I am writing about alcohol, anxiety and stress and really need some information to examine each of these. If you could please respond to these questions it would greatly be appreciated. Thanks so much for taking the time to stop and read this:)
Why do you think other people drink alcohol?
1. To relax
2. Improve sleep
3. Increase confidence
4. For the taste
5. Socially acceptable
6. Religious belief
7. To make them attractive
8. Romantic/Sexual reasons
Your answer (select one # from above list) _____________
1 Do you feel you are a normal drinker? (“normal” – drink as much or less than most other people)
2 Has your drinking ever resulted in your being hospitalized in a psychiatric ward?
3. Have you ever awakened the morning after some drinking the night before and found that you
could not remember a part of the evening?
4. After heavy drinking have you ever had delirium tremens (D.T.’s), severe shaking, visual or
auditory (hearing) hallucinations?
5. Has drinking ever created problems between you and a near relative or close friend?
6 Does any near relative or close friend ever worry or complain about your drinking?
7. Have you ever neglected your obligations, your family, or your work for two or more days in a
row because you were drinking?
8. Have you ever been hospitalized because of drinking?
9. Have you ever gone to anyone for help about your drinking?
10. Do you ever feel guilty about your drinking?
11. Have you been arrested more than once for driving under the influence of alcohol?
12. Have you ever gotten into trouble at work because of drinking?
13. Have you ever lost friends because of your drinking?
14. Can you stop drinking without difficulty after one or two drinks?
15. Have you ever lost a job because of drinking?
16. Have you ever been arrested, even for a few hours because of other behavior while drinking?
(If Yes, how many times____________)
17. Have you ever been told you have liver trouble such as cirrhosis?
18 Have you ever gotten into physical fights when drinking?
19. Has any family member or close friend gone to anyone for help about your drinking?
20. Do you drink before noon fairly often?
21. Have you ever gone to any doctor, social worker, clergyman or mental health clinic for help with
any emotional problem in which drinking was part of the problem?
22. Have you ever attended a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)?
WITHIN THE LAST MONTH HAVE YOU:
Please respond “Yes” or “No” for each question.
23 Did you hold your breath, have breathing pauses, or stop breathing in your sleep?
24 Did you snore loudly?
25 Did you have restless or “crawling” feelings in your legs at night that went away if you moved
your legs?
26. Did you have nightmares, or did you scream walk, punch, or kick in your sleep?
27. Did the following things disturb you in your sleep: pain, other physical symptoms, worries,
medications, or other (specify)?
28. Did you feel anxious
29. Did you fall asleep unintentionally or have to fight to stay awake during the day?
30. Did work or other activities prevent you from getting enough sleep?
31. Did you have repeated rhythmic leg jerks or leg twitches during your sleep?
32. Did you have difficulty falling asleep?
33. Did sleep difficulties or daytime sleepiness interfere with your daily activities??
USING A SCALE FROM 1=“not at all untypical of me” TO 5=”very typical of me” FOR EACH BELOW
1=NEVER 2=RARELY 3=SOMETIMES 4=OCCASSIONALY 5=OFTEN
Write the number from the above list that most likely represents your behavior.
33. Many situations make me worry.
34. I worry about projects until they are all done
35. Once I start worrying, I cannot stop.
36. I worry all the time.
37. If I do not have enough time to do everything, I do not worry about it.________
38. I know I should not worry about things, but I just cannot help it.
39. As soon as I finish one task, I start to worry about everything else I have to do.
40. When I am under pressure I worry a lot
41. I do not tend to worry about things.__________
42. I notice that I have been worrying about things.
43. I never worry about anything
44. I never worry about anything.
45. I am always worrying about something.
46. I find it easy to dismiss worrisome thoughts
47. I have been a worrier all my life.
48. When there is nothing more I can do about a concern, I do not worry about it anymore.
49. My worries overwhelm me.__________
I am looking at alcohol and sleep for a paper and need your help by answering these questions. If you could please respond it would greatly be appreciated. Thanks so much for taking the time to stop and read this:)
Why do you think other people drink alcohol?
