Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner: Alcohol Use Disorder - You Just May Have It

Episode Date: July 18, 2015

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You're listening to the Jeff Fisher Show. Hey, it's Glenn, and I want to remind you, peace of mind is tough to come by these days unless you have a Liberty Safe. With a Liberty Safe, you won't worry when you leave the house because you'll know your valuables are protected. And right now, you can get free delivery to your home on any Liberty Safe. Go to LibertySafe.com for factory direct pricing. LibertySafe.com made in the USA, lifetime warranty, and peace of mind. LibertySafe.com. Some of you set your alarms for to get up and listen to the Britsenance.

broadcast. Others still partying. Those of you that set your alarms may have a hangover. You may suffer from what's being termed now as alcohol use disorder. Hmm. Now, do you haven't? Had times when you ended up drinking more or longer than you intended? More than once wanted to cut down or stop drinking. Tried to but couldn't. Spent a lot of time. Spent a lot of drinking or being sick of getting over the after effects, experienced cravings a strong need or urge to drink, found that drinking or being sick from drinking often interfered with taking care of your home or family or caused job troubles or school problems. Continued to drink even though it was causing trouble with your family or friends.

Giving up or cut back on activities that were important or interesting to you or gave you pleasure in order to drink. more than once gotten into situations while after drinking that increased your chances of getting hurt, driving, swimming, machinery, walking in a dangerous area, having unsafe sex, any of these, you may suffer from alcohol use disorder. Continue to drink even though it was making you feel depressed or anxious or adding to another health problem or after having had a memory blackout. had to drink much more than you once did to get the effect you want, or found that your usual number of drinks had much less effect than before. Found that when the effects of alcohol were wearing off, you had withdrawal symptoms, trouble sleeping, shakingness, irritability, anxiety, depression, restlessness, nausea,

sweating, sense things that were not there. Alcohol use disorder. Now, if you watch, I mean, you watch some of the, I'm amazed. What brought this into my mind thinking about this was when you watch television shows, if you have an opportunity to catch some of the television shows, some of the big TV shows, you know, we've banned tobacco from TV forever, so nobody smokes. But so many shows revolve around alcohol. It's amazing.

When you just stop and look, I'm thinking, they're drinking again? So alcohol problems affect almost 33 million adults, and most never sought any treatment. According to a government survey that suggests the rates have increased in recent years. The study, the first national estimate based on the new term alcohol use disorder. And it in the widely used a psychiatric handbook DSM-5, and really seriously who doesn't read the psychiatric handbook DSM-5 that was updated in 2013. Researcher from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism asked 36,000 adults during that year, 2012 and 2013 about lifetime drinking habits, including current or within the past year,

14% of adults were current or recent problem drinkers, nearly 33 million nationally, 30% almost 69 million had some point in their lives had an issue. Now, the University of Missouri broke down the types of drunks into four distinct categories. And this, of course, was published in the Addiction Research and Theory. I mean, who doesn't go over that? The Addiction Research and Theory Journal. Scientists surveyed 187 pairs of undergraduate drinking buddies. Okay?

Now, the findings, you were either a Hemingway, Mary Poppins, Nutty Professor, or Mr. Hyde drunk. The largest group, the Hemingways, which represented about 42% of the subjects, these subjects reported experiencing the smallest decrease in organizational and intellectual skills, and are drinkers who tend not to undergo drastic character changes or experience harms. So if you're a Mr. Hyde drunk, look out. About 23% could be called Mr. Hyde or Ms. Hyde. Since more than half of the subjects who fell into this category were women, meaning they became particularly less responsible, less intellectual,

and more hostile when under the influence of alcohol. And we've all seen that before, haven't we? One fifth earned the honor of being labeled the nutty professor. They were more introverted, more particularly agreeable after drinking. In other words, happy, sweet drunks who don't cause any trouble. Wow. Now, I know what you're asking yourself. I wonder what eye color is the worst or, you know, the best to have.

Well, people with blue eyes really run a higher risk of being alcoholics. A new study out of the University of Vermont suggests that the link not only exist, but it appears to be a genetic one. Wow. This in the American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part B, neuropsychiatric genetics, seriously, these, I mean, hello. You've read that in depth, haven't you?

Yes, of course you have. The researchers find that among European Americans, those with light-colored eyes, such as green or gray in the center, have higher rates of alcohol dependency. Amazing. Now, New York is taking this head on. No more drunk sex, in college anyway. That's, you know, what they're hoping. Good luck guys and gals across New York and soon to be America. Hey, it's Glenn, and I want to remind you, peace of mind is tough to come by these days unless you have a liberty safe.

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