Breaking an Addictive Habit

Exercise is the Best Way

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Again and again you've tried to quit. You're tired of the guilt that's comes from your dependence of food, coffee, sex, pills, cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, or whatever. How can you obtain freedom from your addiction? This step may be your answer.

Exercise. A brisk walk, a swim, or bike rid will help by physically removing your from the temptation. Exercise produce endorphins that encourage feelings of optimism and happiness. It gives you energy and relieves the stress that drives you to your habit.

Exercise produce endorphins that encourage felling of optimism and happiness. It give's you energy and relieves the stress that drives your habit.

Abnormal Appearance of a BABY because of Alcohol

A Deformed Baby

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Alcohol affects total body development of the baby from head to toe. Immediately noticeable is the smallest of the head, the flattened face, and the drooping eyelids. Other typical facial characteristics are: small eyes (due to shorten eyelids); a long, thin upper lip, the normal meddle nose-to-tip groove being absent; the nose shorten and upturned; skin folds at the inner corners of the eyes; and unusually small or large lower jaw.

Fortunately not all these outward deformities are present in every child with FAS.

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What Is FASD? ? ?

Alcoholic drinks is not good for babies

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This information was come from the internet.

It is a medical diagnosis that refers to a specific cluster of anomalies associated with the use of alcohol during pregnancy. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is one of the major known preventable birth defects among Canadian children.
Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE) is a term used to describe the presence of some, but not all, FASD characteristics when prenatal exposure to alcohol has been confirmed (also used occasionally when use is uncertain)

Fast Facts of FAS

• Based on estimated rates industrialized countries 1-3 per 1,000 births, it is estimated that in Canada at least one child is born with FASD each day.
• The effects of FASD/FAE can last a lifetime.
• Estimated lifetime extra health care, education and social services costs associated with the care of an individual with FASD are US$1.4M

Prenatal exposure to alcohol can cause

• intellectual deficits and learning disabilities
  
• hyperactive
• attention and/or memory deficits
• inability to manage anger
• difficulties with problem solving
• prenatal and post natal growth deficiencies
  

Potential secondary condition include

• early school drop out
• alcohol and drug abuse problems
• problems securing and maintaining employment
• homelessness
• trouble with the law
• mental health problems

Protective factors include

• abstinence early identification and diagnosis
  
• direct involvement with special services
• supportive environments

"The prudent choice for women who are or may be pregnant is to abstain from alcohol."

12 STEPS of Gamblers Anonymous Have A Corollary Bearign on alcoholism Addiction

This information was written by Mr. Jose A. Tojino, M.D President of the Philippine Foundation on Compulsive Gambling.

It is presented here as aid in the recovery process for both.

1. We admitted we were powerless over gambling/drinking-that our lives have become unmanageable.


2. We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to a normal way of thinking and loving.


3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of this power of our own understanding.


4. Made a searching and fearless moral and financial inventory of ourselves.


5. Admit to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.


6. We're entirely ready to have this defects of character removed.


7. Humbly ask God (of our understanding) to remove our shortcomings.


8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.


9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.


10. Continue to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.


11. Sough through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying for only knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.


12. Having made an effort to practice this principles in all our affairs, we tried to carry this message to other compulsive gamblers/drinkers.

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Can Alcoholism Be Cured? ? ?

This information, taken off the Internet, is provided by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).

Although alcoholism can be treated, a cure us not yet available. In other words, even if an alcoholic has been sober for a long time and has regained health, he or she remains susceptible and to relapse and must continue to avoid all alcoholic beverages. "Cutting down" on drinking doesn't work; cutting out alcohol is necessary for a successful recovery.

However, even individuals who are determined to stay sober may suffer one or several "slips," or relapses, before achieving long term sobriety. Relapses are very common and do not mean that a person has failed or cannot recover from alcoholism. Keep in mind, too, that every day that a recovering alcoholic has stayed sober prior to relapse is extremely valuable time, both to the individual and to his or her family. If relapse occurs, its is very important to try to stop drinking once again and to get whatever additional support you need to abstain from drinking.

Alcoholism Treatment. . .

This information, taken off the Internet, is provided by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).

The type of treatment you receive depends on the severity of your alcoholism and the resources that are available in your community. Treatment nay include detoxification (the process of simply getting alcohol out of you system); Taking doctor-prescribe medication to help prevent a return (or relapse) to drinking once drinking has stopped; and individual and group counseling. There are promising types of counseling that teach alcoholics to identify situations and feelings that trigger the urge and to find new ways to cope that don not include alcohol use.

Because the support of the family members is important to the recovery process, many programs also offer brief marital counseling and family therapy as part of the treatment process.

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What is Alcoholism? ? ?

Helo guys!!! This information was come from a magazine which is the "Fight Against Alcoholism".

Alcoholism, also known as "alcohol dependence," is the disease that includes the following:

• Craving: A strong need or compulsion to drink.

• Loss of control: The inability to limit one's drinking on any given occasion

• Physical dependence: Withdrawal symptoms such us nausea, sweating, shakiness, and anxiety, occur when alcohol use is stopped after a period of heavy drink.

• Tolerance: The need to drink greater amounts of alcohol in order to "get high".

People who are not alcoholic sometimes do not understand why an alcoholic can't just "use a little willpower" to stop drink. However, alcoholism are in the grip of a powerful "craving," or uncontrollable need. This need can be as strong as the need for food or water.

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