#BingeDrinking

[xxcarmen-macxx]

God damn I'm no longer taking small shots

I'm chugging straight from the bottle

And I've been drinking since 4pm

And it's 5am now

I shouldn't have alcohol

But if I didn't then I'd be clinging to other vices

Like cigarettes

Like weed

And worst of all like pills

I don't want to get back into that again

And I just got a new prescription to make it even more irresistible

But I haven't thought about taking pills and drinking tonight like I normally would

Is that progress?

It's definitely something though

[eric-sadahire]

Things people do in small towns for fun:

-drive around

-bonfires

-eat at the same 3 restaurants

-drive around a lot more

-go to nearby towns that are bigger

-talk shit

-call their friends to see if they want to drive around

- drugs

[scienza-magia]

Fumare marijuana in età avanzata favorisce l'infarto

La cannabis fa male al cuore, oltre al portafoglio, degli over 65. Due nuovi studi mostrano un maggior rischio di attacchi di cuore e problemi cardiaci negli uomini over 65. La cannabis non fa bene al cuore, soprattutto degli over 65. Gli adulti che, pur non fumando tabacco, consumano marijuana corrono un maggior rischio di attacchi di cuore e infarto, mentre chi usa quotidianamente la cannabis ha il 34% in più di probabilità di andare incontro a uno scompenso cardiaco. A dirlo sono due nuovi studi, presentati dall’American Heart Association (AHA) riunita nella sessione scientifica a Filadelfia, negli Stati Uniti. Attenzione al cuore L’AHA, dunque, mette in guardia dagli effetti collaterali del fumo, ma non si limita a quello tradizionale: il monito degli esperti cardiologi americani riguarda anche lo svapo e soprattutto la marijuana, ritenendola una fonte di pericolo, sia per uso ricreazionale che medico: «Le più recenti ricerche sull’uso di cannabis indicano che fumare o inalare questa sostanza aumenta la concentrazione nel sangue di carbossiemoglobina (monossido di carbonio) e catrame (frutto della combustione) almeno quanto il tabacco. Entrambe le sostanze sono state associate a malattie del muscolo cardiaco, dolori al petto, disturbi nella frequenza cardiaca, infarti e altre condizioni analoghe», ha spiegato alla CNN Robert Page, professore presso il Dipartimento di farmacia clinica, medicina fisica e della riabilitazione alla University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. «I risultati non dovrebbero stupire e anzi vanno presi in seria considerazione, soprattutto ora che si studiano maggiormente gli effetti della cannabis, anche grazie al fatto che c’è una maggiore legalizzazione nei consumi, specie in molti stati degli Usa. Va anche considerato che la sostanza che oggi si trova in commercio non è più quella di 10 anni fa, è molto più potente.  Un report appena pubblicato dall’EMCDDA (l’Osservatorio europeo per le droghe e le dipendenze) ed Europol indica che la potenza media dell’erba è cresciuta del 57% tra il 2011 e il 2012 e quella della resina di cannabis addirittura di poco meno del 200%», spiega Riccardo Gatti, psichiatra e già direttore del Dipartimento Dipendenze presso la Asl di Milano. Boom di cannabis negli over 65 L’appello dei cardiologi americani, infatti, arriva di fronte a un vero boom nel consumo di marijuana, soprattutto tra gli over 65. Secondo uno studio condotto nel 2020 in America, tra il 2015 e il 2018 si è assistito a un raddoppio nel fumo di cannabis negli over 65. Da un altro lavoro del 2023, invece, emerge un incremento del 450% di binge drinking (il consumo di alcolici in modo compulsivo) e marijuana nel periodo tra il 2015 e il 2019, sempre negli ultra 65. A preoccupare è anche l’effetto dipendenza che ne deriva: in circa 3 persone su 10 si verifica il cosiddetto “cannabis use disorder”. «È interessante il campione di over 65: le preoccupazioni, infatti, finora si erano concentrate sui giovanissimi e sui danni psichici. Nella popolazione più adulta, invece, emergono effetti collaterali legati a fragilità diverse, come quelle cardiovascolari», aggiunge Gatti. La dipendenza da marijuana, spesso sottovalutata Secondo l’istituto nazionale per gli abusi statunitense, gli effetti collaterali della dipendenza da marijuana possono andare dalla fame compulsiva alla mancanza di appetito, irritabilità, irrequietezza, difficoltà a prendere sonno o disturbi dell’umore. Ma i problemi possono aumentare in caso di ultra 65enni, come emerge dall’analisi delle cartelle cliniche di chi viene ricoverato per altri motivi ed è un fumatore di marijuana. I ricercatori hanno condotto una serie di analisi su un campione di pazienti ricoverati per problemi come alta pressione, diabete di tipo 2 o colesterolo alto, tipici dell’avanzare dell’età. Cosa può provocare la cannabis negli over 65 Si è scoperto che su 8.535 adulti che avevano fumato erba, il rischio di attacchi di cuore o problemi cerebrali era maggiore del 20% rispetto agli oltre 10 milioni di pazienti che non avevano mai usato marijuana. Il consumo di erba, infatti, aumenterebbe sensibilmente la pressione del sangue, che è uno dei maggiori fattori di rischio per le malattie cardiache. Un secondo studio, condotto su 160mila persone di età media di 54 anni, ha invece mostrato un maggior rischio (+34%) di scompenso cardiaco nei fumatori di marijuana, mentre a inizio 2023 un ultimo lavoro, realizzato a Baltimora (Maryland), ha indicato una maggiore probabilità (33% circa) di problemi coronarici rispetto a chi non ha mai fumato cannabis. Attenzione anche in Italia In Italia la cannabis non è legalizzata, ma è comunque considerata una “droga leggera”: «È un mantra che si ripete da sempre, ma che non ha alcuna base scientifica che lo avvalli.  Anche se non si muore per overdose, rimane una sostanza stupefacente, non innocua e ora gli studi mostrano come nelle persone avanti con l’età possa provocare danni anche gravi», spiega ancora Gatti, che coordina il Tavolo tecnico sulle Dipendenze della Regione Lombardia. L’esperto, infine, non trascura un ultimo aspetto: «Oltre agli effetti del monossido di carbonio sprigionato dalla combustione, che di per sé può incidere sulla pressione arteriosa, negli over 65 la cannabis si può sommare all’assunzione di farmaci legati ad altre patologie tipiche dell’età, come colesterolo, diabete o la stessa alta pressione sanguigna. Il risultato finale può portare a un ulteriore aumento dei rischi», conclude Gatti. Read the full article

