Cooperating with a community project to encourage recognition and
early treatment of alcoholism and other emotional problems (secondary prevention)
It is obvious from this that
the treatment of alcoholism is a team job.
An excellent survey of therapies by Ruth Fox, medical director of the National Council on Alcoholism, is presented in a journal article: «A Multidisciplinary Approach to
the Treatment 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.
Clinebell, Howard J, Jr. «Philosophical - Religious Factors in the Etiology and
Treatment of Alcoholism.»
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:
Turner made over 70,000 calls on potential subscribers to the work and met with all the stock objections to
the treatment of alcoholism as a disease.
For a more comprehensive discussion of how this operates see: Clinebell, «Plulosophical - Religious Factors in the Etiology and
Treatment of Alcoholism.»
For a more comprehensive discussion of the role of ultimate or existential anxiety in alcoholism, see Howard J. Clinebell, Jr., «Philosophical - Religious Factors in the Etiology and
Treatment of Alcoholism,» QJSA, September, 1963.
Howard Clinebell, «Philosophical - Religious Factors in the Etiology and
Treatment of Alcoholism,» p. 477.
The reason for this seems to be that AA itself, by its dramatic success based on
the treatment of alcoholism as an illness, has had a tremendous educational impact.
(For a comprehensive discussion of the use of alcohol as a religious substitute, see «Philosophical - Religious Factors in the Etiology and
Treatment of Alcoholism,» by H. J. Clinebell, Jr., Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol (Fall, 1965).
She adds sadly, «We're about where
the treatment of alcoholism was 30 years ago.»
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The treatment of alcoholism involves a complete psychological, spiritual and emotional shift, whereby victims of the disease are released at the core of their being from the compulsion to drink.»
McIntire is exploring how the discovery of the drunkenness gene could aid in
the treatment of alcoholism.
The team — led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania — also found that the same protective response may be involved in aversion to alcohol and could therefore help in
the treatment of alcoholism.
These include acamprosate or naltrexone in
the treatment of alcoholism, or methadone or buprenorphine maintenance therapy in the case of opioid addiction.
An extract of the Chinese herb kudzu dramatically reduces drinking and may be useful in
the treatment of alcoholism and curbing binge drinking, according to a new study by McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School researchers.
Study suggests targeting RGS6 protein might allow
both treatment of alcoholism and prevention of alcohol - induced heart and liver damage
Treatment of alcoholism can involve the intake of medications whose purpose is to alleviate withdrawal symptoms.
Treatment of nervous or mental disorders, except as stated in the Schedule of Benefits, or
treatment of alcoholism or drug abuse, except as provided for treatment of mental or nervous disorders, according to the Schedule of Benefits;
As such, New York Pathways follows the addiction treatment model that was originally formulated for
the treatment of alcoholism and chemical dependency, which treats the addiction as the primary disorder rather than a symptom of an underlying condition.
Participants will be able to identify and describe the current modalities most used
the treatment of alcoholism and drug addiction.
In a previous post on the value and efficacy of Marital and Family Therapy in
the Treatment of Alcoholism, I addressed the multigenerational relational trauma of alcohol abuse and dependence.
CST is also used in
the treatment of alcoholism.