Sentences with phrase «wherry about alcoholism»

The NDP MP talks to Aaron Wherry about alcoholism, family and the residential school experience

«Tom Traubert's Blues» is about alcoholism, alienation and a string of bad luck.

It's clear from your posting that you know almost nothing about alcoholism, and likely have never cared or attempted to understand someone who is an alcoholic.

The church, too, can learn much from AA, both about alcoholism and the healing power of creative religion.

(Ideally, such basic knowledge about alcoholism and counseling alcoholics should be acquired by every minister during his seminary education.)

Having been sensitized (if not utterly harassed) about alcoholism by me, he asked the officiant: «What would you have done if I had brought an alcoholic with me to this communion?»

Let me give you some overall all statistics about alcoholism.

Unless the alcoholic gets help in all four areas, his chances for recovery are very poor indeed (Dying for a Drink: What You Should Know about Alcoholism [Waco, TX: Word Books, 1985], p. 41).

Recognize the effectiveness of teaching about alcoholism and its solution by having drunks tell other drunks about their former problem, their victory, and the way out.

Those who are concerned about alcoholism and who also believe that the church has a significant role in the second half of the twentieth century long to see it take a more dynamic role in the solution of this gigantic problem.

Rigorously accurate presentation of the facts about alcoholism is the method of helping people move toward this objective.

(1) To create an occasion and an atmosphere in which members of the clergy and other professional people may learn more about alcoholism and observe the recovered alcoholic through his own story.

If the wife is to halt the runaway family crisis, it is essential that she become acquainted with the facts about alcoholism.

A primary goal in exposing her to the facts about alcoholism is to help her accept the fact that her husband is suffering from a compulsive - addictive illness of which she is not the basic cause.

However much pressure was placed upon people to wink at excessive drinking in the past, nondrinkers and moderate drinkers were not generally threatened with legal action for telling the truth about alcoholism or for «discriminating» against alcoholics in hiring and housing.

What You Should Know about Alcoholism.

In spite of all that has been written and said about alcoholism being a compulsive illness and an addiction, many Americans still think of it in moralistic, willpower terms.

If one has doubts about the effectiveness of a wide dissemination of realistic knowledge about alcoholism in encouraging earlier treatment, he has only to look at what has happened in AA.

Having recovered and become teetotal, he told Blair about his alcoholism, which Blair did not see as a problem.

IN 1942, doctors sitting on the Research Council on Problems of Alcohol found themselves powerless to resolve America's confusions about alcoholism.

Between Smashed and now this, Ponsoldt makes some of the best films about alcoholism and the realities of struggling with it.

At one point in «Jack Lemmon Returns,» the intriguing new show at the Royal George Theatre from the impresario Hershey Felder, you see a still photo from the fine 1962 movie about alcoholism, «Days of Wine and Roses,» directed by Blake Edwards.

What starts out as a high flying comedy soon turns into unexpected drama about alcoholism.

Although this may be true of some of your earlier films as well, I thought that there was a strong subtext about alcoholism.

In this period, he tackled an Oscar - winning drama about alcoholism (The Lost Weekend), two well - regarded film noirs (Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard), a war drama (Stalag 17), two light - hearted rom - coms (Sabrina, Seven Year Itch) a gripping murder - mystery (Witness for the Prosecution) and perhaps the funniest American movie of all time (Some Like It Hot).

Trying to balance a humorous, honest and emotional film about alcoholism seems like an impossible task but it is what James Ponsoldt's Smashed attempts to do.

James Ponsoldt's «Smashed» knows a lot about alcoholism, and it also knows about the good times that can go along with it.

Shailene Woodley (left, with Miles Teller) is the brightest part of «The Spectacular Now,» a diatribe about alcoholism.

i remember you saying something about his alcoholism being overlooked (maybe?)

I didn't mention anything about his alcoholism, though I did say I thought he seldom painted outside his palette comfort zone.

Any individuals or families who experience difficulty or discomfort in this 72 - hour timeframe should contact local NCADD affiliates, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), or Al - Anon to learn more about alcoholism and its early symptoms.

This memoir is raw, honest and inspiring as I'm very open about my alcoholism and drug addiction.

Carlsbad, CA About Blog My blog is to bring awareness to others about alcoholism, addiction and recovery.

Similar to the old belief about alcoholism as a moral issue, recent research studies have shown «that it is a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory, and related circuitry, with manifestations along biological, psychological, social, and spiritual domains.»

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This is a phony statistic, and is probably based on the statistic that AA only reaches about 5 % of those suffering from alcoholism.

Lamott, the best - selling author of several books about spirituality, describes her specialty as topics that «begin with capital letters: Alcoholism, Motherhood, Jesus.»

After mentioning that alcoholism is no respecter of age, color, or sex, he introduces his second speaker, an attractive woman of about forty.

He ought also to be familiar with some of the basic AA pamphlets such as «Alcoholics Anonymous in Your Community,» «Medicine Looks at Alcoholics Anonymous,» «AA, 44 Questions and Answers About the Program of Recovery from Alcoholism,» «Is AA for You?»

With headquarters in Washington, D.C. (323 DuPont Circle Building, Washington, D.C. 20036), it provides information about public and professional alcoholism programs, as well as serving and representing its member - agency's interests at the national and international levels.

These councils, affiliates of the National Council on Alcoholism, operate Alcoholism Information Centers which disseminate knowledge about» the problem to anyone who is interested, including schools, churches, industry, the news media, and individual information - seekers.

The mission conceptions of alcoholism and homelessness are grossly in adequate, overlooking nearly all that the social sciences have to tell about these two phenomena.

Father Ford's books on the subject include: Depth Psychology, Morality and Alcoholism (Weston, Mass.: West College Press, 1951) and What About Your Drinking?

One of the Yale ministers stated this point of view very well when he said: «Alcoholism is a sin only in the sense that it is a sin attributed to society, especially a Christian society — that we have been unable to bring about a world free from the tensions and conflicts of the present day.

This keeps us from accepting readings that propose, for example, that Jesus was really an Egyptian freemason or that the book of Mark is about overcoming alcoholism.

In what many believe to be his finest song, «Desperados Under the Eaves,» Zevon sings about his fierce battle with alcoholism and reckons with a judgment from beyond:

But neither do we have the reign of God for the redemption of society when Christians are unconcerned about the plight of their fellow men, or when such giant evils as war, race discrimination, alcoholism, economic injustice, hunger and homelessness, and the shattering of family life go unchallenged.

Last, had I known that alcoholism is a disease worse than cancer, and that it ran through the family genes thus any baby born had a strong chance of becoming one... well, that seals the deal but, I bet the parents who also fell for religiosity, not knowing it was an enclave for pedophiles... talk about regrets from hell.

About 66 percent of American adults drink alcohol, according to 2001 - 2002 figures from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

In fact, I have found that even Bill Wilson's medical mentor, Dr. William Duncan Silkworth, had spoken positively about making the turn to Jesus Christ (whom Silkworth and Wilson both called the Great Physician) for the healing of alcoholism (see The Positive Power of Jesus Christ by Norman Vincent Peale).