18th March 2020: Professor Paul Haber Treating alcohol problems in 2020.
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How Much Alcohol is Too Much?
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What We Get Wrong About “Alcoholism”
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Suicide Risk Screening Training: How to Manage Patients at Risk for Suicide
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Benefits and Risks of Alcohol Use in Adults and a Review of Unhealthy Drinking in Older Adults
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The effects of alcohol & how much alcohol is safe to consume
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Does Safe Alcohol Use Exist? Aurelijus Veryga at TEDxVilnius
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A new study suggests staying within alcohol consumption guidelines could still be problematic for health; Just a few drinks can bring short-term, negative effects on the body that should be kept in mind; When adjusting consumption levels, experts recommend thinking about the reasons you drink, in.Alcohol screening and brief counseling is an approach based on the best available scientific evidence that can help adults who drink alcohol at risky levels to reduce the amount that they drink. In the United States, risky alcohol use resulted in more than $249 billion in economic costs in 2010 and over 88,000 deaths every year from 2006-2010.
Risky alcohol use includes binge drinking, heavy drinking, and any use.Overall, the various risks associated with alcohol use at various levels can be combined to derive low-risk drinking guidelines. Such analyses found that overall, any increase in drinking beyond one standard drink on average per day is associated with an increased net risk for morbidity and mortality in high-income countries ( Rehm et al. 2009 ).
She said that at one drink a day, a person’s risk of developing one of the 23 conditions associated with alcohol increases by 0.5 percent — “a small increase in risk,” as she put it.At-risk alcohol use means you drink more than recommended daily or weekly limits. For men 21 to 64 years, the limit is 4 drinks in a day or 14 in a week.
For women and for men 65 or older, it is 3 drinks in a day or 7 in a week. A drink is 12 ounces of beer, 5 ounces of wine, or 1½ ounces of liquor.Although researchers recognise alcohol use as a leading risk factor for premature death and disability, some evidence suggests that low intake might have a protective effect on specific conditions such as ischaemic heart disease and diabetes.
Monitoring of consumption behaviour is required to analyse the health effects of alcohol use.Introduction. Extensive epidemiologic data have linked alcohol consumption to risk of breast cancer (reviewed in [1-5]).The overall estimated association is an approximate 30-50% increase in breast cancer risk from 15-30 grams/day of alcohol consumption (about 1-2 drinks/day) [6-8•].Given the level of alcohol consumption in the U.S. population, modifying this behavior could have a large.Alcohol consumption is associated with a variety of shortand long-term health risks, including motor vehicle crashes, violence, sexual risk behaviors, high blood pressure, and various cancers (e.g., breast cancer).
1 The risk of these harms increases with the amount of alcohol you drink.Epidemiologic research shows that people who use both alcohol and tobacco have much greater risks of developing cancers of the oral cavity, pharynx (throat), larynx, and esophagus than people who use either alcohol or tobacco alone.There is an association between drinking alcohol and developing breast cancer. Studies demonstrate that women who consume about 1 drink per day have a 5 to 9 percent higher chance of developing breast cancer than women who do not drink at all. 11–13 That risk increases.
In the randomized trials included in the meta-analysis, consumption of 30 grams of alcohol raised triglyceride levels by an estimated 5.7 percent, which translates into a 4.6 percent increase in coronary heart disease (Stampfer et al. 1996).U.S. drinking guidelines are too boozy, according to a new study. The research, which analyzed data from nearly 600,000 people in 19 countrie.
While the study shows that the increased risk of alcohol-related harm in younger people who have one drink a day is small (0.5%), it goes up incrementally with.Disulfiram produces physical reactions (e.g., flushing) if alcohol is taken within 12–24 hours of the medication use and is not generally used as a first-line treatment. Topiramate and gabapentin are also suggested as medications for patients with moderate to severe alcohol use disorder, but typically after trying naltrexone and acamprosate.
Kunzmann AT, et al. The association of lifetime alcohol use with mortality and cancer risk in older adults: A cohort study. PLOS Medicine. 2018; doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002585. Vos T, et al.
Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016.
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113 comments
Just over 2 years sober. I’ve had to face a lot of ugly crap about myself and make honest assessments and act on them wisely.
