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11/19/2025

Learn about substance use and mental health, including risk factors, diagnosis and treatment, how to find help, and resources for more information.

11/19/2025

Ever notice how the exhaustion after drinking feels different? Not sleepy tired, bone-deep, can't-get-off-the-couch tired that no amount of coffee fixes?

That's cellular fatigue. And it's happening because alcohol depletes NAD+, a critical coenzyme your cells need to produce energy. Research shows that even moderate drinking can drop NAD+ levels by up to 50%, and they stay suppressed for days.

NAD+ is essential for converting the food you eat into ATP; the actual energy currency your cells run on. Without it, your mitochondria (your cellular power plants) basically stall out. You're eating, maybe even eating well, but your cells can't turn that fuel into usable energy.

This is why you can sleep 10 hours after a night of drinking and still wake up feeling like you got hit by a truck. Your body isn't resting, it's desperately trying to rebuild NAD+ stores so your cells can function again.
If you're drinking regularly, you're living in a chronic energy deficit. Your cells are running on fumes while trying to repair alcohol damage simultaneously. No wonder everything feels harder.

People who quit often say the energy shift is the most dramatic change. Not jittery energy, deep, sustained, all-day energy. Because their cells finally have what they need to actually work.

You're not lazy. Your cells are just starving.

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11/19/2025

11/19/2025

Although the statistic sounds very grim, there is help available to the non-drinkers in the home. In the “2018 Al-Anon Membership Survey,” an Al-Anon member shared, “Al-Anon has helped me to become a better parent. My children were very little when I joined as a newly single parent. I was very angry, and I was afraid I would take it out on the children. Al-Anon gave me new skills and tools that helped me become more patient and less angry... I am so grateful to Al-Anon for this gift.”

Find out how Al-Anon helps people who grew with an alcoholic parent by reading members’ stories: https://bit.ly/3kbimMc

11/19/2025

For more, visit: Dimensions of wellness: Change your habits, change your life at: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5508938/
"Wellness encompasses 8 mutually interdependent dimensions: physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, vocational, financial, and environmental. Attention must be given to all the dimensions, as neglect of any one over time will adversely affect the others, and ultimately one’s health, well-being, and quality of life."

11/19/2025

11/19/2025

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11/13/2025

In part two of SMART Recovery's advanced strategies for coping with the urges episode they do an advanced role-play to avoid “friendly fire” - those all too common instances when our friends want us to party with them even though we’ve made our decision to quit.

Proudly Produced by RECOVERY TVwww.myrecoverytv.comIn part two of our advanced strategies for coping with the urges episode we do an advanced role-play to av...

11/13/2025

Learn from a board certified addictionologist in an article, "A Brief Overview of Suboxone and the Treatment of Addiction"

In discussing addiction and its treatment with Suboxone, it is important to briefly discuss the current understanding of addiction, as well as current attitudes and opinions. Principles of Addiction Medicine, 4th Edition, the textbook for The American Board of Addiction Medicine, states that “The ...

11/13/2025

Harm reduction is under attack—and when harm reduction loses, people die. “Treatment First/Only” promises a simple fix, but addiction isn’t a light switch th...

11/13/2025

Your brain has a cleaning crew that only works at night. It's called the glymphatic system, it flushes out toxins and metabolic waste during deep sleep. Alcohol destroys deep sleep, so the cleanup never happens.
Research in Science found the glymphatic system is 60% less active when sleep is disrupted, which is exactly what alcohol does. The waste just sits there. Accumulating. Including beta-amyloid proteins implicated in Alzheimer's.

That brain fog after drinking? It's not just dehydration. It's literal neurological waste backup. Your brain is functioning while swimming in its own trash.

If you're drinking regularly, you never give your system a full cleaning cycle. Weekend drinkers operate with perpetual buildup they've normalized as "just how I think."

People who quit report the fog lifts in ways they didn't know were possible. Thoughts sharpen. Memory improves. Not because they got smarter, because their brain finally got to take out the trash. Your brain wants to protect itself. You just have to let it work.

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