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How does having a drink help a person relax?

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Judith Welles Cousins
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, private practitioner
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Judith has worked in the field of mental health and substance abuse since 1988,  She received her Masters in Social Work from Virginia Commonweatlh University in 1991 and was licensed as a clinical social worker in 1994.  In her private practice, Judith sees adults, families, children and adolescents, and couples. She addresses such issues as substance abuse, depession, anxiety, family discord, couple conflict, poor school performance, and  life transitions. Judith believes that within each individual, family, and couple are the resources to change, heal, and thrive.  Through the process of psychotherapy, she assists clients to identify and use these resources to gain personal and relational well-being.      

How does having a drink help a person relax?

In this video, Judy Cousins, Clinical Social Worker, will provide answers to questions regarding reasons to quit drinking. Judy will include information regarding the nature of alcohol use, the positive and negative consequences of use, and effective strategies for quitting drinking.

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Host: How does having a drink help a person relax?

Judith W. Cousins: When a person has a drink, what happens to them physiologically, is that their nervous system starts to slow down a bit and chemically the front part of their brain, the prefrontal cortex that s the place where we regulate our emotions and regulate our behavior and when we start to drink then our inhibitions start to calm down a bit, start to loosen up. So, that helps people to relax.

The other piece of that is psychological. When people are in a situation where they are having a glass of wine or a beer, just the idea of being with friends or just the idea for sitting down and having a beer watching a football game, that helps them to relax as well. So, there is a psychological, social and physiological reason.

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