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2. What Really Happens to Your Body a Week After You Stop Drinking

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   If you’re drinking more than seven drinks a week for a woman or 14 for a man, especially for extended periods of time, consider talking to a doctor first before stopping cold turkey.

3. Alcohol is not good for us. 5 tips to stay safe(r) if you drink

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   Alcohol is used as a social lubricant, maybe more so as holiday festivities approach. But drinking carries health and other risks. Here are five tips to make it safer.

4. Alcohol withdrawal syndrome - Wikipedia

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   Binge drinking is associated with increased impulsivity, impairments in spatial working memory and impaired emotional learning. These adverse effects are believed to be due to the neurotoxic effects of repeated withdrawal from alcohol on aberrant neuronal plasticity and cortical damage.

5. Cold turkey - Wikipedia

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   Sudden withdrawal from drugs such as alcohol, benzodiazepines, and barbiturates can be extremely dangerous, leading to potentially fatal seizures. For long-term alcoholics, going cold turkey can cause life-threatening delirium tremens. [1] In the case of opioid withdrawal, going "cold turkey" is extremely unpleasant but less dangerous.

6. Alcohol detoxification - Wikipedia

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   Alcohol detoxification (also known as detox) is the abrupt cessation of alcohol intake in individuals that have alcohol use disorder. This process is often coupled with substitution of drugs that have effects similar to the effects of alcohol in order to lessen the symptoms of alcohol withdrawal. When withdrawal does occur, it results in ...

7. 6 Major Things That Happen to Your Body if You Stop Drinking ...

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   Scientific studies show that regularly drinking alcohol prematurely ages skin because it decreases dermal carotenoid concentrations (antioxidants that protect the skin from sunlight-induced ...

8. Kindling (sedative–hypnotic withdrawal) - Wikipedia

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   The reason that chronic sustained alcoholism is thought by some researchers to be less brain damaging than binge drinking is because tolerance develops to the effects of alcohol and unlike binge drinking repeated periods of acute withdrawal does not occur, [3] [4] but there are also many alcoholics who typically drink in binges followed by ...

9. 6 ways your brain and body benefit when you stop drinking alcohol

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   “Alcohol is used to help or try to regulate the nervous system when it’s used to soothe anxiety and depression, but we’re learning there are other ways to soothe our nervous system,” says ...