It’s far more rampant than even the experts recognize. Hiding alcohol use is simple.
Wake and bake and chronic thc has also been rampant for decades.
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morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
it’s called a high-functioning alcoholic and it’s not based
miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, I lived like this for maybe thirty years, in between being a junkie. Gave up pretty much all my indulgences the past couple of years because I’m just too old for that shit and the health debt is coming due. I still smoke weed and take the occasional valium. My addictions saw me through a lot of rough patches, and being mostly sober is hard work - but booze and drugs is not a great way to deal with your problems.
Quik@infosec.pub 7 months ago
Keep up the good work :)
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
yep. 4 drinks sounds quite severe too. when the body shakes the morning after drinking, it can be a sign that your body is no longer able to function without alcohol.
detox will need to be medically managed at that point as cold turkey is now life threatening; quitting drinking will seem impossible and yet has now become more urgent than ever
curiousaur@reddthat.com 8 months ago
Not even close. 4 drink base-line does not need to be medically managed. Two day sweat out and you’re reset. You could even have 2 beers the second night and still reset to 0 within the two days.
You don’t hit medically managed territory till your at a bottle or liquor everyday for more than a few days territory.
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Excuse me, NO, this is deadly medical misinfo. Detox is individualized, first and foremost. We don’t know what an individual patient is going to experience when they detox or what complications they could have.
Furthermore, we have no idea what this person is drinking in a day. All we know is that they’re having two to four times the alcohol than the average person drinks when they get sent to detox while drinking in the mornings before their appts with me. 4 just to get to baseline is indicative of severe use disorder, though we cant tell without more info.
shalafi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That describes me and I will never drink before or during work.
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
yeah there’s lots of criteria
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
It’s based as hell dude
PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Based in reality, yes. Based as in the common colloquialism to mean something cool and relatable, no.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
It’s very relatable though
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Cool? No. Relatable? Unfortunately yes for many.
Asswardbackaddict@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Getting fucked up before going to work? Hell yeah. Shaking and sweating by noon? Not so fun.
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, usually by the time you’re in the morning drinking (and not on vacation or something lol).
You’re also in the physical withdrawal symptoms, which can kill people or fuck up their brains
Asswardbackaddict@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Lol. You’re right. I’ll try to be more careful
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s just good advice
null@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
I mean, more than a few drinks a week will fuck up your brain.
groet@feddit.org 8 months ago
More than 0. There is no save amount of alcohol. But almost nothing we do is save. Go outside in the sun? Cancer! Eat fat/sugar? Heart/Liver failure! Stress from work and doomscrolling? Depression and anxiety!
Choose your poison, but know it is poisonous! Cheers 🍻
ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 8 months ago
What constitutes “more than a few” here?
sadbehr@lemmy.nz 7 months ago
By that stage do you drink to get drunk or just to feel ‘normal’/not sick?
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Pff, thats just hypoglycaemia. I need a cookie… or I’m gonna collapse.