For the last few years, I have been taking the medicinal herb kava (sometimes called kava-kava) as a treatment for my anxiety disorder. This powerful medicinal herb has been repeatedly found to combat anxiety symptoms as effectively as some of the world’s best-known pharmaceutical drugs, often with fewer side effects. However, one major concern affects ...
A lot of people start consuming alcoholic drinks without having second thoughts about the possible negative effects it may cause their health. After all, alcoholic drinks are readily available and are generally accepted by society. However, the use of these products actually presents the major drug problem of several countries, particularly those in the West. ...
Alcohol has been used all throughout history for various things. It has been used as a stimulant, anesthetic, and it is used in social situations as well, but when does its use become a problem? According to the MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia, alcoholism is “an illness marked by drinking alcoholic beverages at a level that interferes ...
Many people usually associate alcohol with sleep and sleepiness. However, the effects of alcohol on sleep are mostly negative, and these two things should not be interrelated at all. In order to understand how these two things are related, one must explore the depths of two different topics: alcohol and sleep ( Santrock, 2005, p.252). ...
My primary function as a certified alcohol awareness trainer is to teach servers and sellers of alcohol to recognize signs of intoxication, and then to confidently intervene in situations where someone has indeed consumed too much alcohol, and now is a potential danger to themselves or others. I believe that the recognition portion of the ...
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