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"Alcoholism a disease? No way! Cancer is a disease. All they have to do is put down the bottle!" "If he cared enough about what he was doing to his parents, he'd get help. It's that simple." "She's been through rehab before – I don't see how this time will be any different." Likely you've heard statements like these. Perhaps you've even thought them, yourself. So much of what we believe about addiction and addiction recovery is bound up in stigma,...
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The explosion in 21st century brain research is radically changing our understanding of what happens to the brain when it's under the influence of alcohol and when it's on the receiving end of a person's drinking behaviors. As a result, this science is giving us new language for talking about a phenomenon that affects 90 million Americans and hundreds of million more people worldwide. This phenomenon is Secondhand Drinking (SHD). SHD is a term to...
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You have likely heard one or more of the following statements:
• Drinking coffee sobers a person up.
• Alcoholism is not a disease. Cancer is a disease. Alcoholism is a choice - put down the bottle!
• Letting your teen drink at home teaches them how to drink safely.
• An employee's alcohol use is none of a company's business.
• "Forgetting" what happened while drinking is just a convenient way of pretending you don't remember the...
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