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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Guess I’ll spoon feed you

    https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sheets/understanding-alcohol-use-disorder

    In the past year, have you:
    

    -Had times when you ended up drinking more, or longer, than you intended?
    -More than once wanted to cut down or stop drinking, or tried to, but couldn’t?
    -Spent a lot of time drinking, being sick from drinking, or getting over other aftereffects?
    -Wanted a drink so badly you couldn’t think of anything else?
    -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?
    -Given up or cut back on activities you found important, interesting, or pleasurable so you could drink?
    -More than once gotten into situations while or after drinking that increased your chances of getting hurt (such as driving, swimming, using machinery, walking in a dangerous area, or unsafe sexual behavior)?
    -Continued to drink even though it was making you feel depressed or anxious or adding to another health problem? Or after having had an alcohol-related 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, such as trouble sleeping, shakiness, restlessness, nausea, sweating, a racing heart, dysphoria (feeling uneasy or unhappy), malaise (general sense of being unwell), feeling low, or a seizure? Or sensed things that were not there?

    -Any of these symptoms may be cause for concern. The more symptoms, the more urgent the need for change.
    


















  • My SiL works with temporary foreign workers in Canada for one of the companies that is considered to be the best in how they treat their employees. Those workers are unionized and their employer had to limit them to 75h/week as they were asking to work even more than that… In a sense I kinda can understand them, they’re here to work and don’t know anyone except for their coworkers, some of whom they share an apartment with, and they don’t speak the local language so might as well be paid all day instead of being at home in front of the TV waiting for your next shift…