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What Alcohol Does to Your Body, Brain & Health
When you drink in order to transform yourself, when you drink and become someone you’re not, when you do this over and over and over, your relationship to the world becomes muddied and unclear.
Caroline Knapp • Drinking: A Love Story
The knowledge that some people can have enough while you never can is the single most compelling piece of evidence for a drinker to suggest that alcoholism is, in fact, a disease, that it has powerful physiological roots, that the alcoholic’s body simply responds differently to liquor than a nonalcoholic’s.
Caroline Knapp • Drinking: A Love Story
Thinking of social media as attention alcohol can guide reform efforts. We have a kind of social infrastructure around alcohol, which we don’t have yet for social media ... Perhaps most important, people have developed a common vocabulary around alcohol use: “Who’s driving tonight?”; “He needs to be cut off”; “She needs some water”; “I went to... See more
The Atlantic • Social Media Is Attention Alcohol
Always ensure that you go to sleep sober. Alcohol markedly diminishes sleep quality and affects various hormones that are released during sleep, notably growth hormone.5