Although binge drinking is not defined as alcoholism or alcohol dependency, it can be just as risky and carries several issues and can lead to alcohol dependence.
Acute alcohol poisoning treatment is administered when a person drinks enough alcohol that the levels in their body become toxic. Binge drinking is usually the cause of acute alcohol poisoning.
Since the introduction of COVID-19 restrictions last March Help Me Stop have been continuously updating our risk assessment processes to ensure the safety of our clients and staff. Outside of the social distancing on site, the provision of face guards for clients and staff and increased infection control all of our frontline staff have been vaccinated and there are also opportunities for our face to face clients to have regular COVID testing.
Drugs don’t have to be illegal to be problematic. Prescription drug misuse and prescription drug addiction is widespread and growing.
With increasing calls to Help Me Stop from relatives worried about loved ones taking ketamine, we take a look at the physical, mental and emotional effects of using ketamine.
Those that have been through treatment know the dangers of cross addiction and many that underplay the risk of it find themselves back in treatment with their new addiction.
The short and long term negative effects of cocaine use are often overlooked and underplayed by individuals that use the drug.One of the first solutions in stopping cocaine use and staying stopped is to understand why you want to do it? What’s your motivation to stop?
According to the Royal Society of Psychiatrists 8.4 million people in the UK are now drinking alcohol at hazardous and harmful levels. Why should you cut down or stop?