Lesson 12: Medications And Relapse Prevention - Slide 16
Using Alcohol With These
Drugs Is Dangerous!
- Alcohol Plus Anticoagulants (blood thinners): increases the risk of bleeding except in chronic drinkers where it decreases the action of warfarin
and can cause blood clotting
- Alcohol Plus Antidepressants: impairs mental and physical skills; alcohol increases the action of some and decreases the action of others
Notes:
Pg. 54-55, “Buzzed, The Straight Facts About The Most Used And Abused Drugs From Alcohol To Ecstasy, Second Edition” Cynthia Kuhn, Ph.D., Scott Swartzwelder,Ph.D. and Wilkie Wilson, Ph.D., W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2003
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