Posts Tagged ‘health’
Saturday, September 4th, 2010
Alcohol Affects Women More Adversely Than Men
Women process alcohol differently from men.
who are alcoholics or who even occasionally drink too much alcohol face considerably greater health risks than men who drink the same amounts. Women who drink will get drunk faster than men and become addicted more quickly to alcohol than do men. Even though [...]
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Sunday, October 18th, 2009
Approximately six weeks ago I heard about a twenty-one-year-old lady named Rachael who is bipolar and who is also dependent on drugs and alcohol.
I remember hearing that in such situations, an individual needs to get treatment for both medical conditions and that mental health difficulties and addiction frequently occur in the same person. [...]
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
Morphine is a highly potent opiate it acts directly on the nervous system to help relieve pain. For the management of intense pain, there is no other narcotic analgesic that is more effective.
Morphine is highly addictive when compared to other medications, so tolerance and psychological dependencies develop very quickly.
Research has also shown that [...]
Tags: addiction, adverse, body, dependence, drug, effects, health, morphine, narcotic, rehab, withdrawal symptoms
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