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  • Binge drinking on a daily basis can reduce survival rates among individuals with HIV by 6.4 years, a 40-percent decrease in life expectancy.
  • Among current American drinkers aged 12 to 20 in 2010 who had not paid for the alcohol the last time they had consumed, nearly 40 percent got it from an unrelated person aged 21 or older, 16.6 percent from another person younger than 21 years old, and 21.6 percent from a parent, guardian, or other adult family member.
  • Food in the stomach slows the rate of alcohol absorption, but the amount of alcohol absorbed remains the same.
  • Chronic heavy drinking can make individuals more susceptible to pneumonia, lung collapse and pulmonary infections.
  • Alcohol abuse is responsible or a factor in five leading causes of death for American Indians, including motor vehicle crashes, alcoholism, cirrhosis, suicide, and homicide.
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Detoxification

Detoxification is normally the very first step in getting off drugs. It makes it possible for a particular person to be in a supervised setting while they go through withdrawal symptoms for drugs and/or alcohol. There are diverse types of detoxification. Theyvary from drug-free to medically supervised. A widespread mistake that quite a few addicts make is to think that detox is sufficient to kick their habit. This is seldom the case. All detox does is get a person through the withdrawal when they stop using. It is usually recommended that detox be followed up with some type of treatment plan to find out the root of why an individual was using drugs in the first place.

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