What is really odd to me now is all the people around me who no longer drink, but get high as balls on weed. The excuse is that it’s “natural” and it is used in treating (insert whatever disease here) and not one of my pothead friends will acknowledge that they have NONE of those diseases! It’s just another form of escapism and self medicating. I freaking HATE our culture now…people either smoke, talk about, buy or spend hours on the web looking at pot related stuff. They don’t even realize how much of their life is consumed by pot…..but, hey.at least they aren’t getting drunk anymore, right?? (eye roll)
I am a former pothead. I quit using it years ago when I figured out how much of my time, energy and creativity were wasted on that crap. I know this is where the high functioning pothead who works in upper management of some corporation is going to tear into about how he or she gets high 3 times a day and it doesn’t affect their life. Fine, but that is a exception. The majority of the burners out there barely get through life because they are throwing it away.
If your looking for a good way to quit drinking without cravings, the book Easyway to quit drinking by Alan Carr is great.
I consume 14 units every week day and last weekend i consumed 138 units in 2 days.
Yes, 138 UK units in 2 days. How unsafe is this?
I have Anxiety disorder, ADHD, and autism, I did not choose these disorders/mental illnesses. You choose to drink. It’s not mental illness, it is substance abuse. It may be a symptom of underlining mental health issues, but alcoholism is an addiction, and it’s not like opiod or xannax addiction where you could be given too high of a dosage, or put on too long and can become addicted because of someone ELSES irresponsibility. It’s YOU’RE responsibility if your alcohol consumption is out of hand. If depression or anxiety cause you to drink heavily, you should seek help for that in order to fix your drinking problem, if it’s from trauma, you should seek help for that. If you partied too hard in college and became physically addicted to alcohol, that is your fault and your responsibility to fix. Alcohol is a lot more dangerous of a substance than people think, so they aren’t cautious or responsible with it and end up with the consequences of irresponsible drinking. Limit yourself to how much you drink, don’t get to the point you physically need to drink, if you are at that point, go to the hospital, if you have issues that cause you to drink, try to seek help for those issues. If you’re scared of alcoholism, don’t drink, if you understand the risk and are content with it, drink responsibly and if you feel at any point you’re drinking even a little too much, stop.
What people do not understand is that alcohol was made illegal for a reason. America was facing a gigantic alcoholism epidemic, do you understand that Alcoholism was literally destroying America.
Alcohol Use Disorder? Use disorder? It’s a choice and not a disease or disorder.
And unlike most other addictive drugs, long term alcohol use causes changes in the body meaning that sudden complete withdrawl is nearly always fatal.
Maybe one day we will know if psilocybin is effective against AUD.
Honestly AA has done more harm than good.
It’s not “a disease”. Its a physically and psychologically addictive substance.
Alcohol is perfectly safe as a disinfectant or cleaner. Not at all safe for human consumption though.
Hi to all the people in health class watching this last minute
I cant understand why alcohol is still legal?
Its because govrement get profit?
CBT works well. I’m quitting cold turkey because of this therapy.
Mindfulness is key,I can say no.
wonderful talk! ‘we are pushed to believe it is safe to drink’ the video shows why it’s abolutely not.
‘we are free to choose of course but we must have the information.’
If alcohol was discovered today it would unquestionably be illegal. There are few drugs as destructive for the self and society than alcohol.
If alcohol weren’t available at all, would alcoholics become addicted to something else?
I drink 500 ml of whiskey per day. That is half a litre of whiskey per day.
The proof is the people who go every day and stay clean. Silly.
This was excellent!! Finally hearing this after watching literally hundreds of videos on this topic.
I can’t believe the standards are so low to define what an alcoholic is. If you have a couple shots a day YOU ARE NOT AN ALCOHOLIC lmao. Drinking 3 fifths of vodka is called being an alcoholic
Surprised to see no reference at all to treatment with niacin, which used to be effective in a third of cases, and helpful in a another third
Almost ten years ago, at my older brother’s marriage, my dad got so drunk he couldn’t walk or talk properly. He was showing his first signs of alcoholism. As a 12 year old kid, I cried because I couldn’t stand seeing him like that. On that day, my mom quit drinking. My dad, on the other hand, kept doing it, and became an alcoholic, which he still is to this day.
10 years later, I live in another state, far from them, and I find myself drinking almost every single day, craving for alcohol. I don’t know what or how it happened and I don’t know what I’m gonna do about it.
boring… i’m not getting alive out of this anyway, might as well drink in the meantime.
