Sentences with phrase «of alcoholism in»

Because exposure to traumatic events is strongly associated with alcohol abuse, these traumas introduced high rates of alcoholism in Native communities, which in turn has led to a high rate of HIV and other STIs.

Engaging the entire family has multiple benefits in multiple domains including treatment outcomes, patient recovery, family recovery and long - term prevention of alcoholism in other family members.

The impact of the full program (prenatal and infancy home visitation) on children's use of alcohol and number of sexual partners is important because recent evidence indicates that alcohol use prior to age 15 years multiplies the risk of alcoholism in adulthood26 and multiple partners increase the risk for sexually transmitted diseases, including human immunodeficiency virus infection.27, 28 The effect of the program on alcohol use is consistent with greater alcohol consumption observed among adult rhesus monkeys who experienced aberrant rearing.29 These findings must be tempered, however, with an acknowledgment of their limitations.

He cut his ties with New York City, and died of alcoholism in 1988, at 48.

After the overwhelming feelings of isolation we felt with the Irish film, Room (2015); our emotions take another beating when witnessing the physical and mental consequences of alcoholism in Gerard Barrett's Glassland.

I am blessed in that I haven't had to deal with issues of alcoholism in my life, so I can't say I know what you were going through, but just reading your story reveals your strength of courage and resilience.

Yamaki will present these findings during the RSA 2017 meeting on Sunday, June 25 at 3:15 during «A Multifaceted View of Alcoholism in Older Adults» at the Hyatt Regency Denver.

Sixty percent of evangelical Christian leaders say they don't drink alcohol socially, citing reasons as diverse as the words of St. Paul, the desire to be a good leader and a history of alcoholism in the family, according to a survey by the National Association of Evangelicals released Thursday.

But, I do want to stop and think about the one detail that NewSpring has been clear about: alcohol issues and pastoral ministry, and, though we don't know all the details here, I'll include a bit about the struggle of alcoholism in Christian ministry.

The Supreme Court added to public misunderstanding of the disease of alcoholism in its April finding in Traynor v. Turnage and McKelvey v. Turnage.

What the counselor may have done was to help him begin to recognize the symptoms of alcoholism in his drinking behavior.

Not exact matches

On the second page, Oppenheimer catalogues the family's many misfortunes and humiliations: «Drug addictions, alcoholism, overdoses, adultery, homosexuality, child abuse in the form of molestation, suspected kidnapping, a murder plot, a shooting, tragic accidents, suicide, attempted suicides, and other mayhem.»

Oh, he was censured by the Senate, sat in the back, and died from alcoholism a couple of years later.

Whether it is communism, or religion, or a alcoholism — when logic is suppressed and punished in favor of blind faith, mankind suffers.

The gambling jobs, taxes and recreational values provided by the industry can not compensate for the social pain — in the form of bankruptcies, white - collar crime, divorce, a compromised political process, an increase in alcoholism — it inflicts.

We agree that alcoholism is not in any conventional sense a «disease»: That white lie gained ground in early Alcoholics Anonymous because it helped unburden the alcoholic of guilt and self - hatred at the outset of recovery, enabling him to perceive that his own sense of powerlessness was not the last word.

If you took those AA members and put them all in, say, group therapy sessions headed by a psychiatrist, psychologist, etc., if AA didn't exist at all, it's quite possible that many of them would still recover from their alcoholism with similar statistical levels of success.

There very simply is no evidence whatsoever that homosexuality is caused genetically, though there could be a genetic disposition (as in some instances of alcoholism).

The wife of a recovering alcoholic said, «We didn't expect to get reconnected with a higher Power and to rejoin the human race as a result of Ben's alcoholism, but that's just what happened to us in AA and Al - Anon.»

At the end of a series of hospitalizations, a medical specialist in alcoholism, William Silkworth, confided to Lois that her husband was «hopeless.»

This is an unconscious process by which normal social controls, which have had little meaning to Joe in the advanced stages of his alcoholism, are reestablished.

Is AA's effectiveness in producing long - term sobriety the result of the resolving of psychological conflicts which lie at the roots of alcoholism, or is it the result of an effective means of keeping the conflicts repressed or under control?

