Sentences with phrase «which alcoholic»

The mean total number of drinks consumed during the 12 week trial was lower in the fluoxetine group than in the placebo group (70 v 216, p < 0.03) as was the mean number of days on which alcoholic drinks were consumed during the trial (11 v 20, p < 0.05).

Richard Billingham, the photographer who has made art out of images of his dysfunctional family, in their tower block home which his alcoholic father Ray rarely lives, is also nominated for his recent startling change of direction to deserted urban streetscapes under blazing blue skies.

This gooey interactive will tell you which alcoholic beverages are the most popular in over 180 countries around the world.

This table details the health warning labeling requirements to which alcoholic beverages are subject in several countries.

The heart of this approach is the establishment of a trustful relationship which then becomes the instrument by which the alcoholic is helped to face reality with reference to his drinking.

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.

A hangover period following a binge may present a «little bottom» — i.e., a state of emotional receptivity during which the alcoholic's defenses against recognizing his need for help are temporarily cracked by the physical and emotional pain of the experience.

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).

It provides a supportive social environment in which the alcoholic's desocialized, semiparalyzed ego can acquire enough strength, by identifying with an accepting group, to renew its functioning.

The internist is equipped to treat the physiological problems and administer Antabuse; the psychologist is trained to do testing through which the alcoholic's therapeutic needs can be evaluated, and he may be trained to do research and psychotherapy; the psychiatrist, being a medical doctor like the internist, can prescribe medication, but his unique skills are in the area of individual and group therapy and their relationship to drug therapies; the social worker may be trained to help the alcoholic work through his marital and vocational problems and do group as well as individual therapy; the social worker may also work with spouses; the pastoral counselor is specially equipped by training to help the alcoholic with his «spiritual» problems as these relate to his sobriety and his interpersonal relationships; he may also be trained to do group and marital counseling; 40.

Fortunate is the pastor who lives in one of the 220 areas in the United States and Canada in which alcoholic clinics are available for referral.

While his body is wracking from the physical effects of prolonged inebriety, the Bowery technique has created a «bottom,» an emotional crisis, in which the alcoholic is open to help.

Too rapid transfer of responsibility to AA can constitute a problem in those cases in which the alcoholic needs both psychiatric help and AA.

The dependent relationship in Alt allows the course of social regression which the alcoholic has followed to be reversed.

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.

Continuing the practical orientation of the opening chapters, Dr. Clinebell describes in detail the way in which Alcoholics Anonymous began and grew,, and how it applies the insights of psychology and religion effectively to the sickness called alcoholism.

However, the extent of physical disturbance which some alcoholics can hide even in the advanced stages of the illness is often amazing.

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Meanwhile, strong demand for Mexican beers likely helped boost fourth - quarter sales for alcoholic beverages company Constellation Brands (STZ), which reports its quarterly earnings on Wednesday.

A host of other Suntory liquors and alcoholic beverages will also make the landmark journey to the intergalactic astronaut digs, which orbits some 220 miles above our big blue marble.

Lichine and many other rosé producers Fortune interviewed touted strong growth for their pink - tinted alcoholic beverages, which contrary to popular belief, can greatly vary in terms of sweetness and can even be noticeably dry.

His rough upbringing — which includes a revolving door of stepfathers, an alcoholic mother who chased him around with a knife, and a period of homelessness — makes a compelling origin story, a tale he still emotionally unspools at his seminars decades later.

According to a CNBC report Tuesday afternoon, Brown - Forman Corp. — which also makes Jack Daniel's whiskey, Herradura tequila and Chambord liqueur — has received an offer from Constellation Brands Inc., one of the busiest acquirers lately in the alcoholic beverage space.

The style, which has exploded to the point that IPA sub-styles are positioned to outgrow entire segments of alcoholic beverages, owns 27.1 percent of craft's overall dollar share.

The Robert Mondavi brand is owned by alcoholic beverage maker Constellation Brands, which bills itself on its website as the world's top premium wine producer.

100,000: The number of new places to buy an alcoholic beverage in the U.S. that have been added since 2007, according to Nielsen, which notes the expansion of drinking outlets in places like dart clubs, movie theaters, and social ping pong establishments.

Of course, they're ignoring the fact that an alcoholic is destroying themselves and hurting those around them by being addicted to alcohol and that a gay person is doing neither (remember we're talking about those involved in or seeking out loving, committed, monogamous relationships... not promiscuous behavior which can be physically and emotionally damaging).

Rather than just leave a comment on his post, which I have, I want to post about it myself.Toby rightly points out that the great American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr created the now famous «serenity prayer», used by Alcoholics Anonymous for years.

In the spring it was decided to publish a book which would record the collective experiences of the early members to help other alcoholics.

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.

The bridge of communication which one alcoholic is able to establish with another is being constructed.

It is significant that half of these steps are devoted to altering the attitudes and interpersonal frictions which, in alcoholics, tend to produce a binge.

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

It does this by providing the alcoholic with certain tools such as the twenty - four hour plan which it teaches him to use to control the craving.

Each represents the relaxing of the perfectionistic ego - image or self - concept which is the alcoholic's defense and his curse.

If I were asked to give my strongest impression resulting from the study which underlies this book, it would be this: In all the dark history of the handling of the problem of alcoholism, the brightest ray of hope and help is Alcoholics Anonymous!

The word «moral» is a stumbling - block for him at first until Harry explains that it simply means those feelings and actions, past and present, which tend to make an alcoholic drink.

Thus he does not feel the extreme burden, which would eventually become unbearable to his alcoholic ego, of being entirely the recipient in the helper - helped relation.

Anonymity also casts an atmosphere of clandestineness around the movement which gives it ~ certain added appeal, especially for those alcoholics who are in the «gang» stage of psychosocial development.

Though I do think that many alcoholics don't have direct control over their situation because of a chemical dependancy that is produced due to an individuals genetics, personality, and levels of dependency (which is not a negative thing per say, it's just that certain people do have genetic predispositions to addiction).

The AA conception of alcoholism — recognizing a physical factor in the sickness — renders the alcoholic's behavior intelligible to himself and greatly reduces the fear and guilt which were supplying him with added desire for the «blessed oblivion» of alcohol.

Unlike the rescue mission which is usually an isolated entity, the Skid Row corps and the Social Service Center of the «Sally» (as the organization is known on Skid Row) are a part of a network of installations and services, the therapeutic resources of which are all available for helping alcoholics.

In this day in which teams of scientists are devoting their skill to the problem of helping alcoholics and AA has achieved such impressive success in leading thousands to sobriety, the pastor examines his own meager success in the field and wonders whether he should leave such work to the scientists and to AA.

The various methods which have proved useful in motivating the resistant alcoholic will be discussed in the next chapter.

How to understand the alcoholic and what can be done for him rank first and second in the list of problems which prove most puzzling [to religious leaders].

The pastor wants to discover these situations within his parish, not only because the alcoholic and his family need help which he may be able to give, but because help rendered at this stage of the illness may save them from years of suffering.

A distinctive feature of the Bowery Corps program is Alcoholic Night, which is held once a week.

He should see himself as the coordinator of the team in providing help for those alcoholics who come to him, unless there is some other persons or agency which can fulfill this function more efficiently.

Sixteen physicians, all with wide experience in treating alcoholics, were invited by the editor of the journal which published the Davies report to comment on it.

The alcoholic's inferiority is reduced not by identifying with a powerful authority - figure, but by becoming aware of his «higher and diviner self» which is his most real self.

We will begin in this chapter with the evangelistic - authoritarian approach which has been used chiefly with low - bottom, homeless alcoholics.