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- Alcohol Treatment Centers: How To Wage War On a Deadly Disease - by Submitted on Oct 17, 2011 from Mark Reed Merrill"I wouldn't give in for nothin,'" says James J. "I'd told myself I'd die before I'd surrender to anything. But alcohol kicked my ass. I lost everything: my house, my wife, my kids and, finally, my freedom. I'll never legally drive an automobile again, at least not in Virginia. It was time to ...
Views: 1056 - Alcohol Rehabilitation: The Opportunity to Know Feelings Again - by Submitted on Oct 17, 2011 from Mark Reed MerrillAlcohol, a depressant, effects the nervous system in ways virtually indistinguishable from the most powerful depressant medications known. This contradicts the time honored image of alcohol consumption as a recreational endeavor. Many confuse euphoria and diminishing inhibitions, the initial ...
Views: 1381 - Alcohol Rehab: The Effective Alternative to Incarceration - by Submitted on Oct 03, 2011 from Mark Reed MerrillDecades of genetic and social research have finally led the legal system to see alcoholism for what it is: a disease. This, in conjunction with the high alcoholic recidivism rate in America's penal system, has prompted a new respect for alcohol rehab as the logical alternative to ...
Views: 1009(1 vote) - Addiction Treatment: How Fear, Faith and Friends Beget Recovery - by Submitted on Oct 03, 2011 from Mark Reed MerrillIt is also when the door to faith opens. A heavy door, opening it requires more than just the addict's efforts. It requires the help of people familiar with early recovery essentials: detoxification, abstinence and isolation from known relapse triggers; admission of powerlessness and the ...
Views: 1044(1 vote) - Alcohol Treatment Centers: Spin Dry or Valuable Education - by Submitted on Sep 23, 2011 from Mark Reed MerrillThe truth is that alcohol treatment centers, especially in conjunction with twelve-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous, have proven the most effective weapons in the fight against alcoholism and addiction yet devised. It's not that they model sober living; it's that they teach alcoholics ...
Views: 2269 - Addiction Treatment: The Effective Alternative to Incarceration - by Submitted on Sep 23, 2011 from Mark Reed MerrillA 1996 study revealed that the US economy suffered over twenty-five billion dollars in lost productivity do to heroin addiction that year alone. Fifteen years later, with the explosion in use of designer and other addictive drugs, the annual cost may be twice that. This expense, when added to ...
Views: 830(1 vote) - Addiction Treatment: The Unraveling of a Social Myth - by Submitted on Sep 05, 2011 from Mark Reed MerrillAccording to The Oxford Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language, addiction is defined as follows: "...the condition of taking a drug habitually and being unable to give it up without incurring adverse effects." Nothing more, nothing less. It says nothing about mental illness, character ...
Views: 716 - Alcohol Treatment Centers: Where Honesty Can Be Understood - by Submitted on Sep 05, 2011 from Mark Reed MerrillThe alcoholic starts with small lies: I only had a couple; the meeting ran overtime. The lies then progress to deceptive behaviors: hiding bottles in closets, even toilets; breaking appointments with false excuses. As those close to the alcoholic learn he or she can't be counted on, they not ...
Views: 755 - Alcohol Rehabilitation: Education as the Primary Weapon - by Submitted on Aug 18, 2011 from Mark Reed MerrillThree theories purport to explain alcoholism: Genetic, defining it as a chromosomal predisposition; Sociological, defining it as a product of social influences; and Psychological, defining it as a personality predisposition. Effective alcohol rehabilitation takes each into consideration. The ...
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