[chiarasolems]

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[eurekq]

finding out that unofficial is not a thing at every college and is, infact, a brand of nonsense unique to my stupid fucking university was a bit of a shock

[prettyboypistol]

TF2 Mercs on Your Birthday! TF2 x M!Reader (platonic or romantic)

Scout

Super excited when you tell him your birthday and throws a big(for Scout, anyway.) party with streamers, haphazardly iced cupcakes, and a small little boombox with a mixtape for you!

Tried to make you a cake but fucked up a little bit, so he turned the non burnt parts into cupcakes.

He really does mean well- really! He was so excited to hear about your birthday since you two are kind of close in age! What? You're older than him by a decade! Doesn't matter to him!

Soldier

PICKS YOU UP AND PARADES YOU AROUND LIKE THE BIRTHDAY BOY YOU ARE STAND UP MAGGOTS AND SALUTE THE BIRTHDAY BOY!!!!

Since you and him get on like a house on fire, he gets you a cake and formally celebrates your birthday

As soon as you two start drinking he starts sobbing about how he's known you and doesn't let go of you

Pyro

This video fr

this motherfucker is so fuckin EXCITED for you. They're majorly bouncy and gifting you the best drawings/plushies

Tries his best to stay lucid the entire day. but the stress of trying to make sure your birthday is amazing

Heavy

Doesn't do much for your birthday, but does little things for you throughout the day like sharing with you, joking with you, etc.

He'll tell you happy birthday and buy you a beer at the end of the night as a gift.