In addition there is an abundance of oral satisfactions — smoking, talking, and oceans of coffee — to replace the orality of alcoholism.

Sharing information of this kind, alcoholism treatment in AA for people who don't believe in God, such as myself, was something I hadn't considered.

If I were asked to give my strongest impression resulting from the study which underlies this book, it would be this: In all the dark history of the handling of the problem of alcoholism, the brightest ray of hope and help is Alcoholics Anonymous!

In a country where alcoholism, gun violence, and drugs lure a lot of young people (particularly young men) into destructive lifestyles, World Vision has implemented leadership initiatives, after - school programs, and peace programs that seem to be making a difference, particularly among sponsored children who grow into adults.

The AA conception of alcoholism — recognizing a physical factor in the sickness — renders the alcoholic's behavior intelligible to himself and greatly reduces the fear and guilt which were supplying him with added desire for the «blessed oblivion» of alcohol.

In terms of the psychology of alcoholism, this development is most significant.

In spite of these criticisms of the Salvation Army approach to alcoholism, it is still true that, compared with the rescue mission approach, the Army's is progressive and relatively more effective.

In some cases, being introduced to the illness conception and early symptoms of alcoholism will help to open the person's eyes to the nature of his problem and his need for help.

The curricula of such schools is designed to be of particular usefulness to teachers, physicians, clergymen, social workers, law enforcement and probation officers, industrial leaders, directors of alcoholism programs, and other persons interested in alcoholism education, research, and rehabilitation.

Most pastors rejoice in the increasing availability of specialized agencies and groups to treat alcoholism.

The available evidence suggests that the mission approach is often effective in producing initial sobriety by arresting the «runaway symptom» aspect of alcoholism.

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?»

There was another reason why Worcester avoided a moralistic conception of alcoholism and human ills in general.

Among those seeking pastoral help are some whose disturbance in living is associated with or caused by alcoholism which may be hidden from themselves, in that they do not recognize the compulsive quality of their drinking.

The report provides the basis for a major breakthrough in the field of alcoholism.

I have instructed the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to: Appoint an advisory committee on alcoholism; establish in the Public Health Service a center for research on the cause, prevention, control, and treatment of alcoholism; develop an educational program in order to foster public understanding based on scientific fact; work with public and private agencies on the state and local level, to include this disease in a comprehensive health program.

In 1961, a substantial National Institute of Mental Health grant established the Cooperative Commission on the Study of Alcoholism.

If a minister is known as a militant advocate of prohibition and temperance, and if he treats alcoholism in a moralistic fashion in his public pronouncements, it is likely that some alcoholics who might otherwise seek his help will give him a wide margin.

No cases of alcoholism were listed among the quick cures — i.e., those effected in one or two sessions.

Later in 1966, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare announced the Federal Alcoholism Program, including the establishment within the National Institute of Mental Health of a National Center for the Prevention and Control of Alcoholism.

In other words, those ministers who accept the sickness conception of alcoholism had had over three times the average yearly opportunities available to those who did not accept it.

Alcoholism has always been regarded by the Army as involving sin, but not in the naïve sense of being simply the personal failure of the individual alcoholic.

For one of the greatest needs of the minister is a definition of his role in the problem of alcoholism — a clear picture of where he is needed and in what areas he can function most effectively.

For our purposes, the medical and psychiatric therapies may be divided into three categories according to their purpose: (1) those therapies that aid in the physical rehabilitation of the person suffering from the effects of an acute binge and / or prolonged excessive drinking over many years; (2) those that help to keep the addictive cycle broken and thus maintain sobriety for sufficient time to allow other therapies to take effect; (3) those that aim at lessening the alcoholic's personality problems — both those that contributed to the causation of his addiction and those resulting from the interpersonal chaos of progressive alcoholism.

In an illness like alcoholism, any degree of improvement is valuable, however short the ideal goal.

Concomitant with the rise of the middle class came a marked decline in alcoholism, crime, and births out of wedlock.

Short - term therapy (a few weeks or months) with a psychiatrist who is knowledgeable in the area of alcoholism can be valuable for many alcoholics who do not require longer - term psychiatric treatment.

Psychotherapy — of a supportive and relationship - oriented variety rather than a depth, uncovering type — has a crucial role in the treatment of some alcoholism.