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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 17, 2013 at 12:27 am by Sparrow

Painkiller abuse
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Painkiller abuse Painkiller
abuse continues to grow;
new treatments offer hope
Increasingly, drug abusers
are getting their next fix
from their medicine
cabinets, instead of from
drug dealers. More than 6
million Americans abuse
prescription drugs,
according to the U.S. Drug
Enforcement
Administration. One in 10
teenagers admits to
abusing painkillers, such as
Vicodin and Oxycontin.
Painkillers cause more
overdoses than cocaine
and heroin combined.
“Access to prescription
painkillers has never been
easier,” says addictions
psychiatrist Donna Yi, MD,
associate chief of staff and
clinical director for The
Menninger Clinic and
assistant professor in the
Menninger Department of
Psychiatry & Behavioral
Sciences at Baylor College
of Medicine

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Posted on May 7, 2013 at 10:55 pm by Sparrow

AA and NA Works for Youth too
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Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous benefit adolescents who attend

Posted in 12-Step Groups, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholics Anon, Alcoholism, Assessment, Demographics, Disease of addiction, Drugs, Mutual-help, Narcotics Anon, Recovery, Relapse prevention, Research, Self-help, Spirituality, Target populations, TSF, Youth and tagged , , , . Use this permalink for a bookmark.

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Posted on April 30, 2013 at 9:48 pm by Sparrow

ACTIVE INGREDIENTS OF EFFECTIVE ALCOHOL TREATMENT
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Early detection, including screening and brief interventions (for nondependent problem drinkers) Comprehensive assessment and individualized treatment plan Care management Individually delivered, proven professional interventions Contracting with patients Social skills training Medications Specialized services for medical, psychiatric, employment or family problems Continuing care Strong bond with therapist or counselor Longer duration (for alcohol dependent persons) Participation …∞

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Posted on April 28, 2013 at 9:26 pm by Sparrow

The Role of AA Sponsors
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A pilot study of the role of AA sponsors An AA sponsor is a close 1-on-1 collaboration between an older sober member and a relative newcomer to sobriety. Its a two way helping relationship – the sponsor affirms their own sobriety and the sponsee gains new insights. AIMS: The aim of this study was to …∞

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Posted on April 22, 2013 at 8:27 pm by Sparrow

Alcohol Brief Intervention in Primary Practice
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Are Brief Alcohol Interventions Likely to be Effective in Routine Primary Care Practice? A number of meta-analyses have demonstrated the modest efficacy of brief interventions (BI) for nondependent unhealthy alcohol use in primary care settings. Whether this level of efficacy can be expected when BIs are delivered outside of research studies in not known. This …∞

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Posted on April 20, 2013 at 8:13 pm by Sparrow

AA and Spirituality
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Spirituality plays an important role in the rehabilitation of many substance-dependent people

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Posted on April 17, 2013 at 7:45 pm by Sparrow

Five Alcoholism Subtypes
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Researchers Identify
Alcoholism Subtypes
Analyses of a national
sample of individuals with
alcohol dependence
(alcoholism) reveal five
distinct subtypes of the
disease, according to a
new study by scientists at
the National Institute on
Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of
the National Institutes of
Health (NIH). “Our findings
should help dispel the
popular notion of the
‘typical alcoholic,’;” notes
first author Howard B.
Moss, M.D., NIAAA
Associate Director for
Clinical and Translational
Research. “We find that
young adults comprise the
largest group of alcoholics
in this country, and nearly
20 percent of alcoholics are
highly functional and well-
educated with good
incomes. More than half of
the alcoholics

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Posted on April 15, 2013 at 7:37 pm by Sparrow

AA Membership
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Results suggest stability in the representation of women and minorities among the AA membership

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