Maybe a little handknit scarf or something.

Demoman

HAAAAAPPY BIIIIRTHDAY TOOOO YOUUUUUUUUU

I hope you like bingedrinking and movie watching because he got the day off for both of you and none of those hours are going to be spent sober.

Goes on a rant about how much he loves you and cares deeply about you at like, 5 PM. then falls asleep on your shoulder.

Engineer

Treats your birthday like every other day- after all, he doesn't know how you feel about your birthday.

If you ask for something nice or drop hints that it is your birthday, he'll cook you a nice dinner and make you a little doohickey.

Asks to spend the evening with you just sitting and shooting the shit with you.

Sniper

A lot like Engineer, doesn't bring it up unless you do. He doesn't know if your birthday is a rough day for you so he's not going to ask unless you say something first.

If you're privvy to something though, he'll run into the gas station and get you your favorite candy as a little gift.

Offers to go hunting with you to "Get'cha away from the loud crowd for a bit."

Spy

If he likes you, there will be a bottle of fancy wine at your room's door with a birthday note attached, but he won't mention that it's him(but he will comment about how that bottle must have cost a fortune)

He's the more strong silent type, but if people keep bothering you about things then he'll be your dashing rogue and sweep you away to his smoking room where he'll offer you a marijuana cigarette and some whiskey.

"Why? It's your birthday, after all. Those buffoons give me a headache."

Medic

Probably forgets your birthday, and at your next doctor's appointment when he goes over your file, you correct him and say how old you are, he goes "Oh! Happy birthday!" and continues on.

Secretly he's sad that he missed your birthday and gets you a cupcake or something sweet as a late birthday gift.

hums "happy birthday to you" while operating on you for about a few days.

[thatgirl4815]

Freedom & Corruption, Ep 8

Inspired by @ranchthoughts’ post discussing boundaries and crossing those boundaries, I was thinking about the ways these characters interpret the idea of “freedom." That intersection creates an interesting contrast for the core characters.

Ray, Mew, and Alcohol

For Top and Mew, the idea of freedom is especially interesting given their differences in lifestyle. Top has maintained a level of sexual promiscuity—freedom, if you will—that Mew has rejected for much of his adult life. The same goes for drug habits. Mew, then, comes across as a character so deeply entrenched in his own values that his idea of “freedom” varies significantly from other characters. 

What’s interesting is that in his current state of bitterness, Mew seems to crave this idea of “freedom” that he’s witnessed in other characters, most notably Ray. But I think Mew knows intrinsically that Ray drinking himself into oblivion only gives the appearance of freedom—it is far from it. If anything, I’d argue Ray’s habits are the greatest sign of his lack of freedom; he’s bound to alcohol and drugs. They’re restricting his freedom, yet Mew desires Ray’s lifestyle to let go. That’s the terrible irony of drugs and alcohol—what starts as freedom from pain can bind one to it permanently; a temporary freedom becomes a permanent dependence. Mew knows this, and he desires the temporary escape, even as he knows that Ray himself has gone far beyond the temporary. I don’t think Mew is scared of forming that same dependency because he’s confident in his own control in a way that Ray never has been.

Mew has something of a superiority complex, at least compared to Ray, and it’s informing their current dynamic just like their old one. Mew is giving in to Ray’s habits, but he hasn’t fallen to Ray’s level yet—not truly. Top and Cheum fear the same thing happening to Mew that happened to Ray, when that freedom becomes destructive (more on that below).

Ray and Sand

If Ray is bound to this corruptive lifestyle, then his freedom is reasonably limited. He couldn’t control what happened to his mother anymore than he can control what is happening to him (or so he believes...I think the belief that he has no control does more damage than his actual lack of control). So where does he have control? Where can he find freedom? Sand.

“When I’m with you, I’m so damn happy.”

^This happiness is the temporary relief Ray seeks in alcohol, even as it is corrupting him. But Sand doesn’t have any of those same destructive side effects. Sand is a healthy escape. Sand, in many ways, represents freedom from the pain Ray is facing. Ray wants to establish control over the freedom Sand offers, because control over Sand is ultimately much more attainable than control over his other form of escape: drugs/alcohol. 

