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Alcoholics Anonymous
Get to know some tricks before you drink and after
you drink, just read the info below.
If you find yourself passed out drunk most
of the time, and want sobriety cards to stop it from
recurring, then you've come to the right page.
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 Hangover
One of the best ways to minimize and sometimes even avoid a hangover is to take vitamin C before you go to sleep. 1000 milligrams is a pretty hefty dose. Some people take more. Alcohol produces chemicals in your blood stream that cause problems in the liver. Vitamin C is an anti-oxidant that can neutralize a significant percentage of the chemicals that cause these effects. Most other vitamins are not of much help.
Drinking fluid before you go to sleep can also help, e.g., a simple soft drink or, better yet, an electrolyte beverage such as a sport drink. Milk and other heavy fluids is questionable.
If you wake up with a hangover, the best thing is an electrolyte beverage. It's a good idea to stock up the shelf with some of the bottled sports drinks for a hangover day, or the powdered electrolyte beverage. In the absence of these, a sweet soft drink will go down easiest, followed by water. Milk is much more likely to come back up.
If you can keep fluids down, then it's good to have some Tylenol in stock.
If you have difficulty keeping food down, then you must start with simple starches such as dry toast. At the other extreme, fats and proteins are hard to digest and are much more likely to come back up.
The main serious risk is dehydration. If you're feeling really bad, you will feel a lot better if you go to the hospital and get a bag or two of fluid intravenously.
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Incidents Over Bad Judgement, or Robbery
Some ex-pats have gotten into trouble when intoxicated. Rarely, but sometimes, it's because a thief takes advantage of your intoxicated nature, especially if you're alone. Usually, it is just judgement related, such as not using a condom with a prostitute, bringing home an unaccountable prostitute who drugs you for a robbery of your home, getting into a brawl, saying regrettable things to others or in public, sending regrettable e-mails and faxes, etc. It helps to understand the effects of alcohol on humans, and set down some rules for yourself before you go drink. Certain drugs can be very harmful or lethal when taken with alcohol.
Long term Effects
Many ex-pats report that they drink more beer here in Thailand during their first year than in previous years combined in their home country. This can result in noticible changes in intellectual performance and personal health. These changes are noticed after they happen, and may take considerable time to reverse.
Chronic alcohol use weakens your immune system,
which can make you more vulnerable to serious diseases.
Apart from all the health problems, alcoholism
affects marriage very severely and alcoholism in teenagers wrecks
their young lives. Alcoholism withdrawal is difficult so it
is best to avoid getting addicted. Best way is never to start
drinking as you never know when you will cross that threshold.
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Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous meets almost every day at the Holy Redeemer Church on Ruam Rudee soi 5, which is off Ploenchit and Wireless Road, near the Ploenchit skytrain station. For more info, call 02-256-6305.
The 12 Suggested Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous
- We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had
become unmanageable.
- Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could
restore us to sanity.
- Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care
of God as we understood Him.
- Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
- Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the
exact nature of our wrongs.
- Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of
character.
- Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
- Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to
make amends to them all.
- Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when
to do so would injure them or others.
- Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong
promptly admitted it.
- Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious
contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge
of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
- Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we
tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these
principles in all our affairs.
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