I am wanting to attract more love and spirituality into my life and I know those things are not in alcohol
While drinking alcohol, does my body absorb 100% of the alcohol I consume? Do I urinate any alcohol? Is there an optimal % I should drink for my body type? Please help me. Asking for a friend.
Great information. There is no safe limit for alcohol consumption. Science in the last 50 years has gradually pointed to the correct answer: the body was not designed to be fed alcohol in any quantity
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it has to be a personal experience/decision. i have a 95 yr old uncle. he drank beers with an occasional shot of booze every day. he still enjoys a few beers at our family gatherings. should he have not drank alcohol at all during his life? his wife drank and lived to be 90.
Not all the non-drinker have underlined health issues. Drinking regularly is also not a norm for many societies. This is a bias study not account for cultural differences.
this guy ain’t a doctor. He’s spouting stereotypes from the 1800’s
This was great, thanks, I’ve been looking for “what happens when you stop drinking for 4 days” for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you ever come across Baanubrey Illustrious Breakthrough (do a search on google )?
It is a great exclusive product for discovering how to quit drinking minus the normal expense. Ive heard some incredible things about it and my co-worker got excellent success with it.
sir I am from India I would like to request you to talk slowly so that the people aroud the world who are not English they can understand the pronounsation if you will talk like this before them every thing will go above their head
I understand that most of these TEDs are intentionally light on statistics, but it would have been useful to go into, at least briefly, the incidence of the 16 diseases that alcohol may promote. If they are naturally low, a 10% increase is relatively insignificant, if high, that same 10% is far more worrisome.
12pints of guinness a night big bag o fish n chips.2 cans of fanta.thats d life.
If I buy a big bag of chips I tend to eat them all. Alcohol became no different for me, except I’d black out at a high enough BAC.
The scam is that the bigger bags of chips and boxes of beers are cheaper per unit. You think you’ll save for later. It hardly ever works without discipline. Alcohol impairs judgment and discipline. Plus tomorrow that bag or box is there and you don’t have to get another at the store.
The problem with 12 step programmes is that they sell themselves as the way to deal with an addiction which can lead people to mistakenly believing that if it doesn’t work for them the failure is their fault. While the truth is that the method is only going to work for certain people. What research there is shows those programmes’ success rate is no better than for people attempting to quit without assistance. Same goes for in-patient rehabilitation. Also aiming for abstinence is actually itself a questionable goal to apply to all people.
What we continue to get wrong about alcohol is separating it from other drugs. The social acceptability of alcoholism kills a lot of people. It’s just as bad of a drug as cocaine and heroin and in fact is one of the only drugs besides benzodiazepines that withdrawal can kill you. But they make so much money by supporting legal dependency they tend to separate it from other substances. You don’t see the super bowl brought to you by Mexican Cartel Methamphetamine, but you might as well. There’s no such thing as alcoholism or alcoholics. It’s addiction. Plain and simple.
So how do we talk to our doctor without getting flagged for dependency, which can absolutely keep you from getting prescribed serious pain meds if you ever actually need them..
You left off a serious symptom of AUD……..smashing fat chicks
If I didn’t drink I’d never manage to muster the courage to slap my wife around or drive my ugly kids to school in my embarrassing old car.
What we get wrong about addiction….really pisses people off and will likely never be accepted by systems that take money from pill pushers, functional addicts, and biased active observers.
I drink 650ml beer of 8% alcohol per week..
How much danger is this?
wen the doctors don;t,or refuse to give me pain medication wen i have no choice i drink alcohol, and on the other hand people that don’t need pain med;s get it that gets me piss;t off. i dont even go to the hospital no more for pain i go to the L C B O i live in Canada and that piss,s me off.i can go get methadone like right now but i don;t because it is more addicting then most pain med’s i feel like i am in a trap.
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at 9:35 ish amazing information!!! light bulb moment!!!! recently in California at CVS they stopped selling cigarettes. I hope that one day soon alcohol will follow the same fate. I can only start with myself. Love living alcohol free.
It causes anxiety / panic attacks for me occational, like every 3 or 4 days when I binge drinking on holidays.
Also, shivering and hyper thermia.
I always go to hospital in that phase, and they would injection �� valium into my vain.
You forgot to mention how it damages the brain and it’s relative functions.
