The liver breaks down most of the alcohol, though the substance also passes through the kidneys, urine, skin and lungs. If someone you care about is experiencing any of the symptoms of alcohol poisoning, call 911 and keep your friend safe until help arrives. Just[…]

Steve ran a successful studio and gallery space, worked on television sets, and has been involved in the city’s creative culture for years before his journey with New Life. He has been around highly structured sober livings for the last 6 years committed to self-improvement[…]

In many ways, his conviction and prison sentence put an end to Charlie’s ambitions. The day Jared would take over from his father was meant to be far in the future. And so two years later, in July 2006, Jared, having just finished his third[…]

During the intervention, encourage your spouse to seek treatment by confronting him about his alcohol addiction and how it affects you. If your husband is reluctant to seek treatment, consider an intervention. Committing to recovery takes a lot of courage, and some people may not[…]

Additionally, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) offers guidance on finding treatment and is alcohol a blood thinner support for AUD. Alcohol might also slow down the rate at which your body breaks down and removes the blood-thinning drug. Treating the underlying[…]

Depending on the individual’s needs, clients in our intense outpatient and Day Treatments often get therapy for 2-4 weeks. Through the provision of group, family, and individual therapy as well as medication management services, Greenleaf Center offers safe, structured programming. They provide 12 Step meetings,[…]

With long-term heavy drinking, alcoholic patients develop a ‘protracted abstinence syndrome’ in which they need at least some alcohol to attempt to feel a ‘normal’ mood, reward, and stress response 5. These deleterious effects of alcohol on the brain may take considerable time, likely on[…]

A more recent study of 249 male and female heavy drinkers with a history of past-year intimate partner violence found that acute alcohol intoxication moderated the impact of problematic alcohol use on an attentional bias toward anger (Massa et al., 2019). Specifically, it found that[…]