Sentences with phrase «use of alcoholic»

Breastfeeding mothers should avoid the use of alcoholic beverages, because alcohol is concentrated in breast milk and its use can inhibit milk production.

They are a radical reduction of the use of sugar, the elimination of coffee and other stimulants, the forswearing or minimal use of alcoholic beverages, the substitution of organically grown vegetables for chemically fertilized ones and the derivation of proteins from beans, whole grains, and, in moderation, eggs and cheese.

There can be no doubt that the use of alcoholic beverages in our culture is encompassed by powerful status implications.

A seventh matter of considerable importance to health is the use of alcoholic beverages.

Their most successful campaign was that which finally made the use of alcoholic beverages illegal.

Rather, most believers in America before 1800 «regarded the moderate use of alcoholic beverages, particularly beer and wine, as a privileged blessing from a gracious God.»

Not exact matches

«One of the diagnostic questions used to determine whether you're an alcoholic is whether your drinking has interfered with your work.

«Some recipients would do fine with vouchers that they could use for any social services,» Olasky explains, «but it would be irresponsible to place unconstrained vouchers in the hands of addicts, alcoholics, and others not committed to changing their lives.»

Nevertheless, when one reads, for instance, of how the Eli Lilly company used homeless alcoholics for testing experimental drugs, it is hard not to believe that such guinea pigs are being exploited, even if they may welcome their improved living conditions during the course of the research.

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.

So Laaser reached out to secular 12 - step programs, using Alcoholics Anonymous» framework as a guide to reaching what he called sexual «sobriety,» abstaining from sex outside of marriage and avoiding masturbation.

Most importantly, note this: I am a Christian, I'm gay, I'm a recovering alcoholic, I believe in Evolution, I believe the universe is 13 billion years old and that the Earth is 4.5 or so billion years old, I believe man evolved from lower primates and that Adam was the first man who God gave a soul and sentience, I do not believe in hell but I do believe in Satan, I do not believe the Bible is a book of rules meant to imprison man or condemn him but that it is rather a «Human Existence for Dummies» guide, I believe Christ was the son of God but I do not believe Christianity is the only «valid» religion, I do not believe atheists will go to hell, while the English Bible says God should be feared, the Hebrew word used for fear, «yara», such as that used in the Book of Job, actually means respect / reverence, not fear as one would fear death or a spider.

An alcoholic in AA uses the power of the groups experience, strength, and hope in getting sober and staying sober.

The term «sponsor» came into use as a result of certain hospital programs which admitted alcoholics only if they were sponsored by an AA member.

Yet, it prevents him from using this as an alibi by adding that the factor which keeps the disease from being controlled is «alcoholic thinking» — selfishness, fear, resentment, lack of humility — matters for which the alcoholic is responsible.

It is noteworthy that although Worcester began by using hypnosis in many different types of difficulties, he eventually limited it to use with some alcoholics.

It is clear that caution is indicated in the use of any mood - changing drug by alcoholics and other addiction - prone persons.

The use of food and shelter as «bait» to get the alcoholic into the service enhances his negativism and resentment of religious institutions, making it more difficult to reach him with religious help.

One of the more outspoken alcoholics I interviewed told of a young minister who apparently tried to use the AA group as a means of obtaining members for his church.

Whether or not one uses the term «original sin» — and its usefulness has certainly been limited by the manner in which it has been employed by the literalists — the facts of experience which men were trying to verbalize when they coined the term must be taken into account in understanding the alcoholic and his situation.

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.

The pastor's role and uses of community resources vary at each stage of the recovery process, and from one alcoholic to another.

Most of the ministers reported working closely with AA, and the majority of them had a positive attitude toward the use of psychiatric referral with alcoholics when needed.

If it were true that emphasizing the sickness conception of alcoholism tends to deter the alcoholic from getting help because he now has an excuse for his trouble, a case could be made against the use of the conception.

Its program of service and ministry has demonstrated that the clergy can be trained for a special ministry to alcoholics, provided there are more institutions that can use their services as active members of the staff cooperating with others.