Top and Cheum

@waitmyturtles addresses this in excellent detail here, but I wanted to include Top and Cheum’s perspectives on freedom versus corruption here. They immediately see Mew’s behavior as the latter, which I find especially ironic for Top, given that he drinks and does drugs himself. If it was someone else in the group, like Boston or even Cheum, I think we would not see this same reaction. Mew has expressed such disapproval of bingedrinking and drug use that the other characters immediately react negatively to his interest in it. 

I don’t want to say they’re invalid for showing concern, because it is concerning to see a friend with such rigid values reject those values completely; however, the way they go about it is encroaching on Mew’s freedoms. Inviting Top to Mew’s party was a low blow from Cheum, and I still can’t fathom why she thought that was a good idea. 

I'm still pretty new to the squad, but I touched on the concept of ephemerality and permanence, so I’m going to tag the ephemerality squad here! :) @slayerkitty @ranchthoughts @chickenstrangers @lurkingshan @twig-tea @distant-screaming @clara-maybe-ontheroad @neuroticbookworm @elizabethsebestianhedgehog @waitmyturtles

[charlattehotte]

ibd is infuriating because how do i casually say "i miss clubbing and bingedrinking and only being in like 5/10 pain the next day instead of being in 8/10 pain the second i cross over from drunk to hungover, having GI issues for like 5 days after, and getting paranoid that im about to shit blood again" like thats UNHINGED. what the FUCK.

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[kiwi--kitten]

I went on vacay and got drunk a lot last week and have been feeling mentally slow for days. What happened inside of my head?

PET scans prove that endorphins bind to opiate receptors which cause those good feels from getting drunk. Since endorphins act on the opiate receptors in our brains, they reduce pain and boost pleasure, resulting in a feeling of well-being – in evolutionary terms, we developed endorphins to help fuel us bit by bit when hunting game or collecting food. An interesting connection to make here is that this is also why we feel good when we exercise – yes, we all know the answer is endorphins; But, the fascinating aspect is why we developed them: if it weren’t for the release of endorphins during our primitive human stages, we would not have been able to push ourselves to search for food when hunger and exhaustion set in.

But I digress,

What’s going on in the brain?

Alcohol stops the chemical signals between neurons which causes an immediate result of intoxication. Intoxication includes feelings, which we’re all familiar with, such as:

-impulsivity

-slurred speech

-poor memory

-sluggish reflexes

This happens because the functions of the occipital lobe (responsible for visual processing) temporal lobe (responsible for processing auditory perception,) and frontal lobe (does a bunch of different stuff, but primarily considered the emotional control center and home of our personality) all experience temporarily decreased capability and strength. The parietal lobe (which processes sensory information) also becomes impaired which leads to a disruption of fine motor skills and reaction time. We’ve all had a night or two that we can’t quite remember – this happens because the hippocampus, the brain region that helps make new memories, is unable to function correctly on alcohol and thus results in temporary loss of (new) memory. Essentially, alcohol obstructs the capabilities of many different parts of your brain while also damaging neural brain pathways– ultimately causing you to feel disoriented, confused and even sick.

However, in the long term our brains adapt to the blocked signals by overcompensating once alcohol leaves the system. It does this by continuing to over-activate neurotransmitters which can cause painful withdrawal symptoms (hello hangovers) which can damage brain cells. This type of brain damage is exasperated by drinking binges or sudden withdrawals.

In the long run, brain matter will also become damaged from heavy alcohol consumption in the form of “brain shrinkage” which is a reduction of cell bodies and cell pathways (gray matter and white matter.) Clusters of gray matter in a brain have been thought to show the intelligence of a particular individual, with a higher concentration of gray matter showing greater intelligence. For example, when Albert Einstein passed away his brain was studied and proved to show very high concentrations of gray matter – this stuff is important, take care of it!

