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Copyright 2006 Mary Desaulniers It is New Year's Eve. You have one drink, then another, then a third. You used to be able to chug down 6 drinks without consequences. But lately, you've noticed that things are a bit different. Before dinner is over, you are wobbly; your speech slurs. Before the night is over, you are spread
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Alcohol withdrawal syndrome is intermediated by a mixed bag of mechanisms. The mind maintains neurochemical symmetry through repressive and excitant neurotransmitters. The principal inhibitory neurotransmitter is gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), that works through the GABA-alpha (GABA-A) neuroreceptor. One of the major excitant neurotransmitters is glutamate, which behaves through the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) neuroreceptor. Alcohol raises the outcome of GABA on GABA-A
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Though there is still some debate about the nature of alcoholism, most professionals now understand it to be a chronic and sometimes fatal disease, likely with a genetic component. In the definition adopted by the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, alcoholism is characterized by “impaired control over dinking…and distortions in thinking,
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