, tv shows, video games? In which country things like ‘a teenager kills his teachers and classmates’ most? In which country you can buy guns at the supermarkets?

3. They are being ****** against everyone. Isn’t America an immigration country? Aren’t you less American than a Native American?

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I have a friend who happens to be addicted to alcohol. Since she stopped drinking two days ago, she has been experiencing what I think are withdrawal symptoms. She’s having a hard time sleeping, and when she does get to sleep, she experiences bad dreams. She’s also nauseous a lot of times, and her hands get clammy. I’ve already told her to seek medical help, but she’s stubborn and doesn’t want to. Will this go away?

Asked by:clare i

I have just recently learned that my bestfriend, who moved there just last year, is now very much dependent upon alcohol. We have been keeping in touch with each other and there have been times that she did seem to be drunk as we talked over the phone. Yesterday, though, she admitted to me that she experiences withdrawal symptoms after a few hours of not drinking. I asked her if she wants this to continue on and she says no, that she’s ready to get herself treated. So now I’m here, many miles away, wanting to find a treatment center for her.

Asked by:alani ts

There’s a doll manufactured in Spain called Bebe Gloton (gluttonous baby) that’s a breastfeeding doll. It comes with a bra-like halter top for the girl to wear that has flowers where her ******* are. The baby ***** at (on? the article was unclear) the “nipples” and then cries to be burped. After reading an article about it, I googled it and found more articles. There are opinions both for and against it. At first, I was against it, then for it, then against it again, haha. I am a supporter of breastfeeding (and have breastfed both my kids ’til a year and plan to do so with all my babies), but something about this doll doesn’t seem appropriate. Reading articles against it, people were quoted as saying, “What’s next? Dolls with alcohol addiction or erectile dysfunction?”, based on the fact that breastfeeding is an adult thing, just like alcoholism and ED. But then I thought, those are bad things and breastfeeding is not. A supporter of the doll also pointed out that many children in families that breastfeed pretend to breastfeed their dolls on their own, anyway and that baby dolls that come with a bottle show only the “artificial” way to feed a baby. Some opponents argued that a breastfeeding doll promotes motherhood in a playful light and may lead to teen pregnancy, but then the other side came back with the fact that all baby dolls do that, by letting girls play by changing diapers, pushing strollers, etc. But what finally led me back to being against the doll was thinking that if some company came out with a toy “pillow” that girls strapped to their tummies pretending to be pregnant, I wouldn’t allow my kids to have that, either, even though pregnancy is a wonderful thing and in no way bad. HOWEVER (haha, this is getting long-winded….sorry!) I would have no objections to my daughters pretending to breastfeed a doll they already have, or even putting a couch pillow under their shirts. I guess I just don’t want some company telling my child how to play. Thoughts?

Asked by:fawnberrie

I’m sorry that this post is so long, but I needed to tell this story to someone.

