It’s a term the media came up with for a new practice by young adults: skip eating and drink more alcohol. The unhealthy practice serves a couple of major purposes. Young women can keep their weight down and young men can have more money to drink, although these purposes cross genders as well.

The word itself combines the concept of being drunk with anorexia, an emotional disturbance that causes a person (usually female) to become obsessed with losing weight by refusing to eat.

In another variation of drunkorexia, young women binge drink, binge eat and then vomit up the food, a form of bulimia.

It’s not hard to see that these practices could be very hard on a young person’s health in a number of ways.

•    Since there is no food in the stomach, the drinker will absorb the alcohol into the bloodstream far more quickly, meaning the person will get drunk faster on less alcohol
•    The person will naturally run a greater risk of alcohol poisoning
•    Vital organs will take a harder hit when the body is poorly nourished.

Experts state that drunkorexia is a form of addiction: that compulsion to be thin added to an addiction to alcohol. This is a growing problem on college campuses where alcohol consumption was already rampant. At the University of Texas School of Public Health, a study found that there has been more binge drinking among young men and women in the past ten years.

To recover normal behavior and health again, a person will need to handle both the compulsion toward anorexia and the addiction to alcohol.

At Narconon Arrowhead Those In Recovery Address Physical & Mental Damage

Narconon Arrowhead is a premier drug rehabilitation center located near McAlester, Oklahoma. On this spacious property overlooking Lake Eufaula, participants in the rehab program not only learn how to face life without drugs, they also learn how to improve their health. As soon as they walk in the door, they are given nourishing food on demand and nutritional supplements to help support them through the withdrawal process tolerably.

Soon after, each person goes through a strict procedure to detoxify the body of old alcohol and drug residues that can contribute to foggy thinking and a poor outlook. Each person maintains a strict regimen of nutritional supplements, moderate daily exercise and spends time a low-heat sauna. A normal diet and lifestyle are encouraged to optimize detoxification.

While good health and diet are an important part of recovery, it is sound and stable life skills that will help keep each recovering person safe after graduation. So each person learns how to choose friends and associates who will help them maintain that drug-free life and how to eliminate others from the scene, how to turn any situation around to a positive one, how to regain one’s personal integrity and other life skills. There is even a common-sense moral code that helps each person plot a sober future.

At the end, each person has a brighter outlook, understands how to make sober choices, has reduced cravings through detoxification and has restored their own personal moral code. They are well set up to plan their path after graduation.

Around the world, the Narconon program offers these improvements to individuals in Russia, Italy, Taiwan, the UK, Australia and other countries. In the US, Narconon Georgia, Narconon Florida and centers in both Northern and Southern California also offer this long-term program.

For information on the Narconon Arrowhead facility, call 1-800-468-6933.

References:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/drunkorexia-alcohol-mixes-eating-disorders/story?id=11936398&page=3#.T30WmnhSFSU
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/18/drunkorexia-health_n_1017347.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111017171506.htm