Not exact matches
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.»
In collaboration with Indiana University and the National Institute
on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism (NIAAA), Intercept is supporting a blinded Phase 2 trial treating 60 patients with alcoholic hepatitis (NCT02039219
on clinicaltrials.gov).
It could be anywhere from Drug addiction,
alcoholism, pornography, and the list goes
on, including those who have been baby Christians for 20 years or more.
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.
Growing up in a verbally and physically abusive home due to
alcoholism I defaulted to anger and drinking as coping mechanisms as a teen and
on through college.
He also stressed the need for cooperation with all who work
on the
alcoholism problem, including the more than one hundred agencies (in the U.S. and Canada) now engaged in rehabilitation, research, and alcohol education.
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.
It is a vital link in the Army's frontline attack
on 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.
He calmly explained that
alcoholism, like lung cancer caused by cigarettes or diabetes brought
on by obesity, is a legitimate disease, even if it arises from an avoidable indulgence.
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.
Father Ford's books
on the subject include: Depth Psychology, Morality and
Alcoholism (Weston, Mass.: West College Press, 1951) and What About Your Drinking?
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:
New Primer
on Alcoholism, pp. 202 - 3.
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.
The statistics
on alcoholism recovery are not nearly as clear as has been suggested here.
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, 1987
alcoholism: Psychological dependence
on a chemical, craving, loss of control, personality regression, denial, and conflicted behavior» (The Treatment of
Alcoholism [NY: Brunner / Mazel, Publishers, 1987
Alcoholism [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.
days, I had never related recovery from
alcoholism with relying
on God and trying to live life His way.
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.
Although AA is mindful that dependence can be dangerous in therapeutic relations, it is their experience that dependence
on an AA group or
on a higher «Power» has not produced any disastrous results (Morris E. Chafetz and Harold W. Demone, Jr.,
Alcoholism & Society [NY: Oxford University Press, 1962], p. 150; bold face added).
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.»
You can find these and many other important verses quoted in The Runner's Bible and in New Light
on Alcoholism, 2d ed., p. 23).
has also exerted an enormous influence
on the evolution of social policies related to alcohol and
alcoholism, and
on the evolution of
alcoholism treatment....
Dr. Silkworth,
on the other hand, said, «clinically, we have no cure for chronic
alcoholism....
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.