Alcohol Abuse: The Biology Behind Alcohol-Induced Blackouts

Alcohol Abuse: The Biology Behind Alcohol-Induced Blackouts
Neuroscientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified the brain cells involved in alcohol-related blackouts and the molecular mechanism that appears to underlie them. Alcohol interferes with key receptors in the brain, which in turn manufacture steroids that inhibit long-term potentiation, a process that strengthens the connections between neurons and is …
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Alcohol Abuse: Namibia: March Against Alcohol
The International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking was marked with a belated march against alcohol on Saturday.
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Alcohol Abuse: Intervention S09-E09 Ryan & Jason – Alcohol abuse and Heroin 01/03



Website: www.facebook.com When Jason’s mother and stepfather had twins, Jason felt abandoned. He dropped out of school and turned to drugs. Now he lives with his grandmother in a retirement community and takes up to 30 mg of Xanax and shoots heroin up to five times a day. After an overdose, Jason had multiple hospitalizations and four grand mal seizures. Worn out from the drama, his family is frustrated with their inability to get Jason to stop using drugs and into treatment. A chef for 15 years, Ryan dreams of running a kitchen in a four-star restaurant. But alcoholism stands in his way. Ryan always felt like the black sheep of the family compared to his successful, police officer brother. His mother supplies him with alcohol so that he doesn’t go into withdrawal. But now the family feels that “it’s not if we lose him, but when.”

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