I basically resorted to self imposed solitary confinement but am sure glad I quit. Life has been such a struggle since but the empowerment of sobriety is a confidence boost. Intertwining the biochemistry of alcohol with cultural pressures makes this TEDx Talk quite worthy.
My name is Cody and i am an alcoholic. I dont get hangovers. I drink every night. I do vodka shots with a chaser cause its cheap. I drink a half a bottle a night. Im 26. I got my OWI 4 months ago. The only time i get hangovers is when i dont skip any days for 7 days give or take. Last time i took my shot was at 3AM and its 5:45pm right now. Last two days i had a mild hangover but drinking took it away. But today i will not be drinking. I have a horrible hangover. I dont wanna drink tonight and i tell my self im done for good but i dont believe myself. Im sitting in my bathrook floor by toilet. I have blood in my puke. Not the first time this has happend. Im not looking for attention just wanna tell my story i guess.
This video doesn’t really do AA much justice, this treatment deserves a lot more credit. Which ever way you want to look at it, AA has all the right ingredients. A safe non judgmental space to recover around other addicts just like yourself and not just addicts that are in early sobriety like the type you’ll meet in rehab. You’ll be networking with recovering alcoholics that have many years of solid sobriety under their belt and who’s Mission in order to keep themselves sober is to help other addicts…the 12 steps will help clear all that guilt and shame and clutter that you’ve created throughout your addiction plus any other issues you’ve had and then teach you how to maintain that mind and keep it clutter free….
Bah. I have drank 1/2 to 1 gallon of whiskey, tequila, rum, or vodka every week since the mid 1990’s. I have never gone to work drunk, nor missed a day of work due to being drunk. I even rarely become drunk on any given day. This video just reminded me to go fix a drink.
Alcohol Was But Just a Symptom of Are Disease! The “IST” Precedes The “ISM”……….. To See, To KNOW!
The world health orginisation after extensive research has graded ALCOHOL as a *grade 1 Carcinogen*.. This places it in the same place as Neutron Radiation, Hepatitis B & C. ALCOHOL is nothing but poison and that is a fact! Grape juice is good for you, alcohol free beer is good for you, ALCOHOL is not.
Drunks like their perversion and refuse to get themselves under control.
Banning things is never the answer. Good ideas should be able to be implemented voluntarily. ��
Additionally, alcohol is a neurotoxin, carcinogen and is very addictive. Many people do not understand women can only have one drink (one 12oz beer/5 oz wine) and men two drinks daily….The very best way to stay healthy is through good nutrition, regular exercise or inherited great genes from your parents.
I’m dreading the annual review with my gp when they ask what I drink and I say most days I drink the weekly limit! I take a double dose of milk thistle and 4 strong cups of organic coffee each day too but I think I will be scolded anyway.
As a recovering alcoholic of the “old school” it worries me when I see drugs suggested for treatment. It was good to know the chemical reactions they cause and why they work, but drugs will not keep you sober. You notice that all of the studies say things like “how long until they drink again” or “only binge drink half as much as they used to”. An alcoholic can only recover if they WANT to, although they may not know that they want to, all they know is that their life is falling apart and it has become unbearable to the point that they are willing to try ANYTHING that will stop the mental and emotional pain. I didn’t get sober until I was 35. For 20 years I drank and drugged myself into oblivion while my body disintegrated. Getting sober is the hardest thing I have ever done as it is for any alcoholic that tries it. You basically have to give up everything you thought about they world and about yourself and and have faith in some stranger who assures you that if you follow their directions it will all be worth it. This means NOT DRINKING AT ALL. Not one drop EVER. I was in pretty bad shape mentally by then but finding out that i had 3 serious actual psycological conditions and got treatment for those too. (I continue those treatments today). It took almost a year before I was clear-minded enough to make plans for the future. I went back to school (having only a 9th-grade education I enrolled in college alcoholics are all-or-nothing people!), got my Associates in Science degree and worked as an emergency and operating room X-ray tech for the next 25 years. Fourteen years ago I moved out of Boston and became a walking tour guide in the French Quarter of New Orleans. (Long story). I just retired at the end of June due to physical disabilities, but I’m 66 now so I figure I earned it. Clean and sober if still a bit crazy (wink) and life is good. P.S. The stats suck. Only about 8% of people make it all the way to sobriety, but you can’t succeed if you don’t try so if you are fighting this disease don’t give up.
The WHO? Almost halfway through 2020 and all this mess could have been prevented. Otherwise decent video.
