Smoking Cessation’s Effects on Alcoholism Treatment
Tobacco use is a fairly common activity in the U.S. and across the world, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that close to 20 percent of all American adults smoke cigarettes. However, compared to the rest of the adult population, smoking is much more prevalent in active alcoholics and other alcohol abusers, [...]
The Link Between Debt and Substance Abuse
Debt, depression and substance abuse are a dangerous trio. People in the midst of active addiction are often maxed out financially. Driven by changes in the brain caused by drugs, they have spent all of their own money and much of their friends’ and family’s money on drugs. They’ve lost jobs, ignored bills, taken out [...]
Effects of PCP Use During Pregnancy
PCP is the common abbreviation for a drug called phencyclidine, which produces both hallucinogenic and anesthetic effects inside human beings. When pregnant women use PCP, it enters their developing fetuses by passing through the organ-like placenta inside the uterus. Current evidence indicates that the drug can potentially produce unwanted changes in the outcome of a [...]
Alcohol and Marital Aggression: What Are the Risk Factors?
Drinking affects different people in different ways. Some people might be described as happy drunks, showing affection and appreciation for everyone while drinking. Others get sad and reflective when they drink, and maybe even cry. Perhaps the worst kind of drunk is the angry one. People who get angry at others when they drink alcohol [...]
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