The prefrontal cortex, responsible for the “higher functions” of cognitive processing (such as problem solving, impulse control) are most vulnerable to damage – so alcohol-related issues tend to be more serious once they affect this part of the brain. This is also why we hear that teenagers should not drink: their frontal lobes are still developing and are sensitive to any damage. Interestingly so, cognitive deficits are heightened by malnutrition- especially when a deficiency of vitamin B is present. (Side note, apparently this is a very common deficiency in alcoholics. If you’re a heavy drinker, talk to your doctor about taking a high vitamin B supplement.)

Alcohol remains in your urine for about 80 hours and will be found in your hair follicles for as long as three months.

Did my glass of wine make me dumb?! Our brains are incredibly plastic. In simple terms this means that our brains are constantly adapting to our surroundings and are a very living thing. The good news is that if started in time, abstaining from alcohol can actually reverse most of the physical damage caused by hard core drinking.

For most people, your brain can heal – just make sure you actually give your brain a break from booze. BUT! Keep in mind, studies have shown that relapsing into heavy alcohol consumption (think binge drinking) will reverse the regeneration and healing that occurred after a period of abstinence. In very heavy users, most valuable cognitive improvements begin after a full year of alcohol abstinence.

Long story short: never binge drink – and if you must, say for a birthday or celebration, then give yourself a long time to heal and detox.

https://www.nm.org/healthbeat/healthy-tips/alcohol-and-the-brain https://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/education/bcr/addiction-research/alcohol-effects-brain-ru-515

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/this-is-your-brain-on-alcohol-2017071412000

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[skeletonstaff]

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[chiarasolems]

Ci sono frasi che fanno male, fanno arrabbiare, fanno sentire frustrati: 1. Usa la forza di volontà 2. Sei un caso cronico 3. Alcune persone guariscono, altre si devono accontentare 4. Tutto si risolve coi farmaci 5. Dovresti mangiare meno/meglio/di più 6. Segui questo schema alimentare 7. Non stai davvero male 8. E' tutto nella tua testa 9. Basta volersi bene! ... E' solo una selezione di parole che mi sono state rivolte da psicologi, psichiatri, neurologi, dietologi e da persone di vario genere. 1. LA FORZA DI VOLONTA' non basta, chi sta male ha fondamentalmente una più prepotente forza di autodistruzione, occorre aiutare chi soffre ad esprimere il proprio dolore e cercare motivazione, stimoli che aiutino nel processo di cura 2. La diagnosi di cronicità è spesso una scusa per chi non è in grado di aiutare 3. Nessuno deve accontentarsi, mai. Ci sono tante strade da percorrere, la psichiatria e la psicologia non sono scienze esatte, e ognuno ha il suo percorso 4. I farmaci possono essere una stampella ma non sono la cura: non risolvono la causa ma trattano il sintomo 5. Mangiare meno o mangiare meglio o di più sono banalità che chiunque soffre di disturbi alimentari conosce: anche questo approccio si concentra sul sintomo e non sulla causa 6. Seguire uno schema alimentare, una dieta, non è indicato, perchè non dà a chi soffre gli strumenti per cambiare consapevolmente: la rieducazione alimentare è la strada che può davvero aiutare 7. Il malessere è soggettivo: se una persona soffre, dobbiamo accogliere la sua sofferenza e ASCOLTARLA 8. Nella testa di chi sta male ci sono mille voci, chi sta male non riesce a distinguere facilmente quale sia quella "sana" 9- Volersi bene è una frase fatta che non ha attinenza con la devastante realtà dei disturbi alimentari. ❤️ CAMBIARE È POSSIBILE. Francesca #anoressia #bulimia #binge #obesity #obesità #disturbialimentari #dca #vita #ortoressia #donne #uomini #uominiedonne #insieme #cura #lacura #disordinialimentari #vigoressia #sportcompulsivo #shoppingcompulsivo #alcolismo #aa #bingedrinking #tanoressia #cleptomania #disturbisessuali #dipendenzaaffettiva #ossessioni #ed #ansia #depressione (presso MondoSole anoressia bulimia binge disturbi alimentari (dipendenze)) https://www.instagram.com/p/CldU4o3IfxG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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