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You know your loved one has an addiction. You know if they don’t receive professional help, the addiction will only get worse. But how do you convince an addict to take that difficult first step and enter a rehab facility?
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One of the most underestimated consequences of chronic alcohol abuse and alcoholism is brain damage.
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It is easy for families of addicts to assume that if their loved one “fixes” the addiction and substance abuse, troubles within the family unit will go away.
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For those in recovery from substance abuse and alcoholism, changing behaviors is key to maintaining sobriety. This method of therapy involves changing the friends, places and habits that contributed to the presence of addiction and–this is just as important–replacing them with new positive ones.
Friends
In order to succeed, it’s important for those in recovery to surround themselves [...]
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Alcohol affects women and men in different ways for different reasons.
In general, women and men have different body types. As a rule, men weigh more than women and women have less water in their bodies than do men.
This means that for men, the alcohol they consume is more diluted because of the presence of water. [...]
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One of the more difficult and vexing situations that the families of alcoholics must contend with is the unwillingness and downright refusal of an alcoholic to seek treatment.
It seems obvious to everyone – that “Susan” has a serious drinking problem that is negatively impacting everyone and everything around her. Everyone has pleaded with her to [...]
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People who have participated in an in-patient treatment facility for chemical dependency ask this question a lot – “How many of us will relapse?”
It’s natural that a newly recovering addict would want to know his or her odds of staying sober. People wonder if one drink or using on one day, as an isolated incident, [...]
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The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and the American Society of Addiction Medicine recently presented a revised definition of alcoholism: “Alcoholism is a primary, chronic disease with genetic, psychosocial and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. The disease is often progressive and fatal. It is characterized by impaired control over drinking, preoccupation [...]
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Alcoholism, which is also known in the rehab community as “alcohol dependence syndrome,” is a disease that is characterized by the following elements:
Craving
A strong need, or compulsion, to drink.
Loss of control
The frequent inability to stop drinking once a person has begun.
Physical dependence
The occurrence of withdrawal symptoms, such as nausea, sweating, shakiness, and anxiety, when alcohol [...]
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Alcoholism is a primary, chronic disease with genetic, psychological, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations.
Alcoholism is often progressive and fatal. It is characterized by continuous or periodic impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking, most notably denial.
A Primary Disease
The term [...]
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