Below you will find several new NIAAA (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism) publications: Alcohol Alert #77: Neuroscience: Pathways to Alcohol Dependence Why do some people become dependent on alcohol? Scientists are addressing the question of alcohol dependence and its effect on thought, mood, and behavior through neuroscience, the study of the brain, where… Continue Reading
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Links This Week
Deepak Chopra’s iPhone app: Stress Free / Stress Reduction, Meditation, Wellness, Mind Body Read more… How Common Are Psychiatric Disorders? These large studies have provided important insights into the nature of psychiatric disorders in the United States…the data from the NCS and NCS-R obtained from 1990 to 1992 and 2001 to 2003, respectively, indicate that… Continue Reading
The TDA Alphabet Primer: A is for Abstinence
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. Abstinence, to the recovering alcoholic it can either be a ball and chain or a ticket to freedom; it all depends upon one’s point of reference. Abstinence during my early… Continue Reading
The Importance of Treating Alcoholism for What It Is – a Chronic Relapsing Disease
by Lisa Frederiksen The George Washington University Medical Center has an incredible website, Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems. One of the pieces you will find there is it’s “Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems, Primter 1, Executive Summary.” I am going to highlight some of the concepts raised in this document below: 1. Alcoholism is a… Continue Reading
Race to Nowhere – Pressures on Today’s Teens
The pressures on today’s teens are extraordinary. I remember when preparing for the S.A.T. test was, “Do you have an extra #2 pencil – I forgot mine?” Today, children are pressured to take AP classes, volunteer, play a varsity sport, excel in all classes, strive for a 4.+ GPA – watching my own daughters go… Continue Reading
Links This Week
The Alcohol Cost Calculator for Business – What Can Your Company Do About Costly Alcohol Problems? Problem drinking, including alcoholism, can strike anyone, even your most valued employees. Alcohol costs borne by business are frequently hidden, showing up in more expensive emergency room visits and more missed work days. Alcohol problems reduce the productivity of… Continue Reading
Worried About Your Teen’s Alcohol Use? Consider the CRAFFT Screening Tool
by Lisa Frederiksen There are a number of short assessment / screening tools for anonymously assessing your or someone else’s drinking, such as: CAGE, WHO Audit, NIAAA Clinician’s Guide and NIAAA’s Rethinking Drinking. Keep in mind that when done by a layperson, these tools are for assessing NOT diagnosing. They are simply a way of… Continue Reading
9 Reasons a Person Can Lose Control of Drinking
Lose control of drinking – what does this mean and how does it happen? What does it mean to lose control of drinking? Verbally, physically or emotionally abusing someone – often a spouse, girlfriend, boyfriend or child Doing poorly at work or school because of the drinking or recovering from the effects of drinking Fighting… Continue Reading