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Living With an Alcoholic Partner: How to Cope, Set Boundaries & Get Help

Living with someone who has an alcohol addiction takes an enormous emotional toll. Alcoholism can damage relationships, create chaos, and expose families to abuse, financial strain, or emotional trauma. Trying to help someone stop drinking is often an uphill battle. Even as life becomes unmanageable, many partners continue to offer support, often at the expense

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Wegovy

Wegovy A new and promising drug to assist with alcohol problems is now in second-stage trials. There is some exciting news for people with alcohol use disorder and possibly other addictions from research carried out at Oklahoma State University. When the weight reduction drug Wegovy was trialled, it was noticed that people who had excessive

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Vaping vs Smoking: Is Vaping Better than Smoking for Health?

Most people are well aware of the dangerous health effects of smoking cigarettes. Advertisements for cigarettes all say that smoking is dangerous to health. Cigarette boxes have warning labels on them, and even the dangers of secondhand cigarette smoke are well-known. So many people look for alternatives to smoking, and one alternative that’s become quite

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Do self-help meetings make a difference to recovery rates?

People trying to manage a substance misuse problem have long been recommended to attend self-help meetings, but they may wonder just how big an impact this will have on their success in stopping using.  In an 8-year-long study finally published in 2008, researchers examined the relationship between the number of AA meetings that people attended

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