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Posted on May 23, 2013 at 1:25 am by Sparrow

Alcohol Abuse Makes Prescription Drug Abuse More Likely
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Those under age 25 are particularly vulnerable to dual abuse. Men and women with alcohol use disorders (AUD’s) are 18 times more likely to report nonmedical use of prescription drugs than people who don’t drink at all, according to researchers at the University of Michigan. Dr. Sean Esteban McCabe and colleagues documented this link in …∞

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Posted on May 21, 2013 at 1:06 am by Sparrow

Treatment Setting
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Brief-TSF Treatment Setting Brief-TSF can be used with both individuals who have never sought treatment and those who had previous treatment and aftercare clients. The model is flexible enough to accommodate all of these client groups. However, since Brief-TSF relies heavily on client involvement in community-based 12 step fellowship and meetings, it would be less …∞

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Posted on May 20, 2013 at 12:47 am by Sparrow

Self-help reduces costs and promotes sobriety
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12-Step Involvement Increases Sobriety and Reduces Costs BACKGROUND: Accumulating evidence indicates that addiction and psychiatric treatment programs that actively promote self-help group involvement can reduce their patients’ health care costs in the first year after treatment, but such initially impressive effects may wane over time. This paper examines whether the positive clinical outcomes and reduced …∞

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Posted on May 19, 2013 at 1:00 am by Sparrow and modified on May 17, 2013 at 4:02 pm.

Self-Help Groups Reduce Mortality Risk

The present study aimed to determine whether alcoholics who attend self-help groups experience fewer deaths than those who do not. Subjects were patients from the Alcoholism Treatment Program (ATP) of Matsuzawa hospital. A cohort of alcoholic patients recruited into a prospective study was followed from April 1994 to March 1999. A total of 469 alcoholic …∞

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Posted on May 16, 2013 at 12:20 am by Sparrow

Alcoholics Anonymous and Nursing
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  Alcoholics Anonymous and Nursing; Lessons in Holism and Spiritual Care. Alcoholic Anonymous (AA) is a worldwide, 2 million-member organization that has assisted countless alcoholics to achieve sobriety through a spiritual program of recovery from alcoholism. Based on spiritual principles known as the “Twelve Steps” and “Twelve Traditions,” AA has provided a model for other …∞

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Posted on May 15, 2013 at 10:26 am by Sparrow and modified on May 15, 2013 at 10:34 am.

AA is for Men and Women
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Does Alcoholics Anonymous work differently for men and women? A moderated multiple-mediation analysis in a large clinical sample Background Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) began as a male organization, but about one third is now female. Studies have found that women participate at least as much as men and benefit equally from AA, but it is unclear …∞

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Posted on May 15, 2013 at 12:05 am by Sparrow

Spirituality in Alcoholism Recovery
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The spiritual progression of 14 members of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) was studied using a transtheoretical approach, with object relations theory as a primary framework.

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Posted on May 13, 2013 at 11:51 pm by Sparrow

Alcoholic is good and sober
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Alcoholic is good and
sober; Sentiment change in
AA. An alcoholic is a
stigmatized, deviant
identity. This longitudinal
study of 55 Alcoholics
Anonymous (AA)
participants found that
even chronic alcohol
abusers viewed alcoholics
negatively, in keeping with
normative understandings.
However, following
mandated AA attendance,
there was significant
change in social sentiments
for alcohol-related
concepts and meanings for
feelings and objects
related to drinking, as
sentiments became similar
to AA subculture
understandings. In AA “an
alcoholic” is good.
Sentiment change, AA
ideology, and the
implications for identity and
normative behavior are
discussed. Section
headings in this article
include: (1) theoretical
background in the
development of meaning;
(2)

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Posted on May 11, 2013 at 11:43 pm by Sparrow

Predictors of help-seeking in drinkers
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Predictors of help-seeking
and the temporal
relationship of help to
recovery among treated
and untreated recovered
problem drinkers. This
study investigated
variables predicting
different help-seeking
patterns (no treatment, AA
participation only, or
treatment plus AA
participation) by problem
drinkers who had
maintained stable
abstinence (n = 57).
Collaterals verified
subjects’; help-
seeking and drinking
status. Help-seeking was
predicted by greater
alcohol-related psycho-
social problems, especially
in interpersonal
relationships, but was not
associated with heavier
drinking practices or
demographic
characteristics.
Subjects’; belief that
they could solve their own
problem deterred help-
seeking, whereas
relationship problems and
being unable to quit on
one’;s own
facilitated help-seeking.
Additional incentives
specific to AA were its

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Posted on May 10, 2013 at 11:26 pm by Sparrow

Alcoholics Have Trouble Identifying Emotions
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  Dissociation and alexithymia among men with alcoholism Aim: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the relationship between alexithymia (The Inability to label or identify emotions) and dissociation (See below) among men with alcoholism. Methods: Participants were 176 patients consecutively admitted to the inpatient unit of a addiction treatment center. The Toronto …∞

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