Sober living

One older study in people with asthma found that over 40 percent of participants said that drinking alcohol prompted allergy or allergy-like symptoms. Most people who have a reaction to alcohol aren’t allergic to it. They don’t have one of the active enzymes needed to process alcohol — alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) or aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH). […]

The recovering person may talk themselves into drinking again by creating a strategy for achieving moderation. A person in recovery with an AUD may justify drinking by avoiding hard liquor and only drinking beer or wine, but unfortunately, the disease does not differentiate, and it’s a slippery slope. To justify drinking, people in recovery might