Stop Drinking

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This is a place to motivate each other to control or stop drinking. It is also a place for non drinkers to discuss and share.

We welcome anyone who wishes to join in by asking for advice, sharing our experiences and stories, or just encouraging someone who is trying to quit or cut down.

Please post only when sober; you’re welcome to read in the meanwhile.

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Alcohol use raises the risks of 61 diseases in Chinese men (www.news-medical.net)

submitted 2 years ago by ColoradoBoy to c/stopdrinking

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In case any of you could use some extra motivation today. This study shows that alcohol increases your risk of many diseases, including ones we haven’t associated with alcohol such as gout and fractures.

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[–] ColoradoBoy 1 points 2 years ago

Health agencies and journalists are finally coming around in most places to admitting there are only downsides to drinking. Most of the studies that showed benefits were flawed in some way, including not screening for people who already ruined their health and then abstained. It’s sometimes referred to as the sick quitter effect.

But drugs are great at making you rationalize almost anything to take more drugs and this particular drug has big money and some very talented marketing behind it.