Alcoholism & Addiction Magazine articles from October 1989

Alcoholism & Addiction Magazine archives from October 1989

The other drug war. (alcohol abuse) (editorial)
October 1, 1989... The Other Drug War Exactly 20 years ago Senator Harold Hughes of Iowa held the hearings that led to the passage of the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act. That legislation marked a...

National drug control strategy.
October 1, 1989... National Drug Control Strategy For some observers, the most disturbing aspect of the National Drug Control Strategy is its focus on cocaine. The Bush Administration's proposals do not mention alcohol at all and only refer in passing to such...

Donated treatment. (residential treatment for alcoholism in the Washington, D.C. area)
October 1, 1989... Donated Treatment The public helath system of Washington, D.C. provides a total of fewer than 350 residential treatment beds for recovering alcoholics and addicts. Every month at least that many uninsured Washington residents apply for...

Challenges for couples in early recovery.
October 1, 1989... Challenges for Couples in Early Recovery "Thank God you warned me," exclaimed Jack as he came through the door. "After two months of everything going well, I thought maybe you were going to be wrong. But you weren't -- this week has been...

Treatment pieces of National Drug Control Strategy win little press, budget attention.
October 1, 1989... Treatment Pieces of National Drug Control Strategy win Little Press, Budget Attention The National Drug Control Strategy released by the Bush Administration in September launched intense press coverage of drug issues. Most reporters and...

More Americans agree: alcoholism is a disease. (public opinion poll)
October 1, 1989... More Americans Agree: Alcoholism is a Disease Though the overwhelming majority of Americans agree generally that alcoholism is a disease, they divide markedly over the precise definition of this term. Recently, a Gallup Poll found 88%...

Clonidine effective in nicotine treatment.
October 1, 1989... Clonidine Effective in Nicotine Treatment A high percentage of recovering alcoholics and other drug addicts smoke cigarettes, and nicotine itself is considered to be an addicting drug. Many alcoholics allege that they "can handle only one...

Medical implications of cocaine intoxication.
October 1, 1989... Medical Implications of Cocaine Intoxication Cocaine overdose is more common than most physicians (and users) think. Contrary to popular misconception, users can overdose by any route of administration, including snorting. Infrequently,...

Heading toward the best of times. (working toward the prevention of addiction)
October 1, 1989... Heading Toward the Best of Times We are in the best of times and the worst of times. This is true of every era. The crises of the time bring unprecedented new opportunities. New opportunities, when acted upon, bring new crises. This is a...

The gift of recovery. (basketball player John Lucas )
October 1, 1989... The Gift of Recovery It's late in the fourth quarter, and the Seattle Supersonics have blown a comfortable lead. Coach Bernie Bickerstaff calls time out, and brings John Lucas off the bench. Lucas enters the game, steals a pass, and is...

How soon is too soon? (recovery from chemical dependancy)
October 1, 1989... How Soon Is Too Soon? Sixty-five percent of all chemically dependent people are doing double-duty. They are both chemically dependent and co-dependent. In addition to their chemical dependency, they have been damaged by being raised in an...

Guidelines for a healthy recovery.
October 1, 1989... Guidelines for a Healthy Recovery How do fitness, nutrition and stress management relate to recovering co-dependents? As the alcoholic's life disintegrates, the co-dependent's reactions to the alcoholic intesify. The co-dependent may try...

Sought through prayer and meditation.... (recovery help)
October 1, 1989... Sought through Prayer and Meditation... Meditation is the practice of steadily focusing upon on thing only. The object focused upon can be almost anything. The flow of air through the nasal passage is perhaps the most common method; the...

Redefining ACA characteristics. (the growth of support groups for adult children of alcoholics)
October 1, 1989... Redefining ACA Characteristics In recent years there has been an explosion of groups forming and expanding for adults who were raised in homes with one or more alcoholic parents. These groups are also frequently attended by those persons...

Discovering self-love in recovery.
October 1, 1989... Discovering Self-Love in Recovery Adult children often have difficulty with the word "love" and the concept of love. That's understandable because they've been raised in family systems where the parents, the most significant people in their...

Aspirin and alcoholics don't mix.
October 1, 1989... Aspirin and Alcoholics Don't Mix A former patient who is a recovering alcoholic phoned me first thing in the morning. "Did you hear the news about an aspirin a day keeping heart attacks away?" She was referring to the widely publicized...

From Russia with love. (taking AA and A1-Anon to the Soviet Union)
October 1, 1989... From Russia With Love When twenty of us turned our lives over to the care of God and the pilot of the Pan Am 747 heading from New York to Moscow, we did not realize how personally, how deeply, each of us would be touched during the next...

Overeaters Anonymous offers help, hope, and recovery.
October 1, 1989... Overeaters Anonymous Offers Help, hope and Recovery "I put my hand in yours and together we can do what we could never do alon." This statment, heard at Overeaters Anonymous (OA) meetings world-wide, is the basic premise of the...

Diagnosing and treating dual disorders. (treating multiple addictions)
October 1, 1989... Diagnosing and Treating Dual Disorders The topic of dual-diagnosis, or as it is sometimes called, "alcoholism or addiction complicated by other mental disorders," is divisible into several areas. First there is the dual-diagnosis which...

Is inpatient treatment necessary? (co-dependents)
October 1, 1989... Is Inpatient Treatment Necessary? Treatment opportunities for alcoholics and their families are continuing to expand across the country, and with the recent explosion of the ACA (Adult Children of Alcoholics) movement, therapists from every...

Adrenalin: co-dependent's drug of choice. (Case Study)
October 1, 1989... Adrenalin: Co-dependent's Drug of Choice In taking a drug history for diagnosis of chemical dependency, we always identify the drug of choice. In order to correctly diagnose and treat co-dependency, we must also identify the "drug of...