High functioning alcoholics – what exactly is a high functioning alcoholic and is a high functioning alcoholic different than any other alcoholic? The answer to the latter part of this question is, “No.” Alcoholism is one of the chronic, often relapsing brain diseases of addiction. High functioning is a term that people use to describe… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: October 2009
The Oprah Winfrey Show – The Diane Schuler Story
I watched The Oprah Winfrey Show – The Diane Schuler Story, yesterday, and I was struck on so many, many fronts, but the two I’m going to talk about in this post have nothing to do with the Diane Schuler Story. They relate to the portions of the show that followed that segment. [Beyond] The… Continue Reading
Palo Alto Online Palo Alto Weekly: Guest Opinion: A new kind of Independence Day 0×2085 recent research on alcohol dependence and the brain (July 3, 2009)
by Lisa Frederiksen While the 4th of July has long past, the thoughts expressed in this Guest Opinion of mine are still relevant, today. Palo Alto Online Palo Alto Weekly: Guest Opinion: A new kind of Independence Day 0×2085 recent research on alcohol dependence and the brain (July 3, 2009).… Continue Reading
The Danger of Promoting the Lesser Evil
This is a guest post from The Discovering Alcoholic, who writes a top rated recovery blog, www.discoveringalcoholic.com, covering alcoholism, substance abuse, treatment and recovery issues. The Jesuit priest Baltasar Gracián wrote, “Never open the door to a lesser evil, for others invariably sneak in after it.” As a recovering alcoholic, this statement rings particularly true… Continue Reading
Links This Week
College Alcohol Usage and Behavioral Change: Local and National Study Presented On Oct. 14, Nancy Barnett, from Brown University and the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, lead a short seminar on “Alcohol use and related risk behaviors in college students: local data and national context.” About 50 students and professors attended the event that… Continue Reading
Links This Week
College Alcohol Usage and Behavioral Change: Local and National Study Presented On Oct. 14, Nancy Barnett, from Brown University and the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, lead a short seminar on “Alcohol use and related risk behaviors in college students: local data and national context.” About 50 students and professors attended the event that… Continue Reading
Bring Change 2 Mind – Help for People With Mental Illness
Bring Change 2 Mind – bring change 2 mind.org – is a powerful program created in 2009 by Glenn Close, the Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation (CABF), Fountain House, and Garen and Shari Staglin of IMHRO (International Mental Health Research Organization). They are working to end the stigma that surrounds mental illness in a way… Continue Reading