Addictions and Recovery
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This blog is an outgrowth of a course that I taught at Christian Brothers University in Memphis, TN, entitled “The Biology of Addiction”. This course, was, in essence, a study of human biology through the lens of addictions. My developing this course was, in turn, a consequence of an incident that occurred while I was still drinking, in which I passed out on a busy street while riding my bicycle. Fortunately, I had fallen to the right, onto the sidewalk out of harm’s way, rather than to the left, onto a traffic lane where I could have been run over. Sometime after starting my recovery, I thought about that incident and concluded that I had been given an opportunity to move forward with a new mission. The answer, to me as an academic, was to offer a course on the biology of addiction for non-majors.
That sense of mission sustained me through the rest of my teaching career.
Now that I am retired, I still receive interesting information from agencies (such as the National Institutes of Health) and journals (Journal of the American Medical Association), so I would like to share this information with those who read this blog.
12. Fetal alcohol syndrome disorder: Physical signs, chemical and molecular biomarkers, and long-term consequences
11. Liver cirrhosis and Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome as alcoholic endpoints
10. The adolescent brain and alcohol
9. The designation of 0.08% blood alcohol concentration (BAC) as the legal limit is fairly arbitrary. Impairment can occur before then.
8. Women seeking parity with men in the workplace is great. Achieving near parity in alcohol-related morbidity and mortality is not.
7. Courage, or at least the lack of fear, can come in the form of a pill.
6. Offering first-time fathers parental leave results in a reduction in morbidity associated with alcohol use disorders
5. Acupuncture as a modality for detoxification and treatment for alcoholism
4. A single dose of alcohol is enough to modify the brain
3. What was called “an allergy of the body and obsession of the mind” is now “alcohol use disorder.”
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