Category: Sober living

And most physicians that I know drink at least socially. And alcohol provides this, I call it an easy button, to mitigate a feeling you don’t want to feel or amplify a feeling that you do want to feel. So it’s a pretty good coping strategy in the moment to grab a glass of wine...

However, given their effect on tremors, tachycardia and hypertension, these drugs could mask AWS symptoms and should be considered only in conjunction with BZDs in patients with persistent hypertension or tachycardia 54. This adaptive phenomenon results in long-term reductions in the effects of alcohol in the CNS, i.e., tolerance 10, 14, 15. More recently, an...