"NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Alcoholics Anonymous can help people, young and old, recover from drinking problems, but young adults seem to benefit mainly - and only - from certain aspects of the program, according to a small U.S. study."
"ZIPnet is een website over Hygiëne & Infectiepreventie in verpleeg-, verzorgingshuizen en thuiszorg. ZIPnet bevat protocollen, checklisten en beleid, gebaseerd op de landelijk richtlijnen van de Werkgroep Infectie Preventie. Naast algemene hygiëneprotocollen biedt ZIPnet praktische informatie over hygiënemaatregelen bij cliënten met een infectie of multiresistente bacteriën. Het onderhoud van ZIPnet ligt in handen van de Beheerders en Regiegroep."
"People in the study who often attended religious services were less likely to report symptoms of depression during the two-year study, researchers found."
"A new study from Cambridge University in the U.K. has identified a part of the brain that appears to play an active role in compulsive gambling. The study, led by Dr. Luke Clark of Cambridge, was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)."
"Mental illness describes abnormal cognitive or emotional patterns related to how a person thinks, feels, acts, and/or relates to others and his or her surroundings. Factitious Disorder is a mental disorder in which a person acts as if he or she has a physical or mental illness when, in fact, he or she has consciously created their symptoms. The name factitious comes from the Latin word for "artificial.""
Gabapentin reduces alcohol consumption and craving, which may help patients to maintain abstinence. These results, together with the virtual absence of side effects and a favorable safety profile, support gabapentin as a potential drug for the treatment of alcohol withdrawal and dependence.
"Het anti-epilepticum gabapentine is effectief in het verminderen van alcoholafhankelijkheid. Dat bevestigt een dubbelblinde placebogecontroleerde studie."
" The Infographic takes the reader through the possible transition of experimenting with non-medical prescription pain relievers through serious heroin-related health consequences, highlighting the close link between prescription drug abuse and more traditional, and perhaps better understood, drugs of abuse."
"On the enhancement of creativity by alcohol: Pharmacology or expectation?
Lapp, William M.; Collins, R. Lorraine; Izzo, Charles V.
The American Journal of Psychology, Vol 107(2), 1994, 173-206. doi:"
"I didn't know what I was going to write about today.
When this happens, normally I grab a coffee to help get the ideas flowing, but for the last few days in Montreal, no one's been allowed to drink the water due to a bacteria leakage, which also means, no coffee.
So instead, I grabbed the next best thing to help me get going - a beer."
"Does it help writers to drink? Certainly Jack Kerouac, Dylan Thomas, John Cheever, Ernest Hemingway and F Scott Fitzgerald thought so. But, wonders Blake Morrison, are the words on the page there despite and not because of alcohol?"
"Writer, philosopher, gadfly, and Slate contributor Chrisopher Hitchens died on Thursday of complications from esophageal cancer. While drinking and smoking may have contributed to his untimely passing, Hitchens didn't regret either habit: "Writing is what's important to me, and anything that helps me do that-or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes intensifies argument and conversation-is worth it to me." After Steve Jobs died, we explained how LSD may enhance creativity among innately creative people. Does alcohol improve your writing?"
"I'm putting it out there on this post with some personal information and opinions. It might also be controversial or confronting for some people. But bloggers need to be true to themselves and their ideas, so here goes."
"Thema van de Internationale Dag van de Slaap in 2014 is "Sleep Well, Grow Healthy", en gaat erom dat mensen van alle leeftijden een goed slaapritme moeten behouden voor een gezonde levensstijl - zowel kinderen als volwassenen en bejaarden. "
"Onze vrouw verbleef een week lang in de luxe-verslavingskliniek Solutions in het Nederlandse Voorthuizen, waar verslaafden uit verschillende disciplines (alcohol, drugs, gokken, sport, seks, shoppen, eten) samen proberen af te kicken. Er waren drie voorwaarden: neem geen waspoeder mee (triggert cokeverslaafden), geen deodorantspray (drinken alcoholverslaafden op) en draag zéker geen decolleté (doet seksverslaafden onrustig op hun stoel wiebelen)."