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The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence estimates that 70 percent of an estimated 14.8 million U.S. individuals who use illegal drugs are employed.

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.»

I also know people who hold to the same beliefs regarding homosexuals as fishon but who have gone out of their way to educate themselves on both sides of the debate... and even though they still think homosexuality is a sin, they don't resort to the language and comparasions that fishon does... because they know that homosexuality isn't anything comparable to pedophilia or alcoholism.

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

Our AA magazine says on its masthead: «Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from 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.

This is based on the realistic recognition that as long as a man stays on the Bowery his chances of recovery from alcoholism are very small.

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

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.

Another is the existence of a National Commission on Alcoholism.

A practical discussion of how a pastor can work with AA and get help from it is found in an article by Marty Mann, executive director of the National Council on Alcoholism, entitled «The Pastors» Resources in Dealing with Alcoholics.»

If a minister is fortunate enough to live in one of the eighty - two communities (in thirty - two states) in which there is a local Council on Alcoholism, he should support its work as well as encourage his parishioners to do so.

On the question of the causes of alcoholism, the Yale ministers were again divided into categories.

An excellent general discussion of helping alcoholics is found in Marty Mann's New Primer on Alcoholism, 19.

Bases of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church's official document outlining its position on social issues, calls grave social ills, such as alcoholism and drug addiction, «a retribution for the ideology of consumerism, for the cult of material prosperity, for the lack of spirituality, and the loss of authentic ideals.»

He will see with his own eyes at meetings and at interviews he may witness that the man or woman who has actually been through the appalling experience of alcoholism has an edge on him that no substitute knowledge can replace.

He should have assimilated the kind of information presented in Parts I and II of this book and in Marty Mann's New Primer on Alcoholism.

(The Georgian Clinic in Atlanta has a clinical - training program for clergymen, which focuses on the treatment of alcoholism.)

Second, in our present cultural setting the AA emphasis on a physical component in alcoholism is» probably more effective than the concept of psychological causation in reducing the guilt - fear load and facilitating therapeutic change.

At the laying of the cornerstone for the institution on September 24, 1858, Bellows made a statement upon which those who object to the treatment of alcoholism as a sickness could well ponder today, over one hundred years later:

The issue is to see how shalom is tied into the fight against drug addiction, carnage on our highways due to alcoholism, ecology, commercial sex, oppression of women, racism and the whole range of evils that fills our news on the airwaves and in print.

We have rampant corruption and abuse in our Gurdewara, we have the largest number of female fotiece abortion in India and probably in the rest of the world, we have Gurdewara's based on caste, we have the highest rate alcoholism in England (highest of liver damage), being born and raised in the UK, the girls are now drinking more then the guys.

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

A victim of Korsakov's Syndrome (brought on by alcoholism), Jimmie G. has «retrograde amnesia» and can recall only his youth and early adulthood.

Six constructs make up the essential phenomena of alcoholism: Psychological dependence on a chemical, craving, loss of control, personality regression, denial, and conflicted behavior» (The Treatment of Alcoholism [NY: Brunner / Mazel, Publishers, 1987alcoholism: Psychological dependence on a chemical, craving, loss of control, personality regression, denial, and conflicted behavior» (The Treatment of Alcoholism [NY: Brunner / Mazel, Publishers, 1987Alcoholism [NY: Brunner / Mazel, Publishers, 1987], p. 67).

If God heals alcoholism and AA's are clear in that belief, they can have an enormous impact on the attitudes of government, medicine, religion, and other agencies in determining just how much such entities will welcome the powerful «God - business» solution.

I have covered most all of them all in my title, New Light on Alcoholism: God, Sam Shoemaker, and AA 2d e d. (httD: / / www.dickb.com/newlight.shtml).

We sing it, but we must learn to pray it and mean it (Samuel M. Shoemaker, «Power to Become,» The Evangel [New York: 61 Gramercy Place, December 1954], pp. 40 - 43; see also John 1:12, which is the subject of Sam's article; and Dick B. New Light on Alcoholism: God, Sam Shoemaker, and AA., 2d ed.

