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What Motivates Us?

What Motivates Us?
Oftentimes when working with someone in co-occurring disorder recovery we get to the point where the addiction itself is no longer front and center.
The fires have died down and the war, while not over, is some distance away now.
This necessarily precipitates a…

Parental monitoring of opposite-gender child may d…

Parental monitoring of opposite-gender child may decrease problem drinking in young adults

They Are Sober, But Why Are They Jerks?

Why do people, who have been sober for years, behave inappropriately with alarming regularity? Recently, I was asked this question in group therapy(the exact words have been edited as they were not fit to print). The person who posed the question felt she had been misled. She believed that, even after decades of recovery, some people were “still messed up and acting out their issues.”
 
Similarly, a reader who commented on my post, “What Recovering Alcoholics Can Teach Us About Happiness,” discussed her negative experience in AA. She described some longtime members as “seething cauldrons of…

Doctors Urged To Take Lead In Work On Alcohol Abus…

Doctors should take the lead on tackling alcohol misuse, both by counseling patients and by urging governments to take wider action, according to a group of international medical organizations.
“We are calling on clinicians to be better advocates for evidence-based policies (to reduce harms caused by alcohol), which include price, marketing and availability,” said Ian Gilmore, MD, of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in Liverpool, England, and past president of the Royal College of Physicians of London.
Gilmore told MedPage Today in an email that the 15 physicians’ colleges — including the American College of…

Damaged Gait and Balance Can Recover With Long-Ter…

Chronic alcoholism is often associated with a disturbed gait and balance, likely caused by alcohol damage to neural systems. While some studies have suggested that abstinence can lead to partial recovery of gait and balance functions, questions remain about duration of abstinence and sample size. This study of both short- and long-term abstinence has found that alcoholics’ gait and balance can continue to recover with long-term abstinence from alcohol but that deficits can persist, especially eyes-closed standing balance.
 
Results will be published in the December 2011 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research…

Helping kids learn to make better choices (about d…

Parents with tweens or teens often wonder how to effectively parent their children so that the kids can make sound decisions even when their parents are not around, including decisions about drugs and alcohol.
 
A recent study in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs has confirmed that parenting style, in fact, does have an influence on their child’s impulsiveness, including control over their drinking, and the possibility of alcohol problems. Julie Patock-Peckham, Ph.D., and colleagues broke parenting styles into three categories: authoritarian (emphasis on rules and obedience and lack of discussion), authoritative (clear…

Abstinence, Heavy Dr…

Previous research regarding the association between alcohol consumption and dementia or cognitive impairment in later life suggests that mild to moderate alcohol consumption might be protective of dementia. However, most of the research has been conducted on subjects already rather elderly…

Early substance misuse continues into middle age

Adolescents who misuse alcohol and drugs are at increased risk of continued misuse well into middle age. They are also at increased risk of experiencing mental health problems, accidents, physical health problems, premature death, financial problems, and suicide attempts. These are the results of a doctoral thesis presented by Yasmina Molero Samuelson at the Center for Psychiatric Research (CPF), Karolinska Institutet.
 
In the present thesis, Yasmina Molero Samuelson has followed two large cohorts of adolescents for several decades. These cohorts received treatment for substance misuse at a clinic in Stockholm, Sweden during two time…

Further Study Needed Of How Brain Biology And Func…

At least 60 percent of individuals treated for an alcohol use disorder will relapse, typically within six months of treatment.

Alcoholic Progression

Question: What do they mean when after being sober for years, if you start drinking again, your drinking will take off as though you haven’t been dry at all? In fact some say that it is worse, like if you were drinking all those dry years too. I am not planning to do this but a couple of members in my AA group described this, and I just wanted to check it out. I also wonder if you could explain why this happens?
Answer: Your friends represent the profound wisdom of AA. Over the years and with thousands and thousand of years in recovery, it has been observed that when the occasional person who, after many years of abstinence from alcohol,…

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