Im trying to recover from LTDD.
(Listening To Doctors Disorder)
Doctors just make more classes so they can put their claws in them, Sickness Maintenance Organization s.
So if we listen to all these doctors, we will not die???
All must die. Live happy. I never saw a happy doctor.
Facts:
alcoholism is hereditary
early intervention is critical
-alchoholism is usually a sign of another condition (usually bi polar/ADHD)
-can be treated with medicine with great degree of sucess.
My own story condensed: I was a functioning alcoholic. When I was diagnosed with adult ADHD and subsequently put on 40mg Vyvanse, my alcohol cravings literally disappeared. I was amazed! I asked my therapist why; she told me alcoholism is the minds way of ‘self medicating and satisfying the minds need for dopamine’ thusly the amphetamine in Vyvanse replaces the need.
YES SAFE ALCOHOL USE IS DOABLE!! However, I aint able to do it nor want just a little/ safe/ moderate amount.. To me, there is no point to drink moderately.. Party is on!!. After 35 years drinking/ jail/ OWI’s/ Divorces/ Rehab-rehab’S, my choice to quit 20 beers and 1 bottle of Jack EVERY DAY for years and successfully maintaining employment at the same employer came in the form of “Heart-failure”… Like I said, I don’t understand the capability/ low tolerance keeping with 1 or 2 drinks, but for me it doesn’t exist, although many other people can live that way… Truthfully having the “Alcohol vs. life” ultimatum is freedom… I don’t agree it is a disease.. It is a personality that makes an addict/ over achiever/ perfectionist/ limit breaker.. The competition between you vs. alcohol.. Who controls who???. I didn’t learn from books/ speeches/ quick fix/ loved ones saying I should quit/ slow down… I did however learn from pain/ depression/ life choices/ physical breakdown…. I finally quit for me.. Not for anyone else/ anything else,,, just the comfortable decision I had more than enough and can face life head on instead of the crutch of medicating…
Great video content! Excuse me for butting in, I am interested in your thoughts. Have you considered Saankramer Life Card System (Sure I saw it on Google)? It is a smashing one off product for learning how to stop drinking without the normal expense. Ive heard some unbelievable things about it and my cousin at very last got great success with it.
I used to inbibe just to get through a long Canadian winter and it works but skiing is slightly safer. (but doing both is not recommended)
I was self-medicating with alcohol, and when I was put on Vistaril for anxiety disorder, alcohol became a non-issue. Don’t miss it, don’t condemn anyone for enjoying it…it just doesn’t interest me in the least.
I work with 2 recovering alcoholics. They both went through a 12 step program and both have been dry for 20+ years. From my limited experience those programs can work.
Important information. I’ve been wondering if I should try to drink in moderation. After all, my bout with alcoholism didn’t end in jail. But I guess I wont. Wish me luck.
For a number of years, I was in a theater company and lived in a big apartment with the director and a revolving door of other roommates, some of which were actors and others who were merely friends of the director. The majority were either “recovering” alcoholics or active drunkards. One of the “recovering” ones gave me the most thorough explanation of alcoholism I’d ever heard. It’s too lengthy to relate here, but the weird thing is that this guy was, apart from that explanation, one of the least articulate people I knew. Why I used the parentheses around the term “recovering” was because, from what I’ve observed, people who have seriously abused alcohol for a long enough time never return all the way to normal, but then, I can’t say for sure if they ever were “normal” to begin with. Alcoholism, from what I’ve seen, ruins people to an extent up there with the worst substance abuse types heroin, cocaine, whatever.
How bout they ever stop? Go through alcohol withdrawal? Shut the fuck up. My grandfather had a sugar field. So. Nothing is good.
I love to take whisky with beer every night. Is it good for health?
Why try to explain why alcohol is bad with questionable reasonings when there is data? The only interesting thing was the apparent increase in the probability to develop 16 diseases from alcohol use, and we didn’t get numbers… Really disappointing for a 19min video!
Call it by a longer, more official sounding name. Like there ain’t enough acronyms to confuse humanity for eternity already.
LSD is great treatment for boozers, the aud sufferers. LSD.
A short-term use of naltrexone can easily reduce your drinking each month all the way to zero, in only 6-12 months if you really want to regain your health! https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07NBWMH9D
Naltrexone is safe and non-addictive amazing in that as it reduces the cravings to drink, it also reduces the need for the medication. You might be interested in this documentary called ‘One Little Pill’ on The Sinclair Method https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07NBWMH9D
and also the book by Dr. Roy Eskapa, PHD, “The Cure for Alcoholism”.
