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Alcohol and sleep: why falling asleep does not answer every question about rest
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"I. Four different questions about one night"
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"text": "Falling asleep, the night, feeling rested and daytime functioning are separate questions.",
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"II. What is known about alcohol's acute effects"
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"text": "The review abstract reports REM changes and uncertainty in other measures.",
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"III. Acute effects, withdrawal, and recovery are different contexts"
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"IV. Why other explanations need room"
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"V. Medicines and combinations are considered separately"
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"VI. Which help to discuss"
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"VII. When a condition cannot be treated as simply sleep"
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"VIII. Weighing conclusions and respecting a person can coexist"
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"Current danger or urgent medical need takes precedence",
"No self-exposure, recovered-memory instruction, medication change or compulsory calming",
"Language is not jurisdiction; no foreign emergency numbers",
"Author review only; no production acceptance, import, index or publication"
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"author": "Gardiner et al.",
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"role": "Sleep problems may persist during AUD recovery after stopping/reducing",
"limitations": "No deadline, universal stage, safety judgement of new symptoms or home change plan"
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"author": "NIAAA",
"title": "Alcohol-Medication Interactions: Potentially Dangerous Mixes",
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"role": "Particular sedative/opioid combinations and overdose/respiratory risks; discuss actual medicines",
"limitations": "No universal interaction, dose, safe interval or clinical prescription"
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"id": "S5",
"author": "Health Canada",
"title": "About substance use",
"url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/substance-use/about-substance-use.html",
"role": "Physical dependence/adaptation can occur with prescribed use without addiction",
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"role": "Suspected poisoning requires immediate help; loss of consciousness/breathing/seizure risks; stay while help is sought",
"limitations": "No complete emergency list, home procedure, transport or foreign number"
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"id": "S7",
"author": "NHS",
"title": "Alcohol use disorder",
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"role": "Abrupt independent cessation with dependence can be dangerous; discuss a medical plan; severe withdrawal urgent",
"limitations": "No home stopping/maintenance/reduction scheme or advice to drink"
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"author": "VA/DoD",
"title": "2025 Chronic Insomnia Disorder and OSA — Provider Summary",
"url": "https://www.healthquality.va.gov/guidelines/CD/insomnia/I-OSA-CPG_2025-Provider-Summary_final_20250422.pdf",
"role": "Professional CBT-I recommendation; adaptation or delay; patient-centred decisions",
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"id": "S9",
"author": "Francis Bacon",
"title": "Of Studies",
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"role": "Brief epigraph and intellectual analogy of weighing a conclusion",
"limitations": "No historical medical/exercise claims adopted; not a drinking experiment"
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"author": "Confucius / James Legge",
"title": "Analects, BookXV, chapterXXIII",
"url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4094/pg4094-images.html",
"role": "Reciprocity dialogue; short key fragment and bounded help analogy",
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