November 2010

Screening and Brief Intervention for Alcohol Abuse

On a fairly regular basis doctors fail to identify people with alcohol use disorders. This failure is often due to simply not asking the right questions. The consequences of such [...]

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Problems Relating to Drinking

Excessive Drinking Alcohol depresses your central nervous system. In some people, the initial reaction may be stimulation. But as you continue to drink, you become sedated. Alcohol lowers your inhibitions [...]

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Acute Alcohol Withdrawal

Acute alcohol withdrawal symptoms Symptoms may vary depending on the individual. There may be mild or severe symptoms, and some may need close inpatient, or medical supervision. Serious withdrawal symptoms [...]

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Problems Caused By Alcohol

Both alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence can cause many different types of problems that can disrupt a person’s life. They include health, emotional, social, work or school, and financial problems. [...]

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New Face of Codependency

Virginia Satir, a key figure in family systems theory, studied more than 10,000 families and discovered that 96 percent of them exhibited codependent thoughts or behaviors. “The more current definition [...]

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Defenses and Denial

Being in recovery means we don’t need or want to lie to ourselves. Denial is our escape from reality, our fantasy. It’s lying to ourselves. All is fine, and we [...]

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Healing from Co-dependency

The concept of ‘co-dependency’ (also called ‘co-alcoholism’ when alcoholism is involved) refers to an unhealthy pattern of relating to others that results from being closely involved with an alcoholic or [...]

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Issues of Alcoholic Families

Adult Children of Alcoholics - Alcoholism runs in families and children of alcoholics run a higher risk of developing alcoholism than children in the mainstream of the population. Adult children [...]

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Characteristics of ACOA by Janet G. Woititz

In 1983 author Janet G. Woititz listed, in her book “Adult Children of Alcoholics”, thirteen characteristics most adult children have in common. This list is also known as the “A.C.O.A. [...]

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Al-Anon Can Help Resolve Some of the Past Family Issues

We can easily recognize how alcohol affects the drinker. It’s not as easy for family and friends to recognize how the drinker’s behavior has affected them. These questions put together [...]

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Alcoholism And Its Effect on The Family

Alcoholics can be of any age, background, income level, social, or ethnic group. Very often alcoholism affects highly educated people. Several studies even showed that people who lack motivation are [...]

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Core Issues For Children of Alcoholics

The phrase Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA) refers to those individuals who were adversely impacted by familial alcoholism. An ACOA is an individual who experiences a recognizable, diagnosable reaction to [...]

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How to Let Go ?

In their book: “It’s So Hard to Love You”, Bill Klatte and Kate Thompson provide us with some ideas as to how to “let go” in a loving way. Some [...]

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Low Risk Drinking Guideliness

Guideline #1 Do not drink when: operating a boat, motor vehicle, tools or machinery; using medications that interact with alcohol; engaging in sports or other potentially dangerous physical activities; working; [...]

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Understanding Addiction

Understanding Addiction Addictions come in all shapes and forms. Difficult to define exactly, it has become popular to think of almost any behavior that has a compulsive quality as an [...]

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Parenting Teens Who Have Addictions

Firm vs. Angry Finding out that your teen is addicted to drugs is emotionally devastating. Your first reaction may be anger toward your son or daughter. After the anger, though, [...]

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Help Others, Help Myself.

You have tried to help a loved one who is abusing alcohol, drugs or gambling, and you are beginning to feeling frustrated, confused and hopeless? It seems that no matter [...]

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COPING SKILLS: Mind Body and Spirit

Stress is non-discriminating, and integral part of everyone’s life. Coping with stress comes naturally for all of us. We successfully deal with most of our stressful experiences. The problem is [...]

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