Sentences with phrase «treatment of alcoholic»

As Tiebout pointed out, the direct treatment of the alcoholic's «runaway symptom» is essential, and it consists of methods by which the cycle of drinking to overcome the effects of previous drinking is blocked.

About two years ago, and for the first time, the federal government through the National Institutes of Health set up a special fund concerned with the care and treatment of alcoholic persons.

For a description of the method of treatment used by Courtenay Baylor, see Dwight Anderson's «The Place of the Lay Therapist in the Treatment of Alcoholics,» QJSA, September, 1944.

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OO is similar to Alcoholics Anonymous and similar groups, as it uses a «12 step» model of treatment and is based on attending regular group meetings and working a spiritual program.

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

Group therapy is perhaps the most effective type of treatment for the alcoholic aside from AA.

The central functions of the local councils are education and prevention, but their Information Centers also advise with alcoholics, relatives, and others concerning finding treatment in their community.

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.

Subsumed under this goal are four operational objectives which may be seen as overlapping stages of treatment: Helping the alcoholic (a) to accept the fact that his drinking is a problem with which he needs help; (b) to obtain, medical treatment; (c) to interrupt the addictive cycle and keep it interrupted by learning to avoid the first drink; (d) to achieve a re-synthesis of his life without alcohol.

The mission's treatment of their problems as moral derelictions must drive many alcoholics away from help by conveying a complete lack of understanding.

The process of physical rehabilitation includes treatment of any of the various diseases of malnutrition and general physical abuse which accompany prolonged alcoholic addiction.

The minister should view the achievement of the goals of treatment as a team effort involving, as a minimum, a physician, an AA member, the alcoholic, and himself.

My ministry as pastor and as staff member of an alcoholism treatment hospital brings me into close counseling contact with, well over a thousand alcoholics every year.

Relieve society of the belief that money thrown into prohibition, pledges, therapy, penalization, incarceration, Treatment programs, medical research, clergy conferences, alcoholism and addiction studies, new «self - help» groups, new church - centered catchall programs, and government intrusion can possibly replace the voluntary, determined, recovery efforts of hurting alcoholics and addicts themselves.

There are many other writers who have taken a crack at definitions — often with an apparent attempt to attack religion, Christianity, Alcoholics Anonymous, the «recovery industry,» addiction medicine, treatment programs, certain scholars, certain historians, and many other kinds of targets.

Alcoholism is the name of the chronic disease from which the alcoholic suffers (Alcoholism: The Total Treatment Approach [IL: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, 1968], p. 6).

(Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1997); E. W. Kenyon, In His Presence: The Secret of Prayer (Kenyon Publishing Society, 1999); E. W. Kenyon, Jesus the Healer (Kenyon Gospel Publishing Society, 2000); E. W. Kenyon, The Hidden Man (WA: Kenyon Publishing Society, 1998); E. W. Kenyon, The Wonderful Name of Jesus (Kenyon's Gospel Publishing Society, 1998); John Baker, Celebrate Recovery (CA: Celebrate Recovery Books, 1994); Bob and Pauline Bartosch, Overcomers Outreach: A Bridge to Recovery (La Habra, CA: Overcomers Outreach, 1994); Cathy Burns, Alcoholics Anonymous Unmasked (PA: Sharing, 1991); Cal Chambers, Two Tracks - One Goal (British Columbia: Credo Publishing Corporation, 1992); Martin M. Davis, The Gospel and the Twelve Steps (San Diego, CA: RPI Publishing Inc., 1993); Len C. Freeland, author of Chapter 28, «The Salvation Army» in (Alcoholism: The Total Treatment Approach, edited by Ronald J. Catanzaro IL: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, 1968); Mark H. Graeser, John A. Lynn, John W. Schoenheit, Don't Blame God: A Biblical Answer to the Problem of Evil, Sin and Suffering.

Urging clergy and men of religion to renew or revive the practice of prayer, particularly meditation; (2) Distinguishing between the use of alcohol which does not produce a chronic alcoholic and that in which there is «the allergic nature of true alcoholism»; (3) Stressing that «elimination of the phenomenon of craving that follows the treatment does not constitute a cure [but that] the final cure rests with themselves [alcoholics in the second phase of alcoholism]»; (4) Advocating «moral psychology» in achieving entire recovery from alcoholism; (5) Describing the success of the AA.

