First Person: The Moderate
That’s the real dilemma: Not ‘can I quit for a while?’ because most can.
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Pharmaceutical “Cures”
From a patient’s viewpoint, physicians can be somewhat blase’ about risks associated with a medication.
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Profound Influence
Willing not only to think outside the box, but to stomp the box flat if need be.
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Attorneys, Physicians, and Alcohol
I never saw much difference between a lawyer or a doctor bitching about his job in group, and the same behavior from a CPA or a techie or a long-distance trucker.
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Requisition for an Alcoholism Cure
Please get back to us as soon as you’ve perfected this cure. We can promise you massive profits, guaranteed.
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Why They Quit
By the time the family gets around to taking action, conditions in the addict’s life have already reached the point where there’s a certain incentive to change.
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The Struggle to Maintain
For many, only age and health issues, or an unanticipated dip in that protective tolerance, were enough to finally motivate them to seek help.
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Heavy Users
Some observers have criticized us for orienting treatment methods to more severe cases, but that’s predominantly who we see in many forms of treatment.
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Genetic Marker for Alcoholism
There would presumably be a real advantage to a genetic profile that pinpointed those at special risk for alcoholism
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Addiction Treatment via US Healthcare System: The Downside
The reality is that if we’d had to rely solely on the healthcare system, a lot of people who are in recovery today would simply never have made it.
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Alcoholism Medications– and Alcoholics
An alcoholic can self-regulate consumption for periods given the support from a research project, but when that support ends, a return to previous behavior is likely.
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The War Within
It was never really about the job, or an article in Time, or anything except his own fervent desire to keep drinking and prove everyone else wrong.
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Do I Have a Drinking Problem?
Ultimately, you are the only one that makes decisions about your life.
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