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The Ranch to Sponsor Fundraising Event and Workshop About Eating Disorder …
The Ranch offers innovative therapies to address the multidimensional aspects of the whole person while teaching personal accountability in a safe, nurturing, real-life environment. Located … The Ranch is part of Elements Behavioral Health, a family …
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The Ranch Treatment Center Hosts Open House in Honor of its 15th Anniversary
Since 1999, The Ranch has provided comprehensive therapeutic programs that treat the underlying causes of eating disorders, addictions and other self-defeating behaviors. The Ranch offers innovative therapies to address the multidimensional aspects of …
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Recovery spaces, resources available for students looking to maintain sobriety
Miller said Connections serves more than 300 people between the ages of 18 and 30, and works closely with University Health Services, offering Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students classes and counseling services to students who …
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Don't Let the Word "Diet" Scare You
When established patterns begin to cause problems, e.g. unwanted weight gain, elevated cholesterol levels, adult-onset diabetes, etc., some form of intervention is likely to be required. How effective the intervening measures will be depends on …
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'Indirect threats' cited amid push for drug testing of Raymondville students
The proposed policy would require students who test positive for drugs to undergo counseling and be restricted from participation in extracurricular activities. “These are the things I'm having to deal with,” Tristan said of the vandalism. “People tell …
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Risks Of Popular Anxiety Drugs Often Overshadowed
Heroin, cocaine and a widely prescribed class of drugs known as benzodiazepines, or benzos, were found in his system. The drugs first … She says her detox for benzos was far more difficult than it was for the opioid painkillers she was also abusing …
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Family thrives after a year on sugar-free detox diet in 'Year of No Sugar'
"Sugar is eight times more addictive than cocaine,” said Dr. Mark Hyman, author of the 10-Day Detox Diet. "Sugar is the new nicotine. Sugar is the new fat — except fat is not addictive in the way that sugar is. And worse, sugar actually causes …
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Question by TrishaB<3: My father is a diabetic alcoholic?
I don’t know what to do. I am a teenager and I don’t know what to do. He is diabetic and it is terrible for his health but he does it anyway. He promises he will stop and then he goes and drinks any way and when I remind him that he promised me he says ‘sorry’ and acts so sad like someone has done something to him and refuses to look at me. It is incredibly frustrating as he can take control of it but he chooses not to. My mother sees this problem and whines about it but she doesn’t seem to be doing anything to stop it and she herself is starting to drink. If she keeps getting drunk she will not be able to make sure my dad doesn’t suffocate at night in bed or have a heart attack. If he gets too drunk he will not be able to administer insulin to himself properly when his blood sugar rockets or plummets. He will refuse treatment for his addiction because he keeps denying it and he believes it is shameful to seek treatment because people will know. He gets so angry at me just at the thought that I may tell people about his drinking. I don’t know what to do. No one listens to me, no one seems to care.
I just want to go to college and be a normal kid without worrying that I will lose him every day.

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Answer by Alice
Dear, please do not feel worry. You should do whatever to persude hime to quit drinking. It is really bad to the control of blood sugar. If blood sugar level is not controlled, it will lead to a myriad of complications, eye disease, kidney disease, heart disease, etc.
Hope I can help. I work in a hospital and glad to give you any useful information. If you have other questions, you can email to [email protected] . I will do my best to help you walk out of this difficult situation.

'Missing U-21 clash will be the toughest'
The cruciate knee ligament injury means he has played his last underage game for the Dubs, though when his leg collapsed beneath him against Kildare, his own diagnosis was that he had suffered a much less serious problem. "I had no pain, no major …
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Convicted Brewster church arsonist shown sentencing leniency
The so-called dual diagnosis was not properly treated, and went on for years, Finnegan's mother, Susan, said after the hearing. She said her son was prescribed medication for a mental health condition while still a child, and that may have led to his …
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Obstructive Sleep Apnea May Increase Osteoporosis Risk
… a population-based study of a large, nationally representative sample and that it selected only patients who had received dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry prior to being diagnosed with osteoporosis and a polysomnography study prior to being …
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Question by Alex: My father was an alcoholic. Should I seek counseling?
My father was an alcoholic but to be honest I’m not sure if I was affected me that much by it. He had a hard time drinking in moderation probably when I was in middle school and high school and maybe when I was in college (I commuted so if he had a hard time drinking in moderation during that time then I was still living at home when it happened). However I think my dad was pretty good at covering up his habit or perhaps I was just naive. In any case for much of my life I felt like my family was pretty normal and that there was nothing wrong. There were a couple of arguments between my mother and father I remember but he never hit me or anything like that. If anything he was verbally abusive and yelled at me, which perhaps was why I had (have?) such a low self esteem. Now I think he falls under the category of a dry drunk but I’m not sure because it’s only been recently that I heard the term and I didn’t have time to look into the symptoms that much but basically he has a short temper and I always feel like I’m walking on eggshells whenever I’m around him so that he doesn’t have a tantrum. I also avoid situations when we’re alone (in a car or a trip or something). I’m not close to my dad or any member of my family (mom, dad, sister). I don’t know how many of these symptoms are normal and how many are strange. I was also depressed growing up and have bouts of depression now and then. Again, I don’t know if that has anything to do with my father’s habit or not. I might have been depressed regardless of whether he was an alcoholic or not.