COVID-19 Party Drinkers: Addicted or Just Irresponsible? By now you’ve likely seen the viral videos of “spring breakers” partying during the COVID-19 pandemic despite recommendations from experts and of...
Tag: alcohol abuse
How to Celebrate National Beer Day in Recovery
When someone mentions that National Beer Day is coming up, it’s unlikely that your first thought is root beer. For many people in recovery, “holidays” centered around drinking or using drugs can potential...
Staying Sober on St. Patrick’s Day with Friends Who Drink
Saint Patrick’s Day celebrates Irish culture and religion, but it can also be a hard day for those in recovery. While it has proud roots, Saint Patrick’s Day’s association with alcohol warrants a little e...
Why Do People Drink on St. Patrick’s Day?
When St. Patrick’s Day comes rolling around every year, people all over the world start getting their shamrocks and green beer ready. But do you know why people drink on St. Patrick’s Day? St. Patrick’s...
What Happens When You Mix Lunesta and Alcohol?
Across the United States, about 60 million people struggle with chronic sleeplessness, or insomnia – and many of them use Lunesta. A sedative-hypnotic medicine, Lunesta was designed to help people fall as...
The Benefits of Quitting Alcohol
We all know how dangerous alcohol is. Many of us and the people we care about have been severely impacted and even destroyed by excessive drinking. Alcohol kills 88,000 people a year according to the Centers f...
The Dangers of Mixing Librium and Alcohol
A powerful prescription benzodiazepine medication, Librium helps manage anxiety. The brand-name for chlordiazepoxide, Librium can, in some cases, help individuals manage alcohol withdrawals. However, the scary ...
40 Best Mocktails of the 2020 Holiday Season
The way that we as a society view alcohol can make it hard for those in recovery. It can make it difficult to find places or gatherings that take those in recovery into account. This is especially true during a...
Dry January: What Is It and How Can It Improve Health in the New Year?
New Year’s Eve is one of the drunkest nights of the year. Many will be waking up on New Year’s Day with unbearable hangovers, saying they’ll never drink again. Dry January is a great way to explore an alc...
Staying Sober on New Year’s Eve
People in recovery can often feel like they have their noses pressed against the glass on New Year’s Eve. The holidays are supposed to be about new beginnings, fresh starts, and promises to be the best versio...
One Direction’s Liam Payne Discusses How Industry Pressure Led Him to Start Drinking Early
Ever since his band’s musical career took off after their fame from the X-Factor when he was 14, the music industry is all One Direction’s Liam Payne has known. In a recent interview with Men’s Health Aus...
A May Day Message for Workers Struggling with Alcohol and Drug Abuse
The May Day holiday has taken different forms and has been associated with many different events throughout history, one of the most prominent of which is International Workers Day. The relationship between May...
Drinking and Cinco de Mayo: What You Need to Know
Recovery Unplugged concludes our Alcohol Awareness Month blog series by focusing on high rates of alcohol consumption on Cinco de Mayo. The heavy drinking that occurs during this holiday can easily counteract t...
Miles Davis, Alcohol Addiction and Environment: What Is The Connection?
At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, director Stanley Nelson premiered his latest documentary project Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool. The film is, at once, blistering, raw, celebratory and brilliant: a perf...
In Recognition and Observance of Alcohol Awareness Month
Poor April; for years it has had the dubious distinction of “Tax Season,” a “fool’s” month, and “showers” that are simply a placeholder for something better in May. Fortunately, however, the month...
Is Your Career Making You Use?: Jobs with the Highest Rates of Alcohol and Drug Addiction
Everyone’s job is stressful, right? Even the people who beat the alarm clock every morning and race with enthusiasm to the most rewarding of jobs occasionally find themselves checking their blood pressure wit...
WHO Study Reveals Grave New Realities of Alcohol-Related Death
We all know excessive drinking is bad, even those who continue to practice it on a daily basis; however, a recent, comprehensive study conducted and published by the World Health Organization has managed to ill...
Addiction in Families: The Lesser-Discussed Casualties of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
Addiction in families is becoming an increasingly common reality. Last year over 72,000 Americans succumbed to fatal drug overdose. Countless others escaped with their lives after overdosing, and more still wal...
Put Down the Glass: What New Blood Pressure Guidelines Mean for Alcoholism in Florida and the Rest of the United States
A third of the country just got diagnosed with high blood pressure. New guidelines from the American Heart Association have changed the rate that constitutes dangerously high blood pressure for adults from 140/...
JAMA Study: One in Eight Americans Suffers from Alcohol Addiction
The relationships between Americans and drinking has always been, for the most part, a close one. According to a new study published by JAMA Psychiatry, the bond between Americans and their alcohol has only got...
What Ben Affleck’s Recent Stint in Alcoholism Treatment Tells Us about Addiction
When Ben Affleck recently disclosed that he had completed treatment for alcohol abuse, it was not anything that the public hadn’t heard before. The actor, writer and director has experienced a long and docume...
The Current State of Florida’s Struggle with Alcoholism
Though national attention has understandably shifted toward opioid and heroin addiction, a problem that continues to take thousands of lives each year, alcohol abuse and addiction remain one of the most dominan...
Alcoholism in Texas by the Numbers
There’s no question about it: Texas likes to drink, and they sit right alongside the rest of the country in that preference. Despite increasing shifting media and political attention to opioids in the heroin ...
Stanford Bans (Some) Alcohol at On-Campus Parties
Shortly after a high-profile sexual assault on its campus, in which convicted offender and former university swimmer Brock Turner was given what many are calling a “slap on the wrist,” Stanford University h...
Texas A&M Researchers Make Significant Discovery about How Drinking Affects the Brain
Those of us that have experienced alcohol addiction, as well as those of us on the verge through prolonged abuse, understand what it’s like to simply not be able to stop. It’s like there’s some irresistib...
Recovery Unplugged Partners with Broward County Bar Association in New “Drink Responsibly” Campaign
Recovery Unplugged is proud and delighted to announce our new partnership with Broward County Bar Association in promoting safe and responsible alcohol consumption. The Drink Responsibly Campaign is a collabora...
Why Every Month Should be Alcoholism Awareness Month
As of today, we find ourselves right smack-dab in the middle of Alcoholism Awareness Month, an event created by the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence to empower everyday people to promote grass...
Alcohol Awareness Month
We are full on in April and we have to mention that it is Alcohol Awareness Month. The goal of this commemorative month is to increase public awareness, public understanding and to get people the drug rehab th...
Five Truths about Alcohol Use
I was prompted to write this post from an article I read on CNN Health’s The Chart website, “Studies link alcohol to early death, memory loss” in January 2014. I thought it would be beneficial to pull a c...
It’s just college, right?
Alcohol and college are closely associated with each other in the minds of students and graduates with plenty of nights they don’t really remember. Many people say, “Its college, have fun!” Very rarely ar...
The Signs of Alcohol Addiction
Due to the nature of our society and the prominence of ‘social drinking,’ many times, alcoholism goes undetected. But, in all actuality, alcoholism is a dangerous condition that can be deadly if untreated. ...
Hereditary alcoholism, is it real?
As much as people think heredity is not a factor in alcohol abuse, hereditary alcoholism does exist in the sense that some people are genetically predisposed to abusing alcohol. It all starts in the brain. The ...