Everyone knows about the harmfulness of smoking. Governments try to make smoking more uncomfortable and expensive, and entire industries live by the hope of wanna-be non-smokers, claiming to make the quitting easier and more bearable. And yet, most find it utmost difficult to stop smoking. But whenever pure self-discipline, the power of chemistry and pharmacology […]
Research has shown that, for men over 40 and women after the menopause, having one or two small drinks a day can help prevent coronary heart disease. However, it is estimated that most of the people are risking their health by drinking more than the recommended daily amount of alcohol. In the alcohol-related German-lanauge part […]
Antidepressants are now the best-selling drugs in the USA – and their consumption has doubled in the last 10 years. This was established by a meta-analysis of studies from 1996 to 2005 among 50,000 children and adults and published in the Archives of General Psychiatry. Currently 10 percent of Americans – about 27 million people […]
Ab wann hat man nach medizinischen und psychologischem Fachverständnis eigentlich tatsächlich ein Alkohol-Problem? Da sowohl von Klienten als auch im Diskussions-Forum meiner Website diese Frage regelmäßig aufkommt, hier ein kurzer Abriß der Kriterien, nach denen üblicherweise “Alkoholismus” bzw. Alkohol-Abhängigkeit definiert wird. “Alkoholismus” stellt heute eigentlich keinen genauen wissenschaftlichen Begriff mehr dar. In der Diagnostik wird […]