alcoholism

I saw this editorial in the Sunday New York Times. Drinking by the Numbers For me it is interesting because I gave up alcohol about a year ago although I have had a about 5 drinks in the last 15 month period. I mainly gave it up because I was finding quantity I was drinking was creeping up...

Disease or not, we can all agree that alcoholism is a serious problem. The idea that alcoholism is a disease was largely popularized by Alcoholics Anonymous, to my understanding. Many doctors and alcohol/drug addiction specialists agree that alcoholism is a disease. However, not everyone agrees...

Why do people insist AA is not religious?/Efficacy of AA & other treatment programs I'm dealing with a spouse who has alcohol issues. His first therapist (social worker) told him to go to a Beginner's AA meeting, and to "Keep An Open Mind." He went, and was instantly uncomfortable. Not only...

I was living in the same apartment complex with a man who was an alcoholic who had not had a drink in one year. He was also a coworker. One day he fell off the wagon and came to work drunk. I had been visiting him at his apartment and I left after he had started drinking. Ok he of course got...

I often read about native Americans who are unable to handle alcohol. The trouble is I also know many people of Northern European ancestry who can't handle their drink either. Are the aboriginies of America truly less capable of drinking socially or is this just propaganda. I've read alcohol...

The Chief Medical Officer in England, following similar plans in Scotland, has put forward a proposal to set a minimum price on a unit of alcohol to curb peoples' consumption. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/02/scotland-drinking-proposals http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7944334.stm...

Interesting article... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7768141.stm Anyone know anything more?

I came across this article today about a man who got 8 years in prison after 19 DUIs: http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080220/NEWS01/802200357/-1/CINCI The sentence is well deserved. Here's what the prosecutor had to say: (Emphasis mine). So what are the thoughts of...

First off I want to say I am not saying this about everyone who is religious. Sometimes I like to talk to a co-worker of mine, a nice old guy who loves to talk about philosophy. We've talked about a lot of issues but when it gets into the bible he goes on about how one must be 'obedient' to...

AVRT stands for "addictive voice recognition therapy" and is espoused by Rational Recovery - like the AA insofar as it's for alcoholics, but seemingly diametrically opposed to the methods to be used.... here they provide a brief summary of AVRT (it just sounds a bit like cognitive behavioural...

Hello; I am taking a look for treatments of alcoholism. A friend needs help and I think he is not well enough to choose correctly, so I started looking at the state of current treatments. I have found one clinic in my country which offers what seems miraculous results in 3 days. I am quite...

I dont believe Obesity is disease. One in three Americans is 20 or more pounds overweight (obese)... it just sounds like a few people just have poor diet and little or no exercise. I dont believe that 1 in 3 Americans who eat just as much food as the rest of Americans have some kind of...