The Brad Pitt Experience
It’s a familiar path that countless others have trod before him. For most of them, things didn’t turn out too well. I’m sure he knows that. We all know that, don’t we?
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Still Counting Drinks, Eh?
In practical terms, it’s far more helpful for a working counselor to focus on the problems that result, directly or indirectly, from high-intensity drinking, than on the amounts themselves.
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The Dementia Dilemma
I suppose none of her staff or colleagues thought of seeking professional help. An intervention, for instance. Or perhaps they considered it but decided it was not their place to interfere. Maybe they were scared of her reaction. People around the drinker often are.
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Collegiate “Drunking”
In that environment, alcohol abuse, no matter how excessive, was somehow acceptable. Normalized is the word for it.
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TMS for alcoholism?
For me, it was encouraging to see how far science has come in its understanding of the neurological underpinnings of alcoholism.
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Back to Blackouts
She was continually being surprised when others reported what she’d said and done during her blackouts. The memories themselves never returned.
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Living with a Label
“When you put a name to something, you gain a certain degree of power over it,” a psychologist told me, during a workshop on addictions.
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The Quality of Sobriety
Once the patient gained insight, the theory went, the drive to abuse drugs or alcohol gradually disappears.
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A World of Recovery Podcasting
He came to see it in terms of needing to give up one thing– alcohol– so he could have everything else.
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First Person – Ambivalence
“Now, whether I have one drink or 10,” she admits, “I know I’ll still be where I started, in the nook of my sofa with the TV on at half-volume, anxiously biting hangnails.”
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Another Research Roundup
Wherever addiction is present, unintended overdose is the consequence, not the disease.
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A Controlled(?) Drinking Story
Every time I run into a case like this, the drinker winds up his presentation by asking if he needs professional help. So far, I’ve yet to say no.
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Boozy Holidays
Consensus within the mental health field is that this year’s holiday season can’t help but be more stressful than in the past – due to the pandemic and the restrictions that accompany it.
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