Codependency and Alcoho...

Codependent relationships are based on need, not love, with both parties trading off their freedom to make healthy choices in the relationship due to fear, anxiety and a compulsive need for the emotional security that the relationship brings. There are many types of unhealthy codependent...

Alcohol Venues and Viol...

All countries today, that permit the public sale and consumption of alcohol, including Canada, are facing a trend of increasing violence, related to alcohol drinking. Whereas some alcohol venues appear to have things under control, a combination of alcohol, drugs and youth energy often is...

Alcohol and Depression...

A 2002 survey by Statistics Canada shows around 600,000 Canadians, over the age of 15 to be alcohol dependent. In the survey heavy alcohol use is linked to depression – and depression to heavy alcohol use.  see link According to the survey, over 77% of Canadians had drunk alcohol...

In Vino Veritas –...

In vino veritas  means – in wine (is) truth.  There must be some truth in this old Latin maxim, because the same thought appears in old (and wise) sayings from other cultures as well. The ancient Greeks had a similar phrase, and also the Babylonian Talmud recites  – in came...

Drinking and Driving is...

My life has been nothing but going downhill ever since I started drinking. I felt like the world was against me. In that time  I have always drove drunk after a party and no matter how many times I got lucky by not getting caught by authorities or killing myself. I never thought about...

Alcohol Pricing and Dri...

Does alcohol pricing in Canada affect drinking habits and alcohol related harms. A February 2011 report from CAMH – Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, printed in the Canadian Medical Association Journal – says that alcohol consumption in Canada is increasing, a situation...

How to Stop Drinking &#...

When alcohol drinking is causing problems and you want to give it up, there really is only one thing to do and that is to simply stop. Easier said than done you say, I really have a problem – when I get tense, angry, remorseful, feel guilty – then I hit the bottle, and nothing...

Alcohol Withdrawal, Det...

Virtually everyone who drinks alcohol will have suffered at some time alcohol withdrawal effects, commonly experienced as a hangover. Nothing can prevent a hangover except abstinence from excessive drinking. There are many traditional cures and remedies for alcohol withdrawal,  although...

Children of Alcoholic P...

As early as 1979, research by Black and Brown concerning the issues faced by the children of alcoholic parents, was reported in Newsweek, with the comment that the adult children of alcoholics are a new, unrecognized and legitimate population. This and other articles are cited in a paper...

Alcoholic Parents – C...

One of the most significant side effects of a widely held viewpoint that alcohol addiction is a disease is that responsibility to correct the consequences of child abuse by alcoholic parents is by and large and by default put onto the laps of the children. There are numerous agencies and...