Sentences with phrase «effects of abstinence»
Although the effects of abstinence on the alcohol - abused brain vary, it appears that we display at least some ability to recover from the effects of excessive drinking.
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It may have to do with Addyi's high pricing (on par with Viagra at $ 26 per pill without an assistance program), its daily intake requirement (unlike Viagra, it adds up to $ 780 per month), its potentially deleterious side effects (low blood pressure and fainting), its restrictions on alcohol consumption (abstinence vs. large quantities not recommended for Viagra patients), a 10 % efficacy rate (whereas Viagra works 50 % of the time compared to a placebo, according to a recent study), and its subtle neurotransmitter - targeting mechanism (contrast that to the obvious hydraulics of Viagra).
While some programs also encourage abstinence or noncoital sex, most are concerned with teaching techniques for «safe sex»; offspring (and disease) are thus treated as (equally) avoidable side effects of sexuality, whose true purpose is only individual pleasure.
The conclusion: given relatively unlimited availability, heroin users will voluntarily stabilize or reduce their dosage and some will even choose abstinence; long - addicted users can lead relatively normal, stable lives if provided legal access to their drug of choice, and with few side effects; and ordinary citizens (in Switzerland at least) will support such initiatives.
Abstinence from Kona, tobacco, and alcohol by many Adventists has afforded a near - unique opportunity for studies to be conducted within that population group on the health effects of Kona drinking, free from confounding factors.
«Our goal was to discover the brain mechanisms responsible for the rewarding effects of the drug and the motivation to seek it even after long periods of abstinence,» says Cowan.
However, a single self - administered infusion of cocaine at the end of abstinence, even after 60 days, fully reinstated tolerance to cocaine's effects in the animals that had binged.
We are particularly interested in uncovering the effects of chronic ethanol exposure and abstinence on the extracellular matrix, on the microtubule cytoskeleton and on the proteome of excitatory synapses.
But the abstinence data we have indicates that while those effects are detectable, they seem to go away after more than three days of abstinence.»
The reinforcing effects of drugs and alcohol make initial quitting and sustained abstinence extremely difficult.
Your cheat day could start off what the researchers at the Addictive Behaviors Research Center of the University of Washington call «the abstinence - violation effect.»
Also known as The Abstinence - Violation Effect, some individuals can feel an overall loss of control after going off the deep - end.
Extreme periods of food abstinence (such as fasting one day and eating ad libitum the next day) may actually have the inverse effects.
Other than a complete abstinence of all tobacco products, there really isn't any type of treatment for Buerger's disease other than simply trying to manage and minimize the damaging effects it will have.
These complementary effects included significant increases in parent — child communication about peer and media influences, in parental monitoring of smoking by children and friends, in parental specification of the disciplinary consequences of initiation, and in parental use of reinforcement to strengthen children's abstinence from smoking.
Anti-smoking socialisation effects were measured on the parent survey in the following categories: (1) parental self efficacy regarding smoking prevention; (2) parental self disclosure of smoking history and experience with addiction; (3) parental explication of negative consequences for initiation of smoking; (4) parental reinforcement of child's abstinence; (5) effort by parent to counter pro-smoking influence from media; (6) effort by parent to counter pro-smoking influence from peers; (7) parental monitoring of smoking initiation by children and friends; (8) parental effort to reduce child's exposure to tobacco smoke in the home; (9) parental action to establish social contracts against smoking with children.
972), which will appropriate funds for programs that provide age - appropriate, medically accurate information on the values of abstinence and the health benefits and side effects of all contraceptives and barrier methods as a means to prevent pregnancy and reduce the risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV / AIDS.
Abstinence - induced withdrawal severity among adolescent smokers with and without ADHD: disentangling effects of nicotine and smoking reinstatement.