There is a wonderful TEDx talk as well on YouTube.
Ahhh yes. Another feel-good “it’s not your fault” video about addictions.
You are an IDIOT!!! No such thing just Weak minded IDIOTS!!! No one holds a gun to their head and make them drink!!! Again Just Weak Minded IDIOTS!!!!
Cultural science disuaded persons to use the term “mechanisms” to disasterous socio symptom effect.
My 3rd ex-wife was drinking an entire 2 liter bottle of cheap wine every night. But THEN I discovered WHY and it was because she was a full blown METH addict and she was drinking the wine so she could go to sleep at night. Wow.
Have you ever looked into or done any research or reported on the success of options like Psilocybin Muchrooms, Ayahuasca or even LSD and their success rate in actually 100% curing all kinds of addiction, including Alcohol, opiates, Cigarettes and others addictions? All reports put their success rate in the high 80% range after one single medically supervised session. I’m sure big Pharma isn’t in favor of this, but the stats don’t lie.
EVERYONE is at risk. Exactly. The more you drink, the more you need. It isn’t rocket science… or a disease. Enjoyed this Ted Talk.
“Alcohol is a depressant, so it can make your depression symptoms worse” ahhahahahhahahah holy shit
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I like the yellow stile -makes you look very professional ����
Meet at least 2… that wheel is more of a biography for me ��
If you think you have a problem with alcohol AA is the first place to start.Dont let the progressive left with there phony studied fool you. The program works and it’s free.
Basically a lot of unsubstantiated nonsense. My field of expertise for many years, now retired.
Yes, true about the risk of alcoholism, but our culture is so intertwined with various uses of alcohol that it is impossible to ban alcohol. We, the society must set clearer limits for use. We are social beings and we can influence each other. Still the deepest cause for addiction is struggle to get rid of ones problems. There is no solution today, but drinking only with friends on parties not more than once a week could reduce the chance of alcoholism. Other method to test yourself is to obstain (not to drink) for at least one month. If you cannot do it, you have a problem with alcohol.
Great video. Really could’ve used this a year ago especially from a source I’m familiar with and trust. Its unfortunate that many people don’t know a lot of this information no matter how much they try to help. In the end the user has to make the decision that they don’t want to keep drinking, and then I believe recovery is achievable.
The “get help” hype: IMO, the medical game (Corp. rehab & insurance) is rigged whether it goes for or against. Me: 1-4 drinks 1x-2x a week. Basic tests are fine yet I can feel neuropathy-like symptoms in extremities. Why? Routine tests are outdated. Brit P-doc: “in the NIH in 2018 immunology has made no difference whatever to patients w depression, psychosis….” 2009, US P-doc to me, “we’re still in the dark ages.” 10 yrs later? It’s all ab’t “stigma” bc there’s nothing else to say. CBT? How long has that been around?
Inflammation is the “new” big deal. Functional MD’s have been talking about that for a decade. On YT, anything with “neuro” in it is supposed to be credible. Not even close. YT content has improved big time since 2016 long before YT finally started cracking down on RW trolls degrading its platform.
Does he really need a stethoscope draped around his neck to tell us he’s a doctor?
PHD’s do not like 12 step programs, because they don’t get a paycheque when abstinence occurs there.
I have an alcohol problem. Problem is I can’t afford to drink enough.
Mmm I feel like someone with no personal experience with dependency shouldn’t be talking about it like this… Just sayin.. sorta kinda maybe sounded like a whole lotta nothing…
Drug can be good when used for medical purposes and guided by medical experts like a doctor who tell you how to use the drugs responsibly and you should follow their expertise by the letter, you shouldn’t do anything with the drug without permission by a doctor and you shouldn’t give your drug to anyone other then the yourself, not only is it dangerous, you might kill someone by accident and what works for you might not work for someone else, then there are of course therapy and surgery among other common treatments for diseases both physical and psychological, the more evidence based treatment we have the better, so I am okay with marijuana aka cannabis aka weed being used for medical purposes at least but not for recreational purposes.
One vodka large per day gives doctor less health forever ��������
Wait…Alcohol being a depressant, does not mean it makes you depressed, it means it’s a nervous system depressant: Slow reactions, bad choices etc.
