Read­ing Time: 4 minutesWe are not hard­wired to good­bye let­ter to addic­tion want to drink, but we are hard­wired to want to enjoy the com­pany of oth­er people. My past belief that it was impossible to enjoy dates and din­ners without alco­hol was a myth, and I was the only one who could refute it for myself. Stud­ies in the late 2010s indic­ated a decline in youth drink­ing in West­ern coun­tries, with more than one-fourth of Eng­lish youth in their mid-teens to mid-20s and nearly three-tenths of col­lege-age Amer­ic­ans claiming…

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Read­ing Time: 3 minutesTher­ap­ists in Mas­sachu­setts offer indi­vidu­al ther­apy in a con­fid­en­tial set­ting to help you explore the com­plex factors that have con­trib­uted to your drug addic­tion. Using a tailored approach, your ther­ap­ist sup­ports you and util­izes evid­ence based treat­ment mod­al­it­ies to help you devel­op health­i­er thought pat­terns and beha­vi­ors. We place a strong emphas­is on wel­com­ing res­id­ents with dis­ab­il­it­ies, though our res­id­ents form a true mosa­ic of life, from all cul­tures and walks of life. We are a fam­ily; one that exists to help res­id­ents real­ize for…

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Read­ing Time: 4 minutesAnthony is ori­gin­ally from Bid­de­ford, ME and atten­ded Bent­ley Uni­ver­sity in Waltham, MA where he gradu­ated in 2011 with a Bachelor’s degree in Fin­ance and a minor in Law. He has worked at Clark Insur­ance since 2011, start­ing in the Port­land, ME HQ before relo­cat­ing to Low­ell in 2015 when Clark pur­chased the James L Cooney Insur­ance Agency. A.J.’s role with­in Clark Insur­ance has him work­ing dir­ectly with busi­ness own­ers through­out the Mer­rimack Val­ley to help mitigate/manage risk, spe­cific­ally in the non-profit, con­struc­tion, and property…

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Read­ing Time: 4 minutesAnthony is ori­gin­ally from Bid­de­ford, ME and atten­ded Bent­ley Uni­ver­sity in Waltham, MA where he gradu­ated in 2011 with a Bachelor’s degree in Fin­ance and a minor in Law. He has worked at Clark Insur­ance since 2011, start­ing in the Port­land, ME HQ before relo­cat­ing to Low­ell in 2015 when Clark pur­chased the James L Cooney Insur­ance Agency. A.J.’s role with­in Clark Insur­ance has him work­ing dir­ectly with busi­ness own­ers through­out the Mer­rimack Val­ley to help mitigate/manage risk, spe­cific­ally in the non-profit, con­struc­tion, and property…

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Read­ing Time: 3 minutesMost bruises even­tu­ally dis­ap­pear as the body reab­sorbs the blood, although heal­ing might take longer as you age. If bruises per­sist for a few weeks, it’s best to con­sult a phys­i­cian, as this may indic­ate irre­vers­ible dam­age to the liv­er. We also have the risk of alco­hol-induced seizures, which are com­mon dur­ing binge drink­ing. How­ever, the per­son often can’t recall the events that happened dur­ing an alco­hol­ic black­out, which can include bumps, falls, and acci­dents that may have caused bruises. Excess­ive drink­ing may also lead…

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