Alcohol Reaction Drug List
Check This List Before Taking Any Medication
There are very few medications that can be safely taken while drinking alcohol. Many prescription drugs and even most over-the-counter medications carry a warning against using the drug while drinking alcohol.
Before you take any medication, if you drink alcohol, check this list of more than 9,000 [...]

Hep C - Does sexual transmission occur?
Although there is some uncertainty about hepatitis C (also called hep C) being transmitted sexually, it’s not classified as an STI (sexually transmissible infection). General scientific knowledge supports this position.
Some people, unable to identify any other risk factors, believe they may have contracted hep C sexually. Additionally, some research [...]

 
A 33-Year Follow-up of Narcotics Addicts
This study examined longitudinal patterns of heroin use, other substance use, health, mental health, employment, criminal involvement, and mortality among heroin addicts.
The sample was composed of 581 male heroin addicts admitted to the California Civil Addict Program (CAP) during the years 1962 through 1964; CAP [...]

My name is Paul and I am a Cocaine Addict.
I was born in Liverpool, the second son in a family of five boys and one girl. My father was a Liverpool dockworker who used to come home from work via the pub every night. I remember my parents would fight physically, and more often than [...]

Abstinence - treatment, philosophy, methods

In a second part article Dr Gordon Morse tackles detoxification as a route to abstinence, putting a relevant focus on the individual, philosophical or even spiritual meaning for the patient.
His view, that it is the individual’s confidence and approach, the significance given to their endeavour, rather than method per se, which [...]

Patients on Methadone With Unhealthy Alcohol Use Have Poor Quality of Life
Excessive alcohol consumption is prevalent among patients receiving methadone treatment for opioid dependence and may be associated with poor quality of life. In this cross-sectional study of 192 outpatients receiving methadone, researchers in England assessed the association between unhealthy alcohol use (measured with the [...]

Relapse is never an accident. Relapse is a sign that we have a reservation in our program." Narcotics Anonymous, Basic Text, p. 76
A reservation is something we set aside for future use.
In our case, a reservation is the expectation that, if such-and-such happens, we will surely relapse.
What event do we expect will be too [...]

Narcotics Anonymous is a non-profit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem. We are recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other to stay clean. There are no dues or fees. The only requirement for membership is the desire to stop using.
You don’t have to be [...]

Heroin addicts reduce craving with Injectable Naltrexone
Heroin addicts stayed in treatment longer, used less heroin and were more prone to be heroin free after 2 months.
Sixty addicts were trialed on a new long acting form of drug that only needs to be used once a month. The drug, Naltrexone, reduces the pleasurable effects of heroin [...]