Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism – Video Explanations

By Lisa Frederiksen |

Alcohol abuse and alcoholism are NOT one in the same.

Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism are not one in the same. One is a brain disease for which the first step in treatment and recovery is total abstinence forever, and the other is a drinking pattern that can potentially be changed.

Sometimes a different media helps a person “hear” the same message differently than the way they’ve heard it before.

To that end, I’d like to share two short, 10-minute videos to help readers better understand alcohol abuse and alcoholism — how they differ and what they share in common.

How Much Is Too Much? “At-Risk” Drinking Patterns Explained

Alcoholism is a Disease and It’s Not Alcohol Abuse

Please share information sources that have worked for you. Just as there is no one-right-way to  change one’s alcohol use patterns or treat their alcoholism, so too is there no one-right-way to deliver this important information.

Lisa Frederiksen

Lisa Frederiksen

Author | Speaker | Consultant | Founder at BreakingTheCycles.com
Lisa Frederiksen is the author of hundreds of articles and 12 books, including her latest, "10th Anniversary Edition If You Loved Me, You'd Stop! What you really need to know when your loved one drinks too much,” and "Loved One In Treatment? Now What!” She is a national keynote speaker with over 30 years speaking experience, consultant and founder of BreakingTheCycles.com. Lisa has spent the last 19+ years studying and simplifying breakthrough research on the brain, substance use and other mental health disorders, secondhand drinking, toxic stress, trauma/ACEs and related topics.
Share This
Posted in Addiction | Substance Use Disorders | Treatment, Prevention | Intervention and tagged

1 Comments

  1. alcohol treatment clinics, alcohol treatment, alcohol clinic on April 8, 2012 at 7:00 pm

    Hi There Lisa,
    Thanks you for your post, Collecting rent is one of those situations where I have to use some rules of thumb, some feeling, some gut to try to figure out whether it’s time to go and do the eviction or do we try to work with the tenant and see if they can get caught up. Maybe it’s a temporary problem. We can do a weekly or monthly payment plan and maybe we can get them back on paying again.
    Cheers

    Reply

Leave a Comment