Category: Sober living

However, if evidence-based treatments continue to be only narrowly disseminated and adopted, treatment organizations, some of which are motivated by profit only, may offer treatments that are at best not effective and at worst are harmful (Woodworth and McLellan 2016). Conducting studies in populations with “multi-morbidities” is increasingly recognized as an important area of study....

Activation of spinal cord microglia, mGlu5 spinal cord receptors, and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis also seem to be implicated in the pathophysiology of this alcoholic neuropathy. The goal of treatment is to impede further damage to the peripheral nerves while also restoring their normal physiology. The journal further reports that alcoholic polyneuropathy is likely caused by nutritional...