Teachers and Addiction

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Teaching can seem like a noble profession. Educating and moulding young minds, and seeing your students grow. However, lofty dreams can run into turbulence. Marching into the real world with newly honed skills and unbridled enthusiasm, but finding oneself overworked, underpaid and terribly stressed.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that educators find solace and relief in self-medicating.

 

High-Stress Levels

People often think that teachers don’t do much. Glorified babysitter, is a common term used to describe teachers. Gone are the days of idyllic classrooms and an apple for the teacher.
Violence, students with entitlement issues, substance abuse among students coupled with the ever-present reality of budget cuts.
The reality today is that helicopter parents and teachers hardly ever catch a break. Students and their parents take no responsibility for the inappropriate behavior of the student and teachers are left to deal with issues themselves…

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When does alcohol withdrawal start?
It differs from one individual to the other. The more heavily you drink alcohol, the more likely you are to be in dire need for alcohol withdrawal.

When an individual has been consuming alcohol heavily for weeks, months, or years, he or she may experience physical and mental issues when they try to stop drinking alcohol. The combination of these uncomfortable effects is called alcohol withdrawal. Symptoms can range from mild to dangerous, depending on the length of use and amount of use.
An individual who has been consuming alcohol for a long period of time, but in limited quantities of irregularly, is unlikely to experience withdrawal symptoms if they stop drinking alcohol. If an individual has experienced alcohol withdrawal once in their lifetime, they are more likely to experience it again when they stop drinking alcohol.

Alcohol withdrawal symptoms such as tremors can last anywhere between three days to several weeks.
The symptoms of alcohol withdrawal tend to start within 6 to 24 hours after the person’s last drink of alcohol.
It depends on how long it takes your body to flush every trace of alcohol. 

Alcohol is a “downer,” as it depresses an individual’s central nervous system. The functioning of the brain slows and it changes the way in which messages are sent back and forth from the brain.
Over time, the central nervous system of the person abusing alcohol adapts to having alcohol in the system all the time. The system works harder to keep the brain in a more awake state and the nerves communicating with one another.
When the individual abusing alcohol stops alcohol use abruptly, their brain stays in high gear and causes alcohol withdrawal symptoms.

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