Article by Focusapps06

It may be that you are near to develop the liver disease if you are doing excess consumption of alcohol. It is considered major cause of liver disease. Overconsumption of alcohol can lead to fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis and cirrhosis. This condition is known as alcoholic liver disease. It can occur due to acute inflammation. Women are more susceptible to this disease than men. In the advance stage, it’s difficult to diagnose alcoholic liver disease symptoms. There may be many things behind the alcohol liver disease causes. When alcohol reach to the liver it becomes 80% detoxified, yet how it damages the liver is not completely understood. There are some risk factors that can cause this disease. These are:

• If alcohol is taken in excess quantity such as 60 to 80g per day for more than 20 years.

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Article by Holisticdrugrehab

When it comes to treating addiction to drug or alcohol, the principal factor that acts as a hurdle is the negative attitude of the addict to his problem. It is a strange scenario as the addict feels that nothing is wrong and everyone is making an unnecessary fuss about the issue. He feels that there is simply no problem with him/her and on the contrary, everyone else is perceived to be problematic to that person. Drug and alcohol intervention specialists can help the addict in such cases to re-orient his psychological mechanism and accept the problem in order to seek effective treatment. The basic premise on which these interventions operate is that it is best not to leave things as they are and continue to plan the best approaches towards the addict so that he/she does not feel that special attention is being given to him/her. Meanwhile, the prudent option is to gather as much information as possible from the family or the surroundings about the type of drug taken by the individual and the way he behaves and the frequency of drug intake.The methods of drug and alcohol intervention differ according to the background of the addict and the degree of addiction. For example, the way of intervention for someone who has just started taking drugs will definitely be different from the one who is quite deeply addicted.

People found to be addicted do not actually comprehend the harshness of their crisis. The only objective for them is to get access to the drug, regardless of the consequences. They do not consider any other factors – social, health or legal. However, no matter what type of drug the person is taking, trained expert assistance is always available from drug and alcohol intervention professionals. They can provide a precise explanation of the user’s actions to make them understand the impact of addiction. Moreover, interventionists know the different ways of handling addicts with alcoholism, heroin addiction, cocaine addiction or those who are taking inhalants or methamphetamine.

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Question by coolRyder: How WAS Alcoholism treated back then?
compared to todayy….I need to know for my stupid project !
at ANY time period, people. it doesn’t matter, as long as its in the past.

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Article by Jared Akers

As a recovering alcoholic, each day I learn more about alcoholism treatment. I have discovered that healing the relationship with myself is my treatment for alcoholism. A few years ago when I only had a couple months sober, I was standing outside an AA central office talking with my sponsor and another gentlemen who had many years of sobriety. The gentlemen said, “Recovery is all about being OK with yourself.” The longer I’m sober and work on my recovery, the more I realize how true this is. Not just for a recovering alcoholic, but for most people.

After looking back, I realize my entire life was spent comparing myself to others. I would see myself through other people’s eyes, trying to be what I thought people viewed as successful and popular. I was always the life of the party and full of cheer and good times. At least that’s what it looked like on the outside. I thought if I looked good on the outside, I must be good on the inside. Maybe this sounds confusing, that’s OK, it was for me also.

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Question by Pam H: My brother,a diagnosed alcoholic, has hand tremors which he says is Parkinsons Disease. True?
He takes no medication and,unfortunately, has no intention of stopping his drinking. This entire scenario has recently become more serious since my Mom (who always referred to AA as a “group of religious fanatics”, stating more than once, he “didn’t NEED to go to AA because he wasn’t an alcoholic”) passed 3mos. ago. He has received SSDisability for 10 years based on a diagnosis of “mental illness”; and my mother’s ability (and influence being a politician) finding a psychiatrist who would say this and the fact he was getting a divorce, moving back to my parents, and hadn’t worked in years! My mother and I parented in very different ways, but I still loved her; I just didn’t understand her.In addition to his alcoholism he is also a pathological liar and actually collected SSDisability AND worked a full-time job for 3 yrs…until he was caught. Of course my Mom blamed the guy at SS who “lied” to my brother…oh, well.

Before she entered the hospital for surgery, Mom appointed my twin brothers, the youngest brothers, as co-executors. I’m the oldest and only daughter, but my Mom was a feminist who was a chauvinist and it really didn’t matter to me anyway…until now. My brother(the one with the drinking problem) in the meantime, had found someone on the internet, remarried and, of course, both he and his wife moved in with my parents. Previously to Mom going to the hospital, she signed over the house and $ 60,000 to my brother already living there (let’s call him “g” from now on). G and his wife, who took EXCELLENT care of Dad, paid the house taxes, insurance, utilities, fuel oil and maintenance bills out of the $ 60,000. Due to a medical snafu, Mom never returned home and spent the next 3 yrs in a nursing home; Dad, already suffering from dementia, was put into the same nursing home and died a year TO THE DAY before my Mom. Now enter my brothers, the co-executors.

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Article by Sunset Malibu

Every treatment program at Sunset Malibu’s exclusive private drug rehab facility is designed for a specific individual resident. That, in a nutshell, is what distinguishes Sunset Malibu from its competitors. The fact of the matter is that too many “exclusive” Malibu drug and alcohol rehab centers treat every client the same way, as if what worked for one should somehow work for them all. But that simply isn’t the case—which is why Sunset Malibu takes special pride in doing things differently.

Sunset Malibu’s clinical experts conduct a thorough one-on-one evaluation of every new client. They then use the results of that evaluation to construct a personally-tailored alcohol and drug treatment plan, complete with medical, physical, and emotional dimensions. The result is a holistic approach to the healing process, one that makes a world of difference for the residents who call Sunset home. All that remains, now, is for you to make the right choice.

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Question by Marissa C: Question about alcohol dependence and withdrawal symptoms?
If someone who drinks 10+ beers per day quit drinking would they still suffer from symptoms of alcohol withdrawal? To clarify, this person currently spends several hours per day sober. And no, I’m not talking about myself.
I’m talking about my husband. He claims he no longer suffers from hangovers. Personally, I think he has just forgotten what it feels like not to be hung over.

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Article by Donna Sparks

Barbiturate was one of the most effective drug used to prevent and to treat alcoholism withdrawal. However, because of their adverse side effects, barbiturates are now largely replaced by benzodiazepines mainly since benzodiazepines are significantly less dangerous, particularly in overdose. That is the main reason for its rapid decline. Barbiturates, although effective as treatment or as preventive measure for withdrawal syndromes to alcoholism, are also known to cause severe addiction and overdose, the latter being the most frequent case.

Overdose to BarbiturateCompared to benzodiazepines, barbiturates are known to cause rapid overdose. An overdose results when a person takes a larger-than-prescribed dose of a drug, usually because of increased tolerance to the drug. With regular use, tolerance to the effects of barbiturates develops. According to teen treatment center therapists, this in turn may leads to a need for increasing doses of the drug to get the original desired pharmacological or therapeutic effect. Although benzodiazepines are known to cause quick tolerance than barbiturates, its overdose level is minimal compared to that of barbiturates’. Common symptoms of barbiturate overdose include:

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