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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 18, 2013 at 12:33 am by Sparrow

Pain in the Patient With a Substance Use Disorder
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Safe Treatment of Pain in the Patient With a Substance Use Disorder Conditions associated with severe pain can and do develop in persons who have active addiction or who are in remission from an addictive disease, and these patients may require treatment for pain relief. This presents a challenge to clinicians: How can pain be …∞

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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 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 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 8, 2013 at 10:57 pm by Sparrow

Attendance at Meetings and Abstinence

Do 12 step meeting attendance trajectories over 9 years predict abstinence? This study grouped treatment-seeking individuals (n = 1825) by common patterns of 12-step attendance using 5 waves of data (75% interviewed Year 9) to isolate unique characteristics and use-related outcomes distinguishing each class profile. The “high” class reported the highest attendance and abstention. The …∞

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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

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Posted on May 5, 2013 at 10:49 pm by Sparrow

Pain Medication Abuse
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Pain Medication Abuse
About 4 Percent of Pain
Patients Abuse Meds,
Study Estimates A new
study finds that 3.8
percent of chronic-pain
patients misuse
prescription medications
like OxyContin and
Percocet, a rate about four
times higher than among
the general population,
Reutersreported Aug. 3.
Researcher Michael F.
Fleming of the University of
Wisconsin at Madison and
colleagues also found that
patients who had addiction
problems tended to exhibit
“aberrant” behavior, such
as requesting early refills,
raising dosage without
authorization, intentionally
oversedating themselves,
or using opioids for reasons
other than treating pain.
The study included 801
patients with an average
age of 49 and who, on
average, had

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