Recovering alcoholics with poor sleep perceptions will likely relapse:
"The usual perception of alcohol's effects on sleep in nonalcoholics is that it helps sleep," explained Deirdre A. Conroy, the corresponding author who conducted the research while a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan. "In truth, alcohol may help people fall asleep but it usually leads to poor quality sleep in the second half of the night and overall less deep sleep. As people drink more regularly across nights to fall asleep, they become tolerant to the sedating effects of alcohol and subsequently use more alcohol each night to help fall asleep. This escalation in drinking can lead to alcoholism."
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First it was cancer, then AIDS, now with the release of a new study showing once again the astonishing prevalence of a serious disease that gets meager attention in this country, one is forced to ask:
Cassio. ...O strange! Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.
Iago. Come, come; good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used; exclaim no more against it.
Let me make this clear, for like the millionth time: