Sentences with phrase «many of them alcoholic»

Data from the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States show beer's share of alcoholic beverage sales fell to 49.8 % in 2010, from 55.5 % a decade earlier.

Cancer doctors in the US say even as little as one glass a day of an alcoholic drink can contribute to your risk of developing cancer.

«White males are not only more likely than any other sub-group to have consumed alcohol in the past week, but those of them that did are more likely to have consumed a greater number of alcoholic beverages during the week,» the report states.

The number of churches correlates with the number of alcoholics, but it's not causal.

Six badges she carried while rising through the ranks as an agent with the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control are on display in her sunny, corner office.

Rum maker Bacardi has dipped into the U.S. bourbon market for the first time with the acquisition of Angel's Envy, getting a sliver of a red - hot segment of the alcoholic beverage market.

The backstory: When Edgar Bronfman and his brother, Charles, inherited the century - old Seagram spirits empire in 1971 upon the death of their father, it was the largest distiller of alcoholic beverages in the world.

For questions about legality and licensure, please contact the Kentucky Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (http://www.abc.ky.gov).

The style, which has exploded to the point that IPA sub-styles are positioned to outgrow entire segments of alcoholic beverages, owns 27.1 percent of craft's overall dollar share.

APEC recommends that Atlantic regulatory reform prioritize the areas with the largest economic impact and identified a number of areas that need attention, including truck transportation, labour standards, corporate registrations, safety standards and production and sale of alcoholic beverages.

Prevalence estimates for alcoholic hepatitis (AH) range from 10 % -35 % of alcoholics (about 8 % of the US population) or about 2.4 - 8.4 million US patients may have alcoholic hepatitis (World J Hepatol 2011 Vol 3 (5) 108 - 113).

That is why she put herself right under the stumbling heels of an alcoholic with never a thought of leaving him.

Many readers strongly believe the Bible is clear in its prohibition of alcoholic beverages.

The objective is twofold: to reconstruct the fractured psyche of the alcoholic and restore his lost connection with the absolute.

In «The Fantasy of Addiction,» Peter Hitchens writes of Alcoholics Anonymous: «Somehow I suspect that God plays less of a part in modern AA doctrine.»

In his book Not God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous, Ernest Kurtz crystallizes that «the fundamental and first message of Alcoholics Anonymous to its members is that they are not infinite, not absolute, not God.»

Rather, most believers in America before 1800 «regarded the moderate use of alcoholic beverages, particularly beer and wine, as a privileged blessing from a gracious God.»

AA works for about 5 % of alcoholics.

I've been accused of the things I've been studying to treat and grew up as an ACOA (adult child of an alcoholic).

Please see the AA «companion text» to AA's official text book of ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, page 192.

One of those interviewed ex pressed a sentiment that is echoed by thousands of alcoholics today: «AA was for me the birth of hope!»

It is because AA satisfies so many of the alcoholic's needs that it is able to control his attitudes and behavior in the direction of sobriety.

From that moment plans for spreading the good news to the thousands of alcoholics who could be helped began to take shape.

The fact that half of a group of alcoholics who were in a mental hospital recovered is significant.

The fact that AA is free and is based on the principle of alcoholics helping other alcoholics in order to help themselves means that Joe need not fear either financial or emotional exploitation.

Their most successful campaign was that which finally made the use of alcoholic beverages illegal.

For those that say its just a lack of character and discipline, do yourself a favor and google «famous alcoholics»... throughout history there have been hundreds of alcoholics who have had more discipline and character than any of us will ever have.

Nearly all the major American Protestant Churches — the exceptions were the Lutherans and Episcopalians — favored either a drastic reduction of or prohibition of all alcoholic beverages.

Those four steps help us get rid of those alcoholic lenses that were before our eyes — the ones that caused us to see not the decent, kindly folk about us but grotesque and distorted figures — demons in a land of nightmare.

This is the regular Friday night open meeting of the East Brooklyn group of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Of those alcoholics who wish to get well and are emotionally capable of trying our method, 50 percent recover immediately, 25 percent after a few backslides.

There are other points of great seriousness, as in the widespread production and advertising of alcoholic beverages and hence the encouragement given to their consumption, and in the doubtful validity of the production of implements of atomic destruction.

In so doing he has surrendered some of his alcoholic grandiosity about himself.

W. W. (Bill W.), «The Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous,» Alcohol, Science and Society, p. 462.

In the case of alcoholics, it was felt by Worcester that they should be seen every day, especially in early phases of their treatment.

This is especially true of the spouse or other relative of the alcoholic who has not recognized the illness.

An experienced pastoral counselor of alcoholics states: «Ordinarily one must see an alcoholic three or four times a week for the first few weeks, and then a couple of times a week for a month or two more, and then once a week for a considerable length of time.»

Intensive counseling of alcoholics involves a considerable amount of frustration and emotional drain.

Since the Emmanuel approach was dependent on professionals, the number of alcoholics who could be helped was quite limited as compared to AA.

Under the influence of a rapidly moving revival atmosphere, punctuated by the singing of the simple, primitive music of the gospel chorus, the defensive shell of the alcoholic is gradually softened.

From insight gained through analyses of alcoholics, Worcester arrived at a profound understanding of alcoholism:

Equally important, and somewhat related, is what the late Otis R. Rice, pioneer in pastoral work with alcoholics, called «remote preparation for counseling of alcoholics.»

Pittman and Gordon summarize their findings concerning this type of alcoholic.

It goes against the traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous.

A lot of alcoholics realize they have secondary love or sex or food addictions that have been hiding.

One of the most important aspects of preparation for pastoral counseling of alcoholics is that of determining what resources are available for referral in one's community, and of acquiring firsthand knowledge of these resources.

AA experience has shown that these mental attitudes on the part of the alcoholic are essential prerequisites for successful therapy.

«The only important limitation a minister has is the initial hesitancy of the alcoholic to approach a minister.

Another group of alcoholics encountered in pastoral counseling are those whose abnormal drinking is painfully obvious to the «significant others» in their lives, but not to themselves.

In other words, the very fact that such a large proportion of the Yale ministers had worked with a substantial number of alcoholics is ipso facto evidence that they were doing an effective job with them.