Addiction & Recovery articles from November 1991

Addiction & Recovery archives from November 1991

Addiction treatment outraces inflation in federal appropriations. (Editorial)
November 1, 1991... At the beginning of November, representatives of the Senate and House Appropriations Committees awarded alcohol and drug services a 5.2% increase in the 1992 fiscal year budget for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The...

The somatopsychic syndrome: a blueprint for behavior. (Addiction: Maybe It's in the Genes) (Cover Story)
November 1, 1991... Over a century ago, the insights from psychiatry and psychoanalysis opened the way to a new understanding of the role of emotions in a variety of physical ailments. Psychosomatic theory called attention to the repressed anxiety behind a...

Genes, messengers, and addictive behavior. (Addiction: Maybe It's in the Genes) (Cover Story)
November 1, 1991... That genetic factors may be involved in drug dependence came from early animal studies of predisposition to alcohol preference. Jorge Mardones, Gerald McClearn, and T.-K. Li clearly demonstrated that strains of laboratory animals could be...

Genetics of high-risk populations. (Addiction: Maybe It's in the Genes) (Cover Story)
November 1, 1991... Today one of the most challenging problems we face in modern societies is alcohol and drug abuse. The number of casualties due to alcohol and drug overdose increases continually. Thousands of families have been destroyed due to addiction of...

The genetics of addictive behaviors: the role of childhood behavioral disorders. (Addiction: Maybe It's in the Genes) (Cover Story)
November 1, 1991... Why do some people become addicts while others do not? Why can some teenagers take a drink of alcohol and not crave more while others know from the instant of their first drink that alcohol is going to cause them problems for the rest of their...

Keeping familial alcoholism in perspective. (Addiction: Maybe It's in the Genes) (Cover Story)
November 1, 1991... We have been witnessing an explosion of interest in the problems of adult children of alcoholics (ACOAs), from best-selling books to TV talks shows and specialized conferences. What began as a term useful in describing the impact of alcoholism...

Late recovery: a process of integration.
November 1, 1991... In the developmental process of recovery, there comes a time when every individual must make a conscious decision to continue the process of growth and change by addressing psychological core issues. These are the aspects of self that were...

Managing the unmanageable: an insurer's critique of chemical dependency programs.
November 1, 1991... Most Chemical Dependency (CD) programs implemented in and for work sites across the country have played to mixed reviews and discomfiting controversy. At the same time, destigmatization of chemical dependency has played a major role in...

Teaching wellness and wholeness: the Cokenders Alcohol and Drug Program story.
November 1, 1991... One day in the early 1980s, psychologist Richard Louis Miller received a call from a physician. He said that he had a house guest who was "freaking out." A few hours later the "freaked out" house guest andher husband were in Dr. Miller's...