Q&A: Where can I find information about alcoholism treatment programs, doctors, professional people who will help?

Question by dina d: Where can I find information about alcoholism treatment programs, doctors, professional people who will help?
Where can I find information about alcoholism treatment programs, doctors, professional people who will help? We live in LA, CA. My brother is alcoholic- he had family, kid and because of the alcoholism he lost everything what he had. I need to find a doctor (good one)who will help to him to became a normal person (this is a first time when he asked for help). Please recommend me a professional doctor who will help us with this problem.

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Answer by chatterbox4667
I commend you in trying to help your brother – just remember – he is in charge of his own destiny.
Therefore I decided to give you a little information on Al-Anon – for loved ones trying to help; like yourself.

Who are the members of Al-Anon and Ala teen?
Al-Anon and Ala teen members are people just like you and me–people who have been affected by someone else’s drinking. They are parents, children, spouses, partners, brothers, sisters, other family members, friends, employers, employees, and coworkers of alcoholics. No matter what our specific experience has been we share a common bond: we feel our lives have been affected by someone else’s drinking.

http://www.al-anon.alateen.org/meetings/meeting.html

And now for your brother
Information on A.A.
Alcoholics Anonymous® is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees for AA membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. AA is not allied with any sect, denomination, politics, organization or institution; does not wish to engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor opposes any causes. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety.
The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees for AA membership;
Alcoholics Anonymous :
Official site of the Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc.
How to Find AA Meetings – Is AA for you – Information on AA

click on the link and it should get you there –
www.aa.org/

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Where can I find a list of reports, surveys or statistics about alcohol and drug addiction?

Question by adrian: Where can I find a list of reports, surveys or statistics about alcohol and drug addiction?
I’m looking for more sources about alcohol and drug addiction because I’m finishing my homework. I really love the topic and I really want to present a nice report. I’m not doing this just for the grade but I’m also doing this as a way of spreading awareness so that my classmates will not turn out to be alcoholics and drug addicts.

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Answer by andie
What a nice student! I really admire your desire of spreading social awareness. I’ve posted two links below to help you with your report. Try to do a good job, okay? Be a role model to your classmates. Keep it up!

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Q&A: Alcoholism is considered a disease, so what about overeating?

Question by Yomi: Alcoholism is considered a disease, so what about overeating?
There are people who can drink and not be addicted. There are people who can eat the wrong foods once and a while but not all the time. Then there are people who want nothing more than to stop drinking or stop eating the wrong foods, but fail at every attempt even though their very lives are affected in horrendous ways by it, whether they are too drunk to play with their kids or too fat to run around with them. Do you think food addiction is as real as alcoholism? I know I am opening up an opportunity for some mean spirited answers, but I don’t care. I want to know what the general public thinks, and why nothing more is done for it.

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Answer by Dustin M
Yes, Food Addiction is DEFINATELY an addiction. Just like drinking, smoking, self-harm, drugs, or any other number of addictions. They all have something in common: They release endorphins.

Eating releases endorphins when you eat stuff that tastes good.
Drinking releases endorphins because your body “loses” control of it’s chemicals and releases just a bit too much when you’re drunk.
Self-harm releases endorphins because when you hurt yourself (example: cutting), your body makes natural painkillers to help you out in your time of pain.
Drugs release endorphins because, well, they just tell the body to not stop releasin’ them. That’s why cocaine/ecstasy addicts become depressed because those endorphin pathways get so tired they break, and nothing (including your “happy chemical” endorphins) can travel across them.

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Can anyone give me some good sites about alcoholism?

Question by Luekas: Can anyone give me some good sites about alcoholism?
I need statistics that shows how bad alcoholism is. I need it for a speech for a school. Anything with bar graphs or pie charts would be good too.

I keep on Googling it but I keep ending up at the same websites.

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Answer by theangel1025
Try drinkingisgood.com or alcoholicsrule.com

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The Mixed Messages in our Society About Drinking Alcohol

The Mixed Messages in our Society About Drinking Alcohol

An Issue of Mixed Messages

How can something as prevalent, accepted, and accessible in our society as drinking alcohol be so harmful, unhealthy, AND illegal when consumed at or slightly above moderate intake levels? The simple asking of this question immediately uncovers a number of issues, one of which is the mixed messages that exist in our society about drinking alcohol.