1. To relax
2. Improve sleep
3. Increase confidence
4. For the taste
5. Socially acceptable
6. Religious belief
7. To make them attractive
8. Romantic/Sexual reasons
Your answer (select one # from above list) _____________
1 Do you feel you are a normal drinker? (“normal” – drink as much or less than most other people)
2 Has your drinking ever resulted in your being hospitalized in a psychiatric ward?
3. Have you ever awakened the morning after some drinking the night before and found that you
could not remember a part of the evening?
4. After heavy drinking have you ever had delirium tremens (D.T.’s), severe shaking, visual or
auditory (hearing) hallucinations?
5. Has drinking ever created problems between you and a near relative or close friend?
6 Does any near relative or close friend ever worry or complain about your drinking?
7. Have you ever neglected your obligations, your family, or your work for two or more days in a
row because you were drinking?
8. Have you ever been hospitalized because of drinking?
9. Have you ever gone to anyone for help about your drinking?
10. Do you ever feel guilty about your drinking?
11. Have you been arrested more than once for driving under the influence of alcohol?
12. Have you ever gotten into trouble at work because of drinking?
13. Have you ever lost friends because of your drinking?
14. Can you stop drinking without difficulty after one or two drinks?
15. Have you ever lost a job because of drinking?
16. Have you ever been arrested, even for a few hours because of other behavior while drinking?
(If Yes, how many times____________)
17. Have you ever been told you have liver trouble such as cirrhosis?
18 Have you ever gotten into physical fights when drinking?
19. Has any family member or close friend gone to anyone for help about your drinking?
20. Do you drink before noon fairly often?
21. Have you ever gone to any doctor, social worker, clergyman or mental health clinic for help with
any emotional problem in which drinking was part of the problem?
22. Have you ever attended a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)?
WITHIN THE LAST MONTH HAVE YOU:
Please respond “Yes” or “No” for each question.
23 Did you hold your breath, have breathing pauses, or stop breathing in your sleep?
24 Did you snore loudly?
25 Did you have restless or “crawling” feelings in your legs at night that went away if you moved
your legs?
26. Did you have nightmares, or did you scream walk, punch, or kick in your sleep?
27. Did the following things disturb you in your sleep: pain, other physical symptoms, worries,
medications, or other (specify)?
28. Did you feel anxious
29. Did you fall asleep unintentionally or have to fight to stay awake during the day?
30. Did work or other activities prevent you from getting enough sleep?
31. Did you have repeated rhythmic leg jerks or leg twitches during your sleep?
32. Did you have difficulty falling asleep?
33. Did sleep difficulties or daytime sleepiness interfere with your daily activities??
USING A SCALE FROM 1=“not at all untypical of me” TO 5=”very typical of me” FOR EACH BELOW
1=NEVER 2=RARELY 3=SOMETIMES 4=OCCASSIONALY 5=OFTEN
Write the number from the above list that most likely represents your behavior.
33. Many situations make me worry.
34. I worry about projects until they are all done
35. Once I start worrying, I cannot stop.
36. I worry all the time.
37. If I do not have enough time to do everything, I do not worry about it.________
38. I know I should not worry about things, but I just cannot help it.
39. As soon as I finish one task, I start to worry about everything else I have to do.
40. When I am under pressure I worry a lot
41. I do not tend to worry about things.__________
42. I notice that I have been worrying about things.
43. I never worry about anything
44. I never worry about anything.
45. I am always worrying about something.
46. I find it easy to dismiss worrisome thoughts
47. I have been a worrier all my life.
48. When there is nothing more I can do about a concern, I do not worry about it anymore.
49. My worries overwhelm me.__________
I AM WRITING A PAPER ON ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AND HOW IT RELATES TO SLEEP. If you could answer these questions I would greatly appreciate your input. Thank you for stopping by and reading this:)
Why do you think other people drink alcohol?
