{"id":10304,"date":"2017-01-05T07:52:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T11:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vitamins.vitanetonline.com\/?p=10304"},"modified":"2017-01-05T07:52:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T11:52:36","slug":"drinking-on-antidepressants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitamins.vitanetonline.com\/index.php\/drinking-on-antidepressants\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinking on Antidepressants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"richsummary\">\n<p id=\"abstract\">When one suffers clinical depression, he or she should consider cutting out drinking alcohol &#8211; as one ages, the depressant effects of alcohol increase due to the changes in body chemistry. 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