It is considered to be a very tricky affair to prepare a senior patient for alcohol treatment. Seniors have several problems and issues connected with their addiction and they will never directly become willing for treatment. The rate of denial associated with their treatment is quite high. In addition, there are the following problems:-

1. Seniors will not accept that they have any problem with their alcoholism. They will argue that they have been consuming alcohol since a very long time and that it suits them well. Due to this reason, they will not want to accept that they need any kind of treatment.

Read the rest of this entry

Take a close look at the recent record of the National Institute of Mental Health in the United States. It will put you under terse shock. The Institute has deciphered a close connection between depression and addiction and it is not simply a hypothesis. The statistical figure brings out a clear picture that in every three persons suffering from depression at least two will be there who in some way or the other is an addict, either drugs or alcohol. It really indicates a gruesome situation.

The Institute has also put the reason behind such a practice forward. Drugs become a readymade refuge to forget all sorts of frustrations and depressing elements. Thus to survive in a depressing juncture of life, drugs or alcohol gives them the heavenly pleasure perhaps.

Read the rest of this entry

To prepare a senior for the alcohol treatment program seems to be most difficult task. There are lot of issues and problems associated with their addiction. One of them is that they will never easily be willing for the treatment. This denial is much higher amongst the senior persons, also there are following problems associated to them:-

1. The biggest problem is the denial. They will not easily accept that they have any problem with their alcoholism. They feel that consuming alcohol suits their status and also they have been consuming alcohol since a very long time. Due to this reason, they will not want to accept that they need any kind of treatment.

Read the rest of this entry

Alcoholic is never be someone dream. All of us know exactly that we must avoid this problem. But sometimes, it comes along with lifestyle, underpressure condition, or stress. Commonly people start from binge drinking then follow by alcohol abuse, and become alcoholism when they loose their control.

Be careful, occasional drinking not only could make you be an addict; it can also lead to death! Mostly they want to stop drinking. Well, then, why can’t people do that? The first reason is fear. They are afraid of what they are going to do without alcohol in their lives. Like people who smoke can’t imagine what they will do without cigarette in their hand.

Read the rest of this entry

The Vicious Cycle of Adult ADD, Shame and Compulsive Sexuality

Brian is an investment banker in his early forties who, in graduate business school, first began to visit prostitutes, spend money on phone sex, compulsively masturbate and, finally spend as much as 5-10 hours a day looking at internet porn. When sexually acting out, he would feel that someone had turned on his brain for the first time. On the net, he would suddenly feel alive. He had energy and felt the euphoria that sexual immersion seductively provides. His mind slowed down; he didn’t need to keep moving.

Since his teens, he had masturbated nearly every night before going to sleep and sometimes once or twice during the day as well. He was shy in school and dated infrequently, partly from his feelings of inadequacy from the persistent inability to concentrate, multiple failures, disapproval from parents, teachers and peers and the consequent demoralization that contributed to low self-esteem. Undergraduate school had been difficult for him. Complex mathematical formulations from his economics courses were tape-recorded while he fantasized about looking under the girl’s shirt who sat next to him. He was chronically late at classes, his dorm was messy and his clothes were disheveled. He seemed to live in another world.

Read the rest of this entry

Alcohol is a word that appears so much in our daily lives and culture that it is difficult for a non-alcoholic to imagine a life of alcohol addiction. Yet, no matter how much one may despise the term and the addiction, psychiatrists describe an alcoholic as one who exhibits any or all of these qualities: an irresistible thirst for alcohol, total loss of control once he or she starts drinking, and a certain tendency of relapse into the addiction after a session of rehabilitation.

Effects of alcohol: Alcohol dependency can have serious and deleterious effects on the individual’s health, and more importantly, on the family.

Read the rest of this entry

Alcohol Use and Abuse Addiction and Habituation

Problem and Solution.

Summary: Although there is no definition of “addiction” that is universally accepted, in general, addiction refers to a physiological and psychological dependency on a drug. While some drugs of abuse induce physiological addiction, others do not. Alternatively, some drugs that are physiologically addictive generally are not abused (e.g., caffeine). Tolerance to drug effects, and withdrawal symptoms upon abrupt cessation of use, which develop over time, are characteristic features of physiological addiction. “Habituation” is the term used to refer to psychological dependence on a drug. Some drugs of abuse are highly rewarding because of their influence on reinforcing neurobiological processes, but they do not necessarily result in “tissue” related withdrawal symptoms. Cessation of such drugs may lead primarily to subjective craving due to previous drug conditioning (perhaps true of some marijuana users) and craving may be more readily evoked or deeply conditioned among some persons than others (“addictive personalities”). Primary methods of assessment of addiction and habituation are completed through clinical interviews or self-report surveys (e.g., American Psychiatric Association DSM-IV, World Health Organization ICD-10). Treatment paradigms for the cessation of addiction begin with initial detoxification or withdrawal, followed by inpatient or outpatient program participation (e.g., 12-step programs, milieu, cognitive-behavioral, or behavioral). Pharmacological efforts (e.g., methadone maintenance) may be used as harm-reduction strategies among those who seem unable to quit drug use.

Read the rest of this entry

Narcotic drugs and alcohol are very physically addictive substances accounting for the rise in drug and alcohol addiction rates yearly. Once the body is dependent on the substance for normality, the absence of the substance will cause great pain and discomfort to be inflicted on the individual, known as withdrawal.

Addiction
Drug and alcohol addiction counselling and detox are highly controversial topics and met with many mixed beliefs and schools of thought, especially when physical and non-physical drug addiction is concerned. Unlike previously when addiction was considered a moral failing, professionals have now been opting towards a more successful approach of addiction treatment. Many experts and professionals have come to view addiction as a disease which is progressive and fatal if not treated. The disease can however be arrested through ceasing all addictive behaviour accompanied by counselling and a daily programme of recovery.

Read the rest of this entry

Alcohol addiction or alcoholism can be defined as a compulsive requirement for an intoxicating drink that is derived from a fruit or fermented grain. The drink may be anything from wine, beer, whiskey or rum.

Read the rest of this entry

Alcoholism has spread like an epidemic everywhere around the globe. It is not only the young, but also the older people who are succumbing to alcohol addiction. It is often difficult to detect if a person is an alcoholic because they may have been drinking and yet doing all the work and activities that any “normal” person does. They are called functional alcoholics as they are very unaware of their problem, having always been able to perform all the day-to-day activities.

That is the reason why many people continue to drink and eventually get addicted to it. It is difficult to combat alcoholism and it if you choose to do so, it is a life-long battle which you have to fight. You need to have the will, determination and more importantly, the motivation, to see it through. Some people also get involved in various self-help groups where they meet others who are battling the same problem and can offer support to one another.

Read the rest of this entry