Am I wrong? Lol
Oh horse shit LOL On my island every cane farmer has a rum still in their barn. Everyone staggers around the jungle drunk on rum every day and they live to be 100. Explain that Doc
Has anyone tried Baclofen to reduce alcohol cravings? Did it help? Side effects/down side? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3540966/
I hate alcohol with a passion…it ruined so many lives. It ruined my family….
Harm Reduction Therapy https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3928290/ is an effective evidence-based, peer-reviewed system. Why would this video ignore it and every other alternative substance abuse treatment program while promoting AA which for most people with AUD doesn’t work?
Good..but I wish the speaker had a better Grip on the English language..
Alcoholism is mental, there’s no need for all of this. If you can’t quit you shouldn’t have started
I’ve had 4 spinal fusions, and the S-L5 never fused. For the past 9 years I have treated the pain with opiates, but now the medical profession has decided to no longer provide pain relief medication. I now have 3 options as I see it. Either I use alcohol to deaden the pain, heroin to treat the pain, or I commit suicide. I’m leaning towards alcohol since it seems to be the most easy to obtain, however, heroin would be more efficacious. Is alcohol less of a risk than heroin? Doing nothing is not an option. I’m 55 so maybe it’s just better to end it. At any rate medicine has failed me, and now they aren’t even going to let me have any relief. I highly recommend that you never allow a surgeon to operate on your back. They will harm you and than abandon you. Avoid physicians at all costs. Pain is no longer being treated, so the time to legalize assisted suicide is now. I’m probably going to leave quite a mess behind in the end, and it really should not have to be this way. Avoid physicians. Stay out of hospitals. These people will think nothing of harming you and will than abandon you. It’s all about money, and they don’t give 2 shits about you.
Info wrong and misleading to put it mildy, and talk English properly! My advice is ignore this guy completely! His advice is completely wrong, just another like the sound of my own voice vid. I’m not going into great detail because it would be a book to say whats wrong with this, use google and wiki! One tip 28units of whiskey or 28 units of vodka NO they are not the same! 40% alcohol causes you to dehydrate, cider @ 7.5% does not! Quite clearly this guy has not been an alcoholic and knows nothing about it.
Addiction is the brains mis-guided attempt to sooth pain…usually emotional pain.
If you don’t treat the pain and only end the addiction to alcohol, you will become addicted to something else.
Drinking to excess is merely a symptom. One should look for the emotional pain that is causing the person to self medicate with alcohol. Just dealing with drinking and calling it a disease is just treating the symptom and until you stop ignoring the underlying cause will only lead to failure.
Drinking alcohol is very good for weight loss. All alcohol is carcinogenic and causes cancer in every organ of the body. The Good News is that a side effect of chemo is nausea and vomiting….. so fabulous for weight lose.
My family has a horrible history of alcohol dependency on both sides. Every member except me. They start drinking early every morning. They drink and drive. The only times my father has attacked me was when he had been drinking.
Alcohol kills people and causes them to hurt others. I wish people could be happy drinking alternatives: coffee, tea, juice, etc.
Please don’t start drinking, you may never stop.
I’m all late here but is false is not addictive is more for depressing people. In my experience I just feel good and I wake up good I never vomit or ever gotten drunk you just need to know how much you can handle. But that’s not about it you need to eat good and drink a lot of water before and after. If not you not gonna like it when you wake up.
It is not a disease, it’s a habit. Like psychology, the 12 step programs are not science and not effective
They gave me naltrexone in my last detox/rehab and I haven’t had a drink in almost 7 years.
So binge drinking is defined as more than 4 drinks on any given day? So If I have 5 or 6 12oz beers over a period of 7-8 hours that is considered binge? Meh.
just say no! after 40 years of very heavy drinking i was faced with cirrhosis of the liver. i either quit or i died. i quit and have been living pretty well with cirrhosis and no alcohol. i did have nearly bleed to death 3 times from burst esophageal varices after the first year but have been okay since then. over 13 1/2 years and i never once missed alcohol! no outside help but God.
I’m no fan of 12 step groups, but to go from alcoholism to moderate drinking? P’ve known probably thousands of alcoholics and I’ve never seen trying to drink in moderation end well. They might be able to keep drinking under control for a few months, maybe even a year, and then it’s deja vue all over again