1. To relax
2. Improve sleep
3. Increase confidence
4. For the taste
5. Socially acceptable
6. Religious belief
7. To make them attractive
8. Romantic/Sexual reasons
Your answer (select one # from above list) _____________
1 Do you feel you are a normal drinker? (“normal” – drink as much or less than most other people)
2 Has your drinking ever resulted in your being hospitalized in a psychiatric ward?
3. Have you ever awakened the morning after some drinking the night before and found that you
could not remember a part of the evening?
4. After heavy drinking have you ever had delirium tremens (D.T.’s), severe shaking, visual or
auditory (hearing) hallucinations?
5. Has drinking ever created problems between you and a near relative or close friend?
6 Does any near relative or close friend ever worry or complain about your drinking?
7. Have you ever neglected your obligations, your family, or your work for two or more days in a
row because you were drinking?
8. Have you ever been hospitalized because of drinking?
9. Have you ever gone to anyone for help about your drinking?
10. Do you ever feel guilty about your drinking?
11. Have you been arrested more than once for driving under the influence of alcohol?
12. Have you ever gotten into trouble at work because of drinking?
13. Have you ever lost friends because of your drinking?
14. Can you stop drinking without difficulty after one or two drinks?
15. Have you ever lost a job because of drinking?
16. Have you ever been arrested, even for a few hours because of other behavior while drinking?
(If Yes, how many times____________)
17. Have you ever been told you have liver trouble such as cirrhosis?
18 Have you ever gotten into physical fights when drinking?
19. Has any family member or close friend gone to anyone for help about your drinking?
20. Do you drink before noon fairly often?
21. Have you ever gone to any doctor, social worker, clergyman or mental health clinic for help with
any emotional problem in which drinking was part of the problem?
22. Have you ever attended a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)?
WITHIN THE LAST MONTH HAVE YOU:
Please respond “Yes” or “No” for each question.
23 Did you hold your breath, have breathing pauses, or stop breathing in your sleep?
24 Did you snore loudly?
25 Did you have restless or “crawling” feelings in your legs at night that went away if you moved
your legs?
26. Did you have nightmares, or did you scream walk, punch, or kick in your sleep?
27. Did the following things disturb you in your sleep: pain, other physical symptoms, worries,
medications, or other (specify)?
28. Did you feel anxious
29. Did you fall asleep unintentionally or have to fight to stay awake during the day?
30. Did work or other activities prevent you from getting enough sleep?
31. Did you have repeated rhythmic leg jerks or leg twitches during your sleep?
32. Did you have difficulty falling asleep?
33. Did sleep difficulties or daytime sleepiness interfere with your daily activities??
USING A SCALE FROM 1=“not at all untypical of me” TO 5=”very typical of me” FOR EACH BELOW
1=NEVER 2=RARELY 3=SOMETIMES 4=OCCASSIONALY 5=OFTEN
Write the number from the above list that most likely represents your behavior.
33. Many situations make me worry.
34. I worry about projects until they are all done
35. Once I start worrying, I cannot stop.
36. I worry all the time.
37. If I do not have enough time to do everything, I do not worry about it.________
38. I know I should not worry about things, but I just cannot help it.
39. As soon as I finish one task, I start to worry about everything else I have to do.
40. When I am under pressure I worry a lot
41. I do not tend to worry about things.__________
42. I notice that I have been worrying about things.
43. I never worry about anything
44. I never worry about anything.
45. I am always worrying about something.
46. I find it easy to dismiss worrisome thoughts
47. I have been a worrier all my life.
48. When there is nothing more I can do about a concern, I do not worry about it anymore.
49. My worries overwhelm me.__________
Does second-hand smoking give you a “high” effect? To me it just smells bad…
Does breathing a cigarette, or “smoking” it without actually lighting up have any effect? If so how much.
Can you “safely” smoke without inhaling into the lungs? Like to blow smoke rings using just the smoke in your mouth…It might be fun…beats having to sink to the bottom of a pool to blow bubble rings.
How is the composition of a cigarette determined? Some guy randomly chooses 4000 things that make you dizzy, dilutes them and mixes them together?
