Prevention | Intervention
How to Get Someone to Stop Drinking So Much
Drinking problems often seem to worsen around the holidays, or at least become more obvious, as families gather for extended periods of time and observe drinking behaviors that are too awful and/or too often to ignore or excuse. And then the questions and discussions pick up, again, centered around the search question, “How to get…
Read MoreWhat is Love When You Love an Alcoholic
If you love an alcoholic, you know the pain of watching your loved one continue their downward spiral as you try desperately to do anything and everything to help them. And what do you do when the treatment professional you’ve consulted tells you that you must “detach with love” in order to help your loved…
Read MoreWhat is Considered Normal Drinking
At your annual check up, your doctor asks, “Do you drink?” And if you do, you say, “Yes.” Then your doctor asks, “How much?” And you respond with some amount – generally in terms of, “now and then” or “a glass of wine with dinner” or “only on the week-ends.” And you wonder… “Is that…
Read MoreDisruptive Child – Could be Sign of Untreated Alcoholism at Home
Disruptive child? It may be their disruptive behaviors are the result of what’s happened to them, not “them.” And the “what’s happened to ‘them’” may be secondhand drinking. Secondhand drinking is the impacts of a person’s drinking behaviors on others, such as the drinking behaviors associated with alcoholism and alcohol abuse. Children who grow up…
Read MoreNational Impaired Driving Prevention Month 2013
December is National Impaired Driving Prevention Month, which was established to stop THIS from being true… Every day, almost 30 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol-impaired driver. This amounts to one death every 48 minutes. The annual cost of alcohol-related crashes totals more than $51 billion. CDC –…
Read MoreHelping Children Recover from Trauma
Helping children recover from trauma can be one of the most important substance abuse | addiction prevention measures we take. Why? Childhood trauma, whether it’s that caused by verbal, physical or emotional abuse; neglect; domestic violence; alcoholism or drug addiction in the home; bullying or similar traumatic experiences, can change how a child’s brain develops.…
Read MoreFamily Disease of Addiction – Expand Health Care to Treat Both Sides
Treatment of the family disease of addiction would greatly benefit if treatment for both sides – the family AND the addict | alcoholic – were FULLY covered under health care insurance. Why? Because one often contributes to the other and both contribute to the continuance of the cycle, passing it from one generation to the next.…
Read MoreIntroducing – In the Name of the Son by Declan Duggan
In the Name of the Son is a powerful new book by Declan Duggan whose son, Kevin, was just 19 when he died in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, UK, on Saturday evening, 31st October 1998. Kevin had unwittingly accepted a ride from a drunk driver. According to Declan, the local police force reported there was no suspicion…
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