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How to Become a Substance Abuse Counselor

After DRS examined the website, we found they provide individual and group counseling, Medication-Assisted Treatment, and other outpatient support options to help people struggling with addiction. After DRS examined the website, we found clients can access medication-assisted treatment, counseling, and social support. The program accepts Kentucky Medicaid and other Medicaid options through insurance providers. Addiction continues to be one of…

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Recognizing the Signs of Alcoholic Lung Disease

Exceeding these daily or weekly drinking limits significantly increases the risk of developing AUD and problematic health outcomes (NIAAA 2014). Also, as noted above, chronic alcohol ingestion interferes with Nrf2 signaling in alveolar macrophages (Mehta et al. 2011), thereby disrupting the expression of hundreds of genes that are crucial to combatting oxidative stress. Although the precise role of alcohol-mediated inhibition…

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Alcohol use: Weighing risks and benefits

For example, it may be used to define the risk of illness or injury based on the number of drinks a person has in a week. Rates of current drinking were highest among 15–19-year-olds in the European region (45.9%) followed by the Americas (43.9%). Total alcohol per capita consumption in the world population decreased slightly from 5.7 litres in 2010…

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Alcohol and the Brain: An Overview National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism NIAAA

Activation maps can reveal brain areas involved in a particular task, but they cannot show exactly when these areas made their respective contributions. This is because they measure hemodynamic changes (blood flow and oxygenation), indicating the neuronal activation only indirectly and with a lag of more than a second. Yet, it is important to Alcohol and Brain Overview understand the…

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No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health

Disadvantaged and vulnerable populations have higher rates of alcohol-related death and hospitalization, as harms from a given amount and pattern of drinking are higher for poorer drinkers and their families than for richer drinkers in any given society. Alcohol is a toxic, psychoactive, and dependence-producing substance and has been classified as a Group 1 carcinogen by the International Agency for…

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