My father was a great sportsman who had worked hard throughout his whole life to support my mom and me. He worked from 8 am to 11 pm 6 times a week at a grueling job just to make sure that we could have food, clothing, and a shelter.
I could remember the day that he took his own life as if it happened yesterday. It was a cold evening on January 23rd 2006. My father had a beer or two during the day, since it was his day off. I remember returning from 7th grade, heading on to the computer and in a few hours starting my homework. My father called me into the living room to ask me if I wanted to go out with him and get some air. I told him that I couldn’t since I was doing my homework and that my mom wouldn’t let him go out if he was drunk.(He had an alcohol addiction for a long time now). I would’ve never known that that’d be the last conversation I’d have with him. I went back to do my homework, about 30 minutes later I heard my father going into the bathroom. About 5 minutes following that I had heard a strange sound, as if something had broke. I wasn’t sure what it was but I just ignored it. After awhile my father was not heading out of the bathroom, so I grew suspicious. I told my mom and she said I should go check it out by myself, for some reason I didn’t want to go alone so I asked her to come with me. We entered the bathroom and it looked completly empty, which surprised me for a bit. Than we moved the shower curtain and I saw something that seemed to manifest from an unimaginable nightmare. My father had a wire wrapped around his neck and he was hanging from the shower. His body was limp, pale, with a yellowish sickening hue. I stood there shocked as if I just saw a horrible dream and was waiting to wake up. My mom had let out a scream, yelling out my fathers name. We brought him down and she tried to do CPR and the Heimleich manuever to revive him. I ran out of the bathroom hearing my mothers screams to call 911. I called them in a surprisingly calm voice I said: “My father hung himself, we need help”. I ran out of the apartment just trying to get away from it all, not knowing what to do. I ran to my mom’s aunts apartment who was living on the same floor of our apartment. My mom’s aunt, her son(who’s in his 30′s) and her husband all came to help my mom. I ran down to help the ambulance guys get upstairs(we lived on the 5th floor). A few cars pulled up including a police car and an ambulance. I helped them come upto the apartment. My mom’s aunt and the ambulance guys had brought my mom into the kitchen so she wouldn’t interfer in the way of trying to rescue my father and since it’d do more harm than good with her being next to him. I went into the kitchen and held her saying that it’ll all be okay, and that they’re rescuing him as we spoke. I saw them carrying my father on a stretcher outside of the apartment, and I held my mom so that she wouldn’t interfer with the ambulance workers. We had than been asked some questions by a detective I guess to get our alibi. My mom’s aunt drove us to the ER at a local hospital. They wouldn’t let us into the operating room so we had to stay in a waiting room. That whole time my mom was crying, while I just sat there holding her. I didn’t shed a single tear thus far. Eventually a few doctors came into the room and my mom looked at them with hopeful eyes, their next words broke her heart and killed a little bit inside of me. “Sorry, he didn’t make it.” My mom let out a defeated cry and I held her tightly. Eventually we went to stay at my mom’s aunts apartment without seeing my fathers body that night. Neither of us could sleep that night and the water had tasted very bitter that night. I had not let out a single tear even during his funeral, since everything still felt like an unreal dream.
Fast forward a little bit. My mom had went through the whole grieving cycle and seemed to be fairly fine. In about 8-10 months she got a boyfriend. However, the same hadn’t occured for me. I became much more anti-social desiring to be in a quiet undisturbed place at all times. I didn’t want to talk to anyone, I didn’t want to see anyone and I didn’t want to go anywhere. Whenever I did have to go somewhere I’d put on a mask acting like my old self. I did the same thing with my mom. If you were to meet me you’d think I was a normal, fairly quiet teenager. However I had contemplated ******* many times, thinking it over hundreds of times in my head. The only thing that stopped me was the pain it would cause my mom. I became emotionless pretty much, I never felt happiness, joy, sorrow, anything. I gave up on religion and I stopped seeing humans as humans. I saw humans as just objects. In fact I’ve considered killing many times, but the possibility of a higher power existing or being caught and receiving a life sentence always stopped me. Now I’m completely depersonalized, and suffering from full b

Asked by:slayer485

I keep hearing people say that alcohol and or drug addiction is a disease but that seems to be stretching the definition just a bit. Even if you are addicted and have a dependence on a drug, you’re still making the decision to keep doing it.

Lets say you sit down at a table with a ***** addict. You take out a couple pieces of ***** and put them on the table in front of him. Then you take out a gun and tell him that if he touches the crack, you’ll kill him. No matter how bad of an addict he is, he won’t reach out and grab the ***** because he knows that if he makes that choice he’ll die before he even gets the drug into his system.

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The Drugs are (As said in the title); Alcohol, Tobacco, Solvents and Smoking.

I’ve been researching lately, done most questions but still need help on these:

1) The effects that the drugs would have on a person’s lifestyle

2) Scientific facts about the drugs

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15 every 2-3 days…

we have cut his bank card were closing his bank account we took away his car from him im in control of all finances now, and we took his cell phone away from him, and im going to give random drug testing..

is there anything else you would reccomend? i guess i’m wondering about no alcohol.. etc..

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