Van Impe does a concise and forceful job of setting forth what he believes to be the Bible's position on drink, drunkenness, and «alcoholism.»

has also exerted an enormous influence on the evolution of social policies related to alcohol and alcoholism, and on the evolution of alcoholism treatment....

You can find some earlier documented remarks in Appendix Twelve of the second edition of my Shoemaker title, New Light on Alcoholism, pp. 569 - 74.

And I found he laid his views of alcoholism right on the line and very concisely.

A discussion of this whole matter, which could be read with profit by the minister, is found in an article by Giorgio Lolli entitled «On «Therapeutic» Success in Alcoholism.»

Background books include: the AA and Al - Anon books; Marty Mann's New Primer on Alcoholism; Arnold B. Come, Drinking: A Christian Position (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1964); Wayne E. Oates, Alcohol In and Out of the Church (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1966).

Tiebout's writings on surrender include: «Surrender Versus Compliance in Therapy, with Special Reference to Alcoholism,» QJSA, XIV (1953), 58 - 68; «The Ego Factors in Surrender in Alcoholism,» QJSA, XV (1954), 610 - 21; «Alcoholics Anonymous — an Experiment of Nature,» QJSA, XXII (1961), 52 - 68

This tentative model for understanding the causes of problem drinking is offered in the report of the Cooperative Commission on the Study of Alcoholism: «An individual who (1) responds to beverage alcohol in a certain way, perhaps physiologically determined, by experiencing intense relief and relaxation, and who (2) has certain personality characteristics, such as difficulty in dealing with and overcoming depression, frustration, and anxiety, and who (3) is a member of a culture in which there is both pressure to drink and culturally induced guilt and confusion regarding what kinds of drinking behavior are appropriate, is more likely to develop trouble than will most other people.»

H. J. Clinebell, Jr «Philosophical - Religious Factors in the Etiology and Treatment of Alcoholism,» Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Vol.

Almost all the ministers reported giving talks on alcoholism to all manner of youth and adult groups in public schools, youth camps, AA groups, and various community organizations.

Mark M., age 40, came to his minister because his marriage was on the verge of disintegration because of his alcoholism.

We have seen that success worship on the part of parents is often a factor in the psychological roots of alcoholism.

An understanding of the distinctive contribution of a religious approach to alcoholism is dependent on insight into what might be called the vertical dimension of the alcoholic's problem.

The educational impact of this program on the congregations — in terms of their understanding of alcoholism and their acceptance of alcoholics — has been a valuable by - product.

Both the ethical and the therapeutic approaches to the problem of alcoholism must be based on an understanding of alcohol, drinking, and the physiology and psychology of the human being.

While all of these factors will not operate equally on every level, a combination of one or more will be found at work on each of three levels: (1) factors which make one vulnerable to alcoholism; (2) factors which determine the selection of alcoholism as a symptom, as over against all the other types of psychopathological symptoms; and (3) factors which cause alcoholism to be self - perpetuating once it has reached a certain point.

On the international scene, it is noteworthy that one of the sections of the Twenty - Eighth International Congress on Alcohol and Alcoholism (held in Washington, D.C., October 1968) was on «Religion and the Church.&raquOn the international scene, it is noteworthy that one of the sections of the Twenty - Eighth International Congress on Alcohol and Alcoholism (held in Washington, D.C., October 1968) was on «Religion and the Church.&raquon Alcohol and Alcoholism (held in Washington, D.C., October 1968) was on «Religion and the Church.&raquon «Religion and the Church.»

As we have said, five of them had helped to organize local Councils on Alcoholism.

The most important point in the last chapter was that the prevention of alcoholism can and should occur on several different levels simultaneously.

The importance of avail ability is emphasized by the statistics on alcoholism during Prohibition.

On an article about beating alcoholism, you post two very attractive pictures of alcohol.

Sources of literature and guidance include local Councils on Alcoholism, the National Council on Alcoholism, and denominational social problems agencies.