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A Few Ways to Stop Drinking Alcohol

Is your fix on booze starting to take hold of your life? Most of the time, when dependency on alcohol will get extremely tough to manage, the alcohol addiction would likely come across that switching their life around would take much more than admitting that they requires assistance. Changing does not take place overnight which is why quitting will will need a lot of enthusiasm and patience.

If you believe you’ve a drinking trouble and are motivated about getting rid of it, here are a few guidelines that may help.

College Life: Drinking

Should drinking on college campuses be accepted as a rite of passage?  According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) 1,825 college students between the ages of 18 and 24 die from alcohol-related unintentional injuries, including motor vehicle crashes annually.   Nearly 600,000 students are injured while under the influence of alcohol.  97,000 students are victims of alcohol-related sexual assault or date rape.  Overindulgence is too acceptable among college co-eds and the “party hard” culture is leading many students into trouble.

Traditions and rituals on campus serve to reinforce expectations that alcohol is a necessary part of social success.  A desire to “fit in” on campus has led to disaster for many underage, inexperienced drinkers.  The combination of social and environmental influences has created a culture of drinking on most campuses.

Certain campus characteristics can reinforce the culture of drinking.  Campuses with the following characteristics have higher rates of excessive alcohol use among students.

Do Alcoholics Have Any Choice About Drinking?

Its very simple. The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your choices. When you make choices that are good for you, you feel good about yourself, do good things for yourself, and have many good experiences. When you make choices that are bad for you, you feel bad about yourself, do bad things to yourself, and have many bad experiences. One road leads to pleasure, the other, pain

Have you ever wondered why people do things that are clearly harmful to their health? Perhaps its because they really dont feel they have a choice.

This is why the alcoholic reaches for booze, the junkie for drugs, the sex-addict for porn. Its because deep in their hearts they have a subconscious need that must be satisfied, and the bottom line is, they havent learned to meet that need in a way that truly serves them. Since they cant see any other way, they havent got a choice.

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Question by Ji542: Why is it that people are so against smoking and other drugs but okay with drinking?
I mean I understand people can make their own personal choices and if they want to drink thats fine thats their choice I however am really against all drugs legal or not and I don’t get how people can be so against some drugs and claim they are harmful and all that but then be perfectly fine with other ones like at my school we’re constantly shown videos and told about how bad smoking is but I’ve never heard any teacher say that drinking is bad or shown a video about the negative effects of it on the contrary I’ve heard some of them before talking about how good drinking is and in a way glorifying it and I just don’t get it because if you look at society as a whole in the last couple of years without making it illegal or anything everyone has completely gone against smoking and started all these campaigns to show the bad effects of it and get it out of tv ads or places where it can affect/be seen by the general public but with beer and other alcoholic beverages they’re still plenty of ads for it on tv plenty of movies and shows and such glorifying it especially to people my age and with society in general drinking is just like a perfectly normal thing when out of all the drugs available alcohol is one of the worst for you and I know a lot of people will say oh well I only drink in moderation! well I’ve known plenty of people who drink quite a few who said that kind of stuff and they never drank in moderation they all got drunk at least once and constantly would drink so much that they wouldn’t get drunk but they would at least get a bit tipsy so I really don’t believe when people tell me they drink in “moderation” and so to summarize everything I just said why is it that people can be against smoking but be so in favor of drinking which is a drug too and equally as harmful
that’s not what I meant and you know that
T- completely agree with you alcohol can affect so many people! it can cause accidents because of DWI or can cause people to abuse someone because they don’t know what they are doing and I mean its just such a bad thing

Tips for Drinking Wine When Pregnant: Is it OK?

Some people might take the link between alcohol consumption and fetal alcohol syndrome lightly. But evidence seems to suggest a strong link between the two. Therefore it is wise to abstain from alcohol during the entire course of the pregnancy.

Countless caring mothers ask me whether it is safe to drink small amounts of alcohol during pregnancy. They wish that physicians or doctors would recommend some safe levels for consuming alcohol. But the difficulty with suggesting any safe level is that such parameters cannot be clearly defined. Moreover, what is considered safe for one individual can be extremely unsafe for another? Therefore, it is safer to abstain totally from alcohol intake during the entire course of pregnancy. Recommending a safe level of alcohol consumption could be one of the most unsafe pieces of advice to give pregnant women today.