Alcoholics Anonymous, being «spiritual, not religious,» doesn't use the Bible at all; rather it uses another sacred text, the inspired Word of God as expressed through Bill Wilson, the Big Book... Unlike the Oxford Group, which claimed salvation and redemption by Jesus through the Oxford Group, AA proclaims «recovery» by one s «Higher Power» through the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous (Ken Ragge, The Real AA: Behind the Myth of 12 - Step Recovery [AZ: Sharp Press, 1998], pp. 82 - 83).

Regrettably for A.A., I believe, the writer of A.A.'s official biography of Dr. Bob Smith (DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers) then gratuitously added the following statement — which was not at all a part of the Amos report: «It might also be noted that many terms now considered by A.A.'s to be misleading were then used, not only by non-A.A.'s discussing the movement, but sometimes by members themselves: «cure,» «ex-alcoholic,» «reformed alcoholic»» (DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers, pp. 135 - 36).

(2) There is no clear dichotomy between either alcoholics and non-alcoholics, or between prealcoholics and nonprealcoholics even though individuals may have differing susceptibility to both the use of alcohol and the development of alcohol problems as a result of genetic, physiological, psychological, and sociocultural factors.

How It Worked: The Story of Clarence H Snyder and the Early Days of Alcoholics Anonymous in Cleveland Ohio (NY: AA Big Book Study Group, 1997), pp. 6, 71, 138, 157, 235; and the «Great Physician» reference to Jesus Christ was in common use among other Pioneer AAs, by their New York mentor Dr. Silkworth, and their Oxford Group friends.

For alcoholics who have tried and failed time after time to stay sober by themselves, for alcoholics who have tried and failed after using any one of innumerable techniques, that which finally does keep one sober becomes «God» (Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham, The Spirituality of Imperfection: Modern Wisdom from Classic Stories [New York: Bantam Books, 1992], p. 208; bold face added).

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.

At first the temperance movement in America was purely a voluntary society that aimed at temperate use of milder alcoholic beverages.

A major block in the spiritual life of the drinking alcoholic, which often continues as a barrier during his sober life, is a magical understanding and use of religion.

After some degree of trust exists between the alcoholic and the pastor, the use of constructive confrontation may be in order.

Why is it that of the eighty million people in our country who use alcohol, at least seventy - four million do not become alcoholics?

The fact that so few use alcohol now and, more important, that most of them have established adequate personal lives would seem to give good reason to expect that few, if any, would become alcoholics.

The use of personal growth groups as an aid in the spiritual development of recovered alcoholics was suggested in Chapter 10.

The counselor should use great caution in deciding to do anything that might have the effect of protecting the drinking alcoholic from the normal consequences of his irresponsible behavior.

In most cases, it is not necessary to use such a calculated approach to «withdrawing the props» which have been supporting the alcoholic's denial of reality about his drinking.

Since there are at least four times as many wives as husbands of alcoholics, the words «she» and «wife» will be used generally throughout this discussion.

This may be accomplished by using the same methods as those described in Chapter 8 for bringing the hidden alcoholic out of hiding.

The «suggestions for newcomers» in an Al - Anon brochure can be used by the pastor with families of alcoholics.

We know that if a person lives in a group that encourages the use of alcohol to excess and as a means of interpersonal adjustment, he may become an alcoholic even if he has a relatively adequate personality.

The word «alcoholic» will be used in this book to refer only to the three addictive types — steady, plateau, and periodic (Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon)-- in which loss of control is a crucial factor which must be faced in counseling.

Weaving the story of Mary Magdalene through her own, Nadia reclaims the term «pastrix» (used derisively by some Christians who refuse to recognize female pastors) to highlight the absurdity and goodness of a God who would choose someone like her to be a «pastor to her people» — alcoholics, depressives, misfits, and cynics.

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Corporate Social Responsibility — Part I: The UK The first part of March's management briefing looks at the alcoholic drinks industry's use of corporate social responsibility in the UK.

Beverage cans — the largest metal can category (74.5 % of total can shipments in 2014)-- are used to package nonalcoholic beverages as well as beer and other alcoholic beverages such as flavored malt beverages and hard cider.

I just made a variation of your recipe last night, as an alternative to an alcoholic Friday night drink - Just used the VitaMix to blend 12 oz pure coconut water, 1 cup frozen pineapple, a bout 1 TBLSP peeled fresh ginger and 1TBLSP lime juice.