In addition, she is a wife, mother, and the successful founder and CEO of Amy Myers MD ®. There’s a bit of truth to the phrase, “sleep it off.” Sleep allows your body to rest and recover. Sleeping won’t physically remove alcohol from your system, however, it will give your body how to flush alcohol out of […]

You’ve had a few drinks at some point in the last 24 to 36 hours, and it’s imperative that you pass this EtG test. As you get older, your liver works more slowly, so it takes longer to excrete alcohol. Many aging adults also take medication that can affect liver function, slowing the process further. […]

However, they are common enough to indicate that growing up with alcoholic parents can impact one’s personality, relationships, and mental health. Living with alcoholic parents creates a stressful and often traumatic environment for children. Even adult children may witness or experience violence, alcohol abuse, neglect, or abandonment from their parents or other family members. This […]

For many working-age adults, alcohol-induced mortality followed a similar pattern over the period, with declines in the 1990s, followed by increases that began in the mid-2000s and continued into the 2010s. This pattern held among White males in the younger working-age group (25–44); White, Black, and Hispanic males and females in the oldest working-age group […]