Alcohol Addiction

Although it can be devastating to relapse at any point in your recovery from alcoholism, this isn’t uncommon and can be dealt with. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, average relapse rates for those in recovery is 40-60%. However, an eight year study of more than 1000 addicts found that whilst the first […]

Alcoholism is devastating to your life, both physically and psychologically, whilst you are in the grips of it. However, it can also have long-term repercussions on your lifestyle, personal relationships and finances if it is not dealt with quickly. Advice from the UK’s Chief Medical Officers recommends that men and women should drink no more […]

Alcohol makes changes to the brain over time, including the slowing down of neural pathways and an overall shrinkage of the brain as a whole. But, before the brain is permanently affected, drinking heavily leads to alcohol dependence, which makes it far more difficult to stop drinking. An alcohol dependence will mean the onset of […]

Although breaking an addiction is a physical process, which requires safely removing the body’s need for a substance, the psychological process involved is also critical. If you don’t work through the complex emotional feelings associated with alcohol, the dependence will still be there when you finish your rehab, making it all too easy to fall […]

Long thought to be an issue with self control, alcoholism was classified as a disease in 1956 by the American Medical Association (AMA) who recognised that there is both a physical and psychological dependence on alcohol in those suffering from this brain disorder. The only ‘cure’ for alcoholism is total abstinence. Alcoholics can never return […]

A first step before seeking rehab treatment is to analyse your relationship with alcohol. Are you constantly drinking heavy amounts or binge drinking? Are you covering up or lying about how much you drink to friends and family? Have you ever turned up to work badly hungover or repeatedly drunk? Do you rely on alcohol […]

There is no straightforward answer to the question of does alcohol abuse affect your weight. This is because not everyone who abuses alcohol is overweight. However, there are links between drinking alcohol and putting on weight -some links are direct and some indirect. Alcohol causes you to put more weight on simply because it has […]

Drinking alcohol is one of the world’s favourite pastimes, and with good reason. Drinking alcohol is ingrained as a cultural activity, as it has been for thousands of years. Even in ancient Egypt, drinking alcohol was a common activity during social calls. Even in many religions scriptures alcohol plays a big part. Alcohol has a […]

Many people know that consuming alcohol is unhealthy for you. However, it is also true that small doses alcohol could have some positive effects on the human body. A study from PLOS Medicine claims that light drinking could still lead to a risk of cancer of course – yet the risks are lower compared to […]

In this blog post, we present an infographic that weighs up recent studies that say drinking moderate amounts of alcohol could increase the risk of getting breast cancer. Almost unbelievably, just over one in ten women will suffer from breast cancer in their lifetimes. Recent studies say these risks are increased in proportion to the […]

Are you concerned about the amount of alcohol your loved one is drinking? Perhaps your loved one is drinking in the morning. You might even begin to smell alcohol on your partner when he or she returns home from work. Another classic sign that your loved one is drinking too much is when he or […]