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The Importance Of An Alcohol Support Group   By: brian diggins
All addicts suffer from delusional thinking. It is well recognized by many experts on addiction recovery, that delusional thinking can be a major causative factor instigating alcoholic relapse. This is because the patterns of delusional thinking don’t cease to operate simply because an individual enters into a state of abstinence.(read entire article)
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Achieving An Alcoholic Recovery   By: brian diggins
Alcoholics are sick both in mind and in body…and successful alcohol treatment must heal them on both fronts. As insane as alcoholics can be when in the grips of the disease of alcoholism, the alcoholic may really believe they can still have that first drink the next morning, hoping to yield a different result, maybe they believe they can stop after the first drink or two, maybe they believe they can continue drinking "normally" and not to excess that eventually leads to a blackout.(read entire article)
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Adult Children Of Alcoholics Or Passing The Buck?   By: brian diggins
From what I’ve been able to ascertain the term “Children of Alcoholics” was first coined in 1945, by a psychiatrist who was treating a large number of people suffering from alcoholism. Apparently He began to notice a recurring pattern of family history of alcoholism in one or both parents of the patients.(read entire article)
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Dual Prognosis Mental Illness And Alcoholism   By: brian diggins
Alcoholism has a significant adverse impact on mental health. Alcohol dependence and abuse are among the most common mental disorders. In addition, although the biological mechanisms underpinning alcoholism are uncertain, some risk factors, including social environment, emotional health and genetic predisposition, have been identified.(read entire article)
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Types Of Alcohol Support Groups   By: brian diggins
Most support groups for alcohol and other drug addictions are 12-Step Groups. Twelve-Step Groups are a worldwide 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 and other drug addictions.(read entire article)
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Substance Abuse And The Child Welfare System   By: brian diggins
Substance abuse is the overindulgence in and dependence of a drug or other chemical leading to effects that are detrimental to the individual's physical and mental health, or the welfare of others. Substance abuse may be a contributing factor for between one-third and two-thirds of maltreated children in the child welfare system.(read entire article)
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Hot Tips To Success In Recovery   By: brian diggins
Many Alcohol and Drug Recovery Programs and Support Groups predicate their treatment upon the erroneous theory that all addiction is a disease.(read entire article)
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Hot Tips For Managing Addiction Relapse   By: brian diggins
Many people joke about quitting an addiction, my father used to say, “Quitting drinking and smoking is easy, I do it every day just before bed.”(read entire article)
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How To Successfully Quit Addiction   By: brian diggins
One tool you can use to successfully quit addiction is Guided Imagery or Visualization. Both work about the same way and what it boils down to is this, in guided imagery the “patient” freely fantasizes about a situation until they reach an irresolvable impasse, at which point the therapist will lead the person to a safe resolution.(read entire article)
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Demented Producer Hates Insurance Companies   By: brian diggins
I know most people hate, even loathe, insurance companies. Most especially, the Health Insurance Companies. They are a necessary evil in our day and age, with the ridiculous rise of heath care costs, but many consider them to be a loathsome boil on the butts of America. They purport to be the protectors of the individual wealth, saving us from economic ruin as a result of catastrophic medical expense.(read entire article)
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Category : Insurance