The Accessibility and Acceptability of Alcohol

On the one hand, consider the thousands upon thousands of bars and taverns in the United States. Now add to this list the restaurants, night clubs, sporting events, festivals, state fairs, hotels, casinos, carnivals, etc. where alcoholic beverages are regularly served. Moreover, add the grocery stores, liquor stores, beverage stores, the Convenient Food Marts, the 7/11 stores, and the state stores where an adult can legally purchase as many bottles, cans, and/or cases of alcoholic beverages as he or she desires.

Is Drinking Alcohol Cool?

Not only is alcohol extremely accessible in our society but there are also a number of factors that reinforce the idea that drinking alcohol is “cool.” For instance, consider beer advertisements and commercials on TV. Indeed, it can be argued that some of the most memorable, funniest, and “best” commercials and advertisements on TV have been those that were associated with drinking beer. To push the point further, why would beer manufacturers spend millions of dollars for a commercial during the Super Bowl if this expenditure did not lead to more sales? From a slightly different perspective, consider professional athletes and movie stars who, by their actions and advertisements, reinforce the idea that drinking alcohol is “cool.”

Religious Rituals and Cultural Traditions

When religious rituals that make use of alcohol, cultural traditions that encourage drinking alcohol, special events and holidays that are associated with drinking alcohol, and the increasing popularity of adding alcohol to food for enhanced flavor–when all of these are factored into the equation, it becomes obvious that alcohol is deeply ingrained in our society. The point: when people are surrounded with alcohol and bombarded by events, traditions, holidays, and advertisements that are alcohol-related, it becomes part of their socialization process that in turn makes it easier to simply accept that they should drink alcohol if they are to “fit in” and become members of our society.

Alcohol Abuse and Drinking While Driving

If the prevalence, acceptability, and accessibility of alcohol represent the one side of the coin regarding the mixed messages in our society, then the dangerousness, unhealthiness, and illegality represents the other. Indeed, consider the numerous negative and harmful messages and statistics associated with alcohol abuse and drinking while driving that we have heard from the medical community, federal government, police, politicians, organizations such as MADD, and school and college administrators.

Mixed Messages and Their Consequences

When something like alcohol use is so intimately ingrained in the fabric of our society, it becomes extremely difficult to significantly alter its use and abuse in a comprehensive and beneficial manner. I assert that one of the consequences of the mixed messages about alcohol use and abuse in our society it that it becomes extremely difficult for many individuals, especially our youth, to realistically see the destructive, unhealthy, and sometimes fatal aspects of alcohol abuse.

The Influence of the Judicial System

Unfortunately, the judicial system and the ways in which it has dealt with alcohol-related offenses is another example of the mixed messages in our society about alcohol. For instance, until very recently, people who have received multiple DUIs have, in many instances, simply received a “slap on the wrist” for their alcohol-related behavior.

Fortunately, some states are becoming more reality and accountability-based and are making it a felony when a person receives his or her 4th DUI within a ten-year period. In Minnesota, for instance, this sentence includes three years in prison and a fine of not less than ,000.00.

Incarceration AND Treatment

Sending people to jail for alcohol-related offenses, however, is not a viable “solution” unless the person receives help for his or her alcohol problem while incarcerated. True, the offending person is “off the streets” while incarcerated. When the jail or prison sentence is completed, however, a person who has received alcoholism treatment while incarcerated is more likely to become a responsible person who doesn’t continue to drink while driving and less likely to become a repeat offender.

Responsible Behavior

I am not necessarily disagreeing with those who preach “responsible behavior” regarding drinking. The bottom line, however, is one’s definition of “responsible behavior.” Let me explain. Let’s say I have a lake that is used for swimming and that for whatever reason, hundreds of snapping turtles have populated this lake. Some may say that it is “responsible behavior” to warn all swimmers about the turtles and to tell them to “be careful” while swimming. Others with a different point of view, however, might say that “responsible behavior’ in this instance would be to warn the swimmers about the turtles while at the same time significantly reducing the turtle population so that there is less chance that the swimmers will get bit.

What Can Be Done?

If our society is more enlightened and more aware of the health hazards, fatalities, and destructive consequences of alcohol abuse and alcoholism, then why don’t we practice “responsible behavior” and make alcohol less available, less advertised, less glamorized, and less “cool” while at the same time increasing the advertisements, commercials, and public service messages that emphasize healthy and safe alcohol-free activities and lifestyles?

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