There are several rays of hope on the horizon in the treatment of homeless alcoholics.

The church's role in prevention through early detection and treatment, and prevention through helping the children of alcoholics has been discussed adequately in the previous chapters.

During the early stages of recovery in AA or in an alcoholic treatment facility, the minister's role is mainly a supportive one.

One of the Yale ministers told of working closely with an alcoholic, saying, «He recovered, but only after I too had withdrawn my support, and he was forced to return to a hospital for treatment.»

This chapter reviews the three levels on which alcoholic sickness can be prevented by the counselor and religious community: At the grass roots, through the influencing of symptom selection, and through early detection and treatment.

Generally speaking, an alcoholic's motivation is inadequate, so far as successful treatment is concerned, if he mainly sees alcohol as a solution, wants help in changing those around him or avoiding the consequences of his immature behavior, and / or comes because he was pressured (either by a person or by crisis circumstances of which he feels himself the victim).

Drawing an analogy between this problem and allergic reactions or diabetes is an effective way of communicating to the alcoholic that his illness is a reality — that it's not «all in his mind» — and that obtaining treatment is therefore essential to recovery.

We provided treatment, encouraged such programs as Alcoholics Anonymous, and few would argue that the country was better of f under the crime - ridden weight of the Eighteenth Amendment.

The family's fundamental contributions to helping the alcoholic accept help from AA or any other treatment resource consist of releasing him, as described previously, and of accepting the sickness conception themselves.

What is more, studies have shown that the mates of alcoholics are often almost as disturbed, anxious, and in need of treatment as the alcoholic.

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They saw the treatment process as the opportunity to provide patients with a «community of concern,» a microcosm of healing forces which would offer the patient regular opportunities for facing those issues of human existence which lie below his alcoholic symptoms.

In order to understand the treatment role of the clergyman, we must determine our basic pastoral goals in relation to the alcoholic.

Sometimes this intervention will take the form of direct efforts to motivate the alcoholic toward early treatment and care.

Most alcoholics in the early stages of treatment and care have difficulty in the appropriation of the traditional resources of Scripture, prayer, sermons, and worship.

Prevention through early detection and treatment is directly related to a fourth form of prevention — prevention through helping the children of alcoholics.

Somehow we must devise better means of early detection and motivation - to - treatment of the majority of alcoholics whose problem is still hidden.

(2) A major obstacle to early treatment is removed from the mind of the alcoholic himself.

And, guess what — addiction is one of them, and Vargas has admitted that it took her a long time to face up to the fact that she was an alcoholic and to seek treatment for it.

Alcoholics Anonymous, one of the largest treatment providers for addiction, frames the disorder as a kind of character defect — one that can be fixed and forgiven through willpower and spirituality, not science.

However, in 25 to 30 percent of alcoholics what begins as accumulation of fat in the liver progresses to inflammation, fibrosis and ultimately irreversible cirrhosis, for which the only treatment is a liver transplant.

Research aimed specifically at the treatment needs of alcoholic women has long been spotty, however.

David Overstreet of the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill proposes that the results «raise the possibility that treatments that are effective in smoking cessation may also be beneficial for alcoholics.»

In recent years, a number of clinical studies have suggested that «matching» particular types of alcoholics with particular treatments — for example, teaching someone with poor impulse control how to think through actions before taking them — would help them quit drinking.

Interestingly, alcoholics have a faster conversion of T4 to T3 and therefore the Lo carb shift to T4 may be an unexpected treatment for them (or hindrance).

Milk Thistle is extraordinarily useful in the treatment of liver disease such as alcoholic hepatitis, cirrhosis, liver poisoning and viral hepatitis.

At home, Andrew (Dane DeHaan, TV's In Treatment) dotes on his terminally ill mother (Bo Petersen, Endgame) whilst coping with abuse from his alcoholic father (Michael Kelly, The Adjustment Bureau); at school, he bears the brunt of brute force from bullies.

The plot is a standard recollection scenario centred on Nick Carraway (a wan and unfocussed Tobey Maguire), now a ravaged alcoholic writer seeking sanitarium treatment under Dr Perkins (Jack Thompson, one of many great Aussie actors who turn up for three lines and a rare Hollywood - size paycheque).

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Since there were thus no domestic beverages in competition with the imported contested alcoholic beverages, there could be no disadvantageous treatment and thus no violation of Article 16 EEA (para 65).

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