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CBD AND ALCOHOLISM: All You Need To Know About CBD OIL and Alcoholism
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About CBD AND ALCOHOLISM: All You Need To Know About CBD
The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD) estimates that 17.6 million Americans suffer from some degree of alcohol abuse. That’s about 1 in every 12 U.S. adults, in case you were wondering. A scary statistic, no matter how it’s interpreted.In order to understand how cannabidiol (CBD) works to alleviate the effects of addiction and subsequent withdrawal, we need to first understand how alcohol itself functions to develop and implement a neurological basis of reliance.In short, alcohol addiction affects the neurotransmission capabilities of ‘reward structures’ within the brain: most notably, structures such as the nucleus accumbens, amygdala, basal forebrain, and anterior cingulate cortex.In healthy individuals (i.e. non-alcohol abusers), these structures play a functional role in implementing normal “self-care” behavior; that is, if we’re unhappy or unsatisfied, they let us know that a behavioral change is probably in order.In the case of alcohol abusers, this requisite behavioral change is entirely bypassed by the consumption of alcohol, wherein the brain’s reward structures are “overridden” in order to supplant the desired feelings of happiness and satisfaction.Alcohol use disorder (which includes a level that's sometimes called alcoholism) is a pattern of alcohol use that involves problems controlling your drinking, being preoccupied with alcohol, continuing to use alcohol even when it causes problems, having to drink more to get the same effect, or having withdrawal symptoms when you rapidly decrease or stop drinking.Unhealthy alcohol use includes any alcohol use that puts your health or safety at risk or causes other alcohol-related problems. It also includes binge drinking — a pattern of drinking where a male consumes five or more drinks within two hours or a female downs at least four drinks within two hours. Binge drinking causes significant health and safety risks.
