Saturday, February 22, 2014
Friday, February 21, 2014
February 21 v 16 TWELVE STEPPING WITH POWER IN THE PROVERB
The person who strays away from common sense will end up in the company of the dead .
STEP 11 -We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God ,praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
Unfortunately this Proverb is true ! How many of our brothers and sisters have moved on from this physical world into the spiritual prematurely. I am almost positive before they took their finals steps here that their inner voice was warning them .Some call it that nagging feeling in the gut. We must learn to never ignore that inner voice or as the Proverb would call it common sense .If your at step 11 congratulations but don't get prideful because a fall can be right around the corner. Step eleven is a great opportunity for us to fine tune that inner voice , and never ignore common sense .
What are your thoughts ? On the inner voice and common sense !
Jesus said I am the truth ,the life the way no one comes unto the father but through me.
Heavy Drinkers Found to Reduce Drinking with Anti-Epilepsy Drug
By Join Together Staff | February 20, 2014 | Leave a comment | Filed in Addiction, Alcohol, Research & TreatmentNew research shows that an anti-epilepsy drug may help heavy drinkers reduce their alcohol consumption, says HealthDay.
In a study that included 138 heavy drinkers, one half took the drug topiramate (Topamax) for 12 weeks at a maximum dose of 200 milligrams a day. The other half were given an inactive placebo. Both groups had brief counseling to help them decrease their drinking.
At the end of the 12-week study, placebo group patients were five times more likely to have had a heavy drinking day than those in the Topamax group. Also, compared to the placebo group, more than twice as many patients who took the drug had no heavy drinking days during the last four weeks of the study.
In a press release from the University of Pennsylvania, the study’s lead author, Henry R. Kranzler, MD, professor of Psychiatry, director of Penn’s Center for Studies of Addiction, says that the results represent an important next step in understanding and treating problem drinking. He added, “Our study is the first we are aware of in which topiramate was evaluated as a treatment option for patients who want to limit their drinking to safe levels, rather than stop drinking altogether.”
Researchers suggest that this could help lead to personalized treatments for heavy drinkers, as well as additional research to support patients who struggle with heavy drinking.
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