I read this article about how smoking occasionally is good for your health, just like how occasional red wine is. There is also an article that says the opposite (of smoking) and how occasional smoking…(according to the article, even 5 a month…cigs not packs) is just as bad. 5 a month is a big difference than the couple packs a day I hear some people smoke. So what’s true? IMO, “scientific studies” like the ones in the articles I read are based on too little evidence and are probably just random noise rationalized to be evidence.
Cigarettes are supposedly highly addicting. I’ve heard things like quitting nicotine is harder than heroin and that one cigarette can addict you or that addiction can start as a craving from once a week and blow up into packs a day. So how addictive are they? I’ve heard that of all the people who’ve done drugs like ectasy or heroin, only 1% become the “druggies” that are often portrayed of T.V. and D.A.R.E programs. I know you can cook a frog in slowly boiling water but I’d much prefer the truth. (Unless of course, nicotine tolerance is highly genetic which according to another thing I read, might be true. Then w/e, it becomes all too subjective.)
My only experience with “craving” is for food when I was experimenting with fasting so I can’t really grasp or imagine the concept of a long term craving. Maybe a game I played a few days back that was fun but I was busy…but that’s hardly an “addiction”. It’s more like at the current time I can’t think of anything better to do. So what defines addiction? Is it harder than not eating for 2-3 days? Harder than waking up a 6 in the morning for a morning run (it’s effing required for my university…) Harder than holding a maximum stretch for a minute or doing push ups until you collapse due to lack of ATP?
(On a side note, perhaps being bored inspires greater things. A long time ago(I think), only the rich could afford an education, and the rich were often scientists. Nowadays it’s assumed only people who “like” science become scientist and is considered a chore rather than an exotic mystical thing to understand, like alchohol.)
(another side note, why do people have to make beer bitter with hops? Doesn’t modern technology provide a better means for preservation? Also, do people really like beer or do people drink it because others do…even my mom says she still doesn’t like the taste. I’ve started to like coffee a bit though, thought it’s probably more the scent than the taste…Alcoholic beverages are an ancient tradition though so I suppose I’m the one who’s missing something…)
And how healthy is breathing in incense? It’s lit up all over the place for meditation so I’m assuming it has SOME sort of psychological effect.
And yes I want to try out a cigarette. The “increase in alertness, reaction, and memory” is alluring. Although I’ve grown up in a environment where smoking has a really negative stigma to it. Aside from school that is (non-tertiary) but back then I always viewed the masses as ignorant sheep. *
*not anymore of course, apparently I was “cynical” and perhaps “overly arrogant”. Reading “The catcher in the rye” made me feel like a copycat.
~Thanks for the answers
(unless there aren’t any… I always wonder why people thank in advance…like when they grab your calculator and at the same time ask “can I borrow this?”)
So incense isn’t good for you…rather counterproductive to meditation in my opinion.
I read a story once on some old guy believing occasional cigars and red wine to be the key to good health. For me it wasn’t a far stretch to believe.
After all, minute amounts of poison or venom will promote immunity towards it. And exercise is basically tearing your muscles and making your heart beat fast. Even though there is a correlation between heart rate and lifespan. (compare mouse to turtle)
Kind of like how you have to forge steel with fire or how white cloth is hard to keep white but black is easy to keep black, or w/e semi-applying analogy you can think of. (sometimes instead of immunity, you become allergic)
of course, malica’s description is rather foreboding, though I have read that the genetic tolerance for nicotine might be highly genetic.
as for smoke rings, i’ve found out, just shake incense up and down to create the same vortex.
i am 20 year old guy.
I weigh 62 kgs and 175cm tall.
i have been doing jogging for the past 1 week(daily).
I run three kilometres.
I regularly do yoga meditation for 20 minutes before jogging.
The other day when i jog i felt as though my blood pressure went low and i felt tired the entire day.
Why our BP goes low when we exercise?
Can I continue to jog or should i increase my weight and then jog?
