Sentences with phrase «dependency on alcoholism»

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Except for an independent organization called the National Episcopal Coalition on Alcoholism and Drugs, a handful of diocesan, councils that promote conferences on alcohol and drugs, and approximately a dozen concerned and courageous bishops who require clergy training in the subjects, the Episcopal Church, in which I am a priest, would have no focused program on chemical dependency at all, save one day a year called Alcohol Awareness Sunday.

Photo Credit: Long Island Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependency

It is based on the philosophy that alcoholism and chemical dependency is a treatable illness characterized by compulsion, loss of control, the tendency to use despite adverse consequences and a tendency to relapse unless support systems are fully utilized.

According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism 16.6 million adults over the age of 18 suffer from some sort of alcohol use disorder, and only 1.3 million (7.8 %) receive the proper treatment they need to conquer alcohol addiction and alcohol dependency.