Who hasn’t struggled to get to sleep? You lay in bed tossing and turning and trying not to look at the clock, because you know that will only cause you to count the shrinking number of hours until the alarm goes off. Lack of sleep can lead to desperation, and desperate times call for desperate
Keep ReadingYou want to have a few drinks with friends, but you’re watching your calories, so you opt for a diet mixer. It seems like the smart option, right? Wrong — at least if you’re worried about your blood alcohol level. A new study shows that if you and a friend drink the same amount of
Keep ReadingIt’s easy to have firm ideas about how much you’ll drink, but, as the hours pass, your judgment becomes impaired by alcohol. You may lose track of just how much you’ve had. Enter: alcohol-monitoring ice cubes. An MIT graduate student, Dhairya Dand, created the new tool after he wound up in the hospital after binge
Keep ReadingIf you are in recovery and start to feel like you are beyond relapse, this story is for you. It’s a cautionary tale that shows that everyone is vulnerable – even treatment professionals. It is important to start each day with a renewed commitment to sobriety and the choices that make it possible over the
Keep ReadingWhen you don’t want to gain weight, you make sure there aren’t extra sweets in the house. But what if you want to avoid drinking too much? Do you make sure you don’t live close to any bars or pubs? Most of us don’t go to that extreme, but a new study suggests a person’s
Keep ReadingA recent incident at the University of Tennessee has driven home the ongoing dangers of college drinking and alcohol poisoning. A student was admitted to the University of Tennessee Medical Center in late September after he arrived at the hospital unconscious and with a blood-alcohol content of .45 — five times the legal limit. After
Keep ReadingAll addictions are not created equal, which is why someone who is mixing alcohol with other drugs faces different dangers than someone who abuses alcohol or drugs alone. Because of this, it’s important for individuals to disclose these simultaneous addictions when arriving at treatment so that treatment professionals can be aware and structure the individual’s
Keep ReadingAs teens head back to school, it’s a good time to remind parents to be aware of trends in drug and alcohol abuse among students – even when it comes to the misuse of legal drugs. Mixing substances is also a dangerous practice that high school and college kids are doing without always being aware
Keep ReadingCollege is a time of experimentation, but there are some things you don’t need to try for yourself to know they’re dangerous. As parents drop their kids off at the dorms this fall, they need to be aware of a new trend that could put them at risk. Mixing energy drinks and alcohol – both
Keep ReadingTechnology is amazing. It has brought us computers, smart phones and voice recognition software. It makes our lives easier, more enjoyable and even safer. Now, researchers hope it can stop drunk driving, too. Despite all the public service announcements, the police checkpoints and the threat of arrest, drunk driving continues to be involved in one-third
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