Predictors of 2-year drinking outcomes in a Swedish treatment sample.
BACKGROUND: Few studies have investigated predictors of short- and longer-term outcomes in relatively well functioning treatment samples.
METHODS: Multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to identify predictors of continuous abstinence in 188 individuals during their 2nd year after private 12-step treatment in Sweden, and findings are related [...]
Alcoholism is characterized by a preoccupation with alcohol and impaired control over alcohol intake. Alcoholism is a chronic, often progressive disease. Left untreated, alcoholism can be fatal.
You may continue to abuse alcohol despite serious adverse health, personal, work-related and financial consequences. Alcoholism usually involves physical dependence on alcohol, but genetic, psychological and social factors contribute [...]
Individual drinking habits may be found on a continuum from responsible drinking through alcohol abuse to alcoholism, or physical dependence. There are many signs that may point to an alcohol problem. Drunkenness on its own or solitary drinking does not necessarily indicate alcoholism. The questionnaire will be meaningful to you only if you are honest [...]
Robbie Williams and Anna Nicole Smith have both been hooked on everyday medicines – like millions of others…
A drug addict used to be someone who bought illegal fixes from a shady character in a back alley. But with more and more people admitting addiction to prescription drugs, your ‘dealer’ can be the person you least [...]
What is Millati Islami?
Millati Islami is a fellowship of men and women, joined together on the “Path of Peace:. We share our experiences, strengths, and hopes while recovering from our active addiction to mind and mood altering
substances.
We look to Allah (G-D) to guide us on Millati Islami (the Path of Peace). While recovering, we strive [...]
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Many people in recovery from alcoholism, addiction, co-dependency and compulsive gambling may identify with these points. They may be the victim, the perpetrator or an observer. These reasons apply to heterosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, asexual and transsexual people.
Additionally, just because someone is in recovery does not exclude them from being difficult in relationships.
Why would a [...]
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Brain Has Remarkable Power to Recover from Alcohol Ravages
Excessive alcohol use can literally shrink the brain, impairing memory, learning, and organizational skills. But the brain also can recover most if not all of its capabilities when drinking stops, researchers say.
The Los Angeles Times reported Jan. 22, that studies and thinking tests were used to track [...]
This is a bit like the picture at left – can you see other faces in the flowers and the disease of alcoholism?
Understand the nature of the chemical alcohol, how alcohol affects the alcoholic and the non-alcoholic in different ways, and why the alcoholic continues to drink when drinking is obviously harming them. Learn about [...]
Mental health and personality traits in alcohol-dependent patients: a comparative study.
The aim of this research study was to describe the mental health and personality profile associated with alcohol dependence (alcoholism) and to compare it with those of non-addictive disorders and the normal population.
The groups were;
158 alcohol-dependent patients in treatment,
120 psychiatric patients with non-addictive disorders and
103 [...]
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Growing up in an alcoholic family
“Sometimes I feel like I was raised by wolves,” sighed James, a 55-year-old man who grew up in a home with two alcoholic parents. “I’ve gone through so much of my life guessing at what ‘normal’ is. It’s like trying to find your way through a dark woods without a [...]
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