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Thank you Jason. Sugar alcohols are sweeteners and, in spite of their name, do not contain any ethanol. Recovering alcoholics have nothing to worry about with sugar alcohols--they are not what we tend
You Ask, I Answer: Sugar Alcohols by Andy B. Healthy Living Professional If a food product is sugar free but lists 8-15 grams of sugar alcohols, should I just avoid it? What is a sugar alcohol, anyway? – Jessica Rothschild Queens, NY Sugar alcohols...
Well-Known Molecule May be Behind Alcohol’s Benefits to Heart Health by Ed H. Doctor of Pharmacy , may be behind alcohol’s protective effects. Down the road, this finding could help scientists create a new treatment for heart disease that mimics the beneficial influence of modest alcohol consumption. “Any...
Is Alcohol Abuse Alcoholism? by Lisa Frederiksen Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven also changes the brain — alcohol abuse causes chemical and structural changes in the brain... to both alcoholics and alcohol abusers; and to avoid the chemical and structural changes in the brain that occur...
Secondhanding Drinking – Understand, Treat and/or Prevent It and We Can Reduce Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholism and Underage Drin by Lisa Frederiksen Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven points — alcohol abuse, early use, mental illness, childhood trauma, social environment and genetics... of alcoholism and the condition of alcohol abuse. They are called risk factors. Many of them are the result...
Alcohol May Have Ruined My Heart. How Much Do You Drink?March 4, 2008 by Bob Aronson Patient Expert ’t use alcohol or drugs). Back to the motivation.  Hazelden Foundation, one of the premier chemical dependency... Let us start this blog with a fact.  I, Bob Aronson, am an alcoholic.   I was treated...
5 Ways to Reduce Your Chemical Exposure Before You Even Think About Getting Pregnant by Starre V. Patient Expert -to-be avoid smoking and alcohol without hesitation, as both butts and booze have long been widely accepted... list of other toxic chemicals lurking in their homes and daily beauty routine at this very moment– which could harm...
It's Time to Reform Our Toxic Chemical Laws. by Stephen Tvedten Patient Expert understood to be a problem. This includes the class of chemicals that are known to persist in the environment... requirements and new scientific review. They want to review the chemicals on a use-by-use basis, ignoring real...
CHEMICALS AND DISEASE CONDITIONS by Stephen Tvedten Patient Expert , over 80,000 chemicals have been developed and used. Many are pesticides that degrade soils and contaminate...CHEMICALS AND DISEASE CONDITIONS - Beldeu Singh For the environmentally aware, there is no need...
The Complexity of Depression: FSU's study on the media and "chemical imbalance" by Marty Patient Expert University, a review of the media's presentation of depression as a result of a "chemical imbalance... is caused by a chemical imbalance. Some of the writings blame the media for publishing news articles as fact...

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Go Red! Or is it Go White? Alcohol and Cholesterol
.   Several studies have now confirmed that drinking a moderate amount of alcohol (ethanol) decreases the risk of heart disease, heart attack, and stroke.  There are several mechanisms to the health benefits of alcohol...).  If this sounds familiar, it should since I mentioned it in a blog last month.  A new class of synthetic drugs...crap

Living With[out] Crystal Meth
Alter the chemical make-up of ephedrine, add just the right amount of drain cleaner... back into alcohol, which had been my first drug of choice. How did I get to that point, and why wasn... of my inner addict-the obsession to use, and the compulsion to use more. After I took that first drug or drink...crap

Living With Crystal Meth
Alter the chemical make-up of ephedrine, add just the right amount of drain cleaner... that I belonged -- somewhere, anywhere. Add to that the drive of my inner addict -- the obsession to use... I chose the escape route of alcohol and drugs when my former partner was diagnosed with cancer. Maybe...crap

Alcohol Use Before Sex and HIV Risk: Situational Characteristics of Protected and Unprotected Encounters Among High-Risk African Women
interactions between alcohol use before sex and condom use, "suggesting that drinking before sex... encounters that involved alcohol use two hours prior with ones that did not. The data were collected... to occur if only the woman had been drinking before sex (OR, 14.05; 95 percent CI, 4.03-50.41). Alcohol...crap

The Legacy of Alcohol Addiction: The children left behind
  I originally wrote the following article for a chemical dependency newsletter for people who are Adult Children of Alcoholics.  It was an emotionally difficult piece for me to write.  I do hope that my writing will help anyone who either suffers from alcohol addiction or...crap

A brief guide to Serotonin
A few years ago, if I mentioned serotonin to a class of 18 year olds, I would have been met..., I thought it might be useful to post a few lines about serotonin and its role in depression.... Serotonin is actually one of three important chemicals called neurotransmitters...crap

X-Factors
unnoticed until after they are in widespread use. The class of drugs known as protease inhibitors (PIs... Compounds become useful drugs only if their beneficial qualities far outweigh any harmful or... that some of the unusual side effects associated with PI use, such as lipid abnormalities and insulin resistance...crap

Ten Signs that You May Be Involved in an Emotionally Abusive Relationship
.  Everything has a reason and none of these reasons include him being responsible for himself.    4.  Alcohol and drug use:  All abusers do not use drugs or alcohol but a lot do.  My boyfriend was addicted to drugs... When I was fifteen years old I met my first boyfriend.  He was the class clown...crap

Counseling Chemically Dependent People with HIV Illness
to intravenous drug use. Newmeyer notes that substance use increases an individual's vulnerability to HIV... during a drunken or stoned sexualencounter. Thirdly, a number of substances, such as alcohol, cannabis, "speed... of working with individualswho have a dual diagnosis of chemical dependency and AIDS, including: locating...crap

Breast Cancer: My Personal Journey Away from the Pink Ribbon
as many of chemicals that were entering my body as I had control over.    My first attempt at reducing chemicals... with high price tags at the health food store didn't rate any better for potential cancerous chemicals....  I spent many years frustrated by my options. However, my belief in clearing the body of as many chemicals...crap