I also heard too much jogging is harmful like addiction.
what is the maximum duration you can jog daily?
PLEASE BE INFORMATIVE.
Former Drug Czar and retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey and addresses West Virginia lawmaker to promote drug treatment. He’s a paid board member of the for-profit CRC Health Group, which runs seven of eight methadone clinics in West Virginia. McCaffrey and company CEO Barry Karlin faced some tough questions from lawmakers about safety and the big profits they receive from their methadone clinics. This story air Feb. 14, 2008, on the The Legislature Today. A radio version aired Feb. 15th on the public radio program West Virginia Morning.
I am doing a research paper on alcoholism. I am curious if anyone has any good ideas for some questions about Alcoholism. Could be asked to someone in something such as AA or someone who has recently experienced become sober or even someone effected by it at the current time.
The following are some frequently asked questions about heroin addiction treatment in Alabama and their respective answers. Before planning a heroin addiction treatment for someone in your family or even for yourself it is best to make sure, you read these and research more.
Q1. What does heroin addiction treatment in Alabama really mean?
In different parts of the world, heroin addiction treatment has different implications. This is important to know. In certain regions, this treatment intends getting the person to a level of reduced heroin consumption which can be considered as healthier than the degree of usage that prevailed before the treatment initiated. Although this may not eliminate the person’s heroin usage entirely, it will certainly lower the risk that the substance causes in the person’s body.
In Alabama however, the implication of heroin addiction treatment is that the person is completely released of the usage of the substance. This is in conformation with the addiction treatment program in Alabama. Here treatment means that the person must be completely released of the habit of using the substance.
Q2. In Alabama, is detox always a part of the heroin addiction treatment?
Detoxification is usually included in the heroin addiction treatment in the state. Heroin can affect a person’s overall health badly. It is therefore vital to remove the substance from the body, or there is a danger of several health complications that become probable later on in life.
Detoxification is required because heroin is a highly addictive drug. It is not easy to bring them out of the temptation of the substance till the traces of the substance are removed from the body of the person. This is as like saying that the person cannot be treated out a heroin addiction unless a proper detox program has been carried on.
Q3. What are the different options for heroin addiction treatment in Alabama?
There are two primary options for treating a heroin addiction in Alabama viz. treatment using methadone and buprenorphine. Methadone is a strong form of treatment. On the other hand, buprenorphine uses a much milder approach. When put on a methadone treatment, it reduces the person’s temptation for using heroin. This is due to the fact that methadone itself is an opiate. It is important to know that this substance is addictive too, and hence, the treatment always needs to be provided on an inpatient basis. Importantly, the substance needs to be administered in a very carefully planned routine and under medical supervision.
Buprenorphine is an opiate too, although it is not as addictive as methadone. Therefore, its consumption can be reduced far more easily than methadone’s can. On the whole, it is a faster form of treatment, but it may not work for some of the most intense forms of treatment.
It is important to read about these two forms of treatment and understand them very well while planning for heroin addiction treatment in Alabama. This becomes important because the manner in which the patient recovers will entirely depend on the kind of addiction treatment that has been chosen.
Q4. In Alabama, are all forms of heroin treatment inpatient?
Generally this holds true, but not entirely. In addition, all forms of heroin treatment do not require the patient to stay on an inpatient basis for all the time. If you read above, you will know that people who are put on buprenorphine treatment can live as an outpatient patient, for some part of the treatment.
Although this holds true, it must be remembered that heroin will almost always need a detoxification treatment. This phase of the treatment can be most effective if done inpatient, in the case of heroin addiction treatment. Since the withdrawal will likely be quite strong and there are several subtleties that have to be looked into. Only proper medical care is sufficient to look into these.
Once the detox is completed, the aftercare program that includes the maintenance medication routine can be carried out on an outpatient basis.
Whatever the case may be, it is advisable to get an appointment with a counselor on substance abuse treatment in Alabama and ask them what kind of treatment would do well for the concerned patient. The extent of their addiction and the condition of the patient will largely determine what treatment program will suit them.
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