What Addicts Need

I'm sorry I thought this was an article on Omama mania. Nevermind.

There is no mention of the collateral damage from alcoholism and other substance abuse. If we truly want to keep our children from abusing alcohol and other drugs there is no more effective and cost-effective way to do so than by reaching out to those who are currently growing up with an alcoholic or otherwise addicted parent (or parents). The logic is almost stunning in its simplicity: these children are two to nine times more likely to abuse alcohol themselves than their peers. Left to fend for themselves these boys and girls are subjected to enormous burdens of responsibility and confusion. Research has indicated that as little as six weekly grop sessions with other children of alcoholics can make an enormous difference in their lives. Back in 1991 Congress declared the week of February in which Valentine's Day falls National Children of Alcoholics Week, sending a message to the 11 million such kids in the country that they are not alone. But 17 years later there are actually FEWER resources available to them. The decline of qulaity comprehensive services for alcoholics and other addicts has led to the elimination of most family support programs and supports for children. The result of this neglect is bleak and clear. Children of alcoholics score lower on standardized tests and have higher rates of truancy, absenteeism and attention deficit disorder than their peers. More than 50% of young people hospitalized for psychiatric disorders in one study were found to have at least one alcoholic parent. The rate in another smaple, of adolescent runaways, was 53%. One other study estimated that parental substance abuse is the root cause behind at least 70% of all child welfare spending. The smallest number of children continue to get the greatest amount in dollars of services with hardly a pittance going to prevention in schools and communities.

The solution is giving these children access to support groups where they can learn that their parent's drinking and other drug problems are not their fault and that they can break the cycle of substance abuse by breaking the rules at home which are always: DON'T TALK, DON'T TRUST, DON'T FEEl. They need to learn about the SEVEN C's instead - I didn't CAUSE it; I can't CONTROL it; I can't CURE it; I can take CARE of myself; I can COMMUNICATE my feelings; I can make healthy CHOICES and I can CELEBRATE being me.

The fallout from this disease is trangenerational. The collateral damage is astronomical and, while we all
live our lives in the meantime we need to recognize and respond to these children in meaningful, loving ways.

Correction: The drug referred to as Camparal in the article is actually Campral (acamprosate calcium).

Correction: The drug referred to as "Camparal" in the article is actually "Campral" (acamprosate calcium).

From the article: "It had been years since the pleasure of drinking outweighed the pain it caused Fuller."
As hard as it may seem to comprehend, Fuller was doing exactly what her puritan culture prescribed for her: a healthy dose of pain. If you drink or do drugs in this culture, you should feel guilty and you must experience pain. The spiritual tag that accompanies the recovery industry's rhetoric: "bio-psycho-social spiritual" is the "spirituality of American Puritanism (now secularized). American puritanism represents hatred of pleasure in any form, viewing any drug euphoria as blasphemy, and suffering addiction as the penalty for the sin of drug use.
Obviously there is no pleasure from consuming 12 beers, two bottles of wine and a pint of Bourbon.
Obviously tolerance has taken place. But tolerance does not need to occur. Drugs can be used and not abused if people first recognize that using psychoactive substances is something that is natural rather than a disease. We are all hard-wired to get "high". In fact, it s a biological inevitability given the EVOLUTION of our human brain: "altering one's consciousness" is a basic human drive. It's a matter of learning how to use and not abuse by JUST Saying KNOW to drugs.
Part of that "knowing" has to do with managing dose, selecting the best method of ingestion, and monitoring the frequency of ingestion. This is the science of drug use. This is the code for intelligent use. This is the pharmacology that facilitates the management of the drug experience so that pleasurable use does not become painful abuse. However, our puritan culture forbids this teaching. If the current abhorrent drug war is to end, we must first bring an end to such puritan censorship.
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EDITED VERSION: Overall, this is a pretty good article although I did note how the one patient who was able to "plan" to get drunk in the morning so she could sober up in time to see her counselor, ironically, smacks in the face of the basic premise of the article, namely, involuntary biology. Most of this has been known for some time as related to other disorders, disabilities, diseases. For example, the correlation between ADHD and substance abuse is no secret, nor, to the informed (i.e., Haarvard Medical School, et cetera) are the positive effects of treatments for ADHD on the ameiloration of substance unknown. What I'd like to see now from this author is a correlative article on the neurobiology of ADHD and how it's related to addiction, particularly how treatments for ADHD affect substance abuse and the role of ADHD and Learning disabilities as possible underlying causes of substance abuse.

Overall, this is a pretty good article although I did not how the one patient who was able to plan to get drunk in the morning so she could sober up in time to see her counselor, ironically, smacks in the face of th basic premise, namely involuntary biology, of the the article. Most of this has been known for some time. For example, the correlation between ADHD and substance abuse is no secret,nor, to the informed (i.e., Harvard Medical School) is the positive effects of treatment for ADHD on the dissipation of substance abuse unknown. What I'd like to see now from this author is a correlative article on the neurobilogy of ADHD and how it's related to addiction. That would be an article, done properly, that would serve your reading community justice. Heinrich P. Tesch von ' Cultz II LIMHP LMHP LPC LMFT NCC NCGC NCCC MAC

Overall, this is a pretty good article although I did note how the one patient who was able to "plan" to get drunk in the morning so she could sober up in time to see her counselor, ironically, smacks in the face of the basic premise of the article, namely, involuntary biology. Most of this has been known for some time. For example, the correlation between ADHD and substance abuse is no secret, nor, to the informed (i.e., Harvard
Medical School, et cetera) are the positive effects of treatment for ADHD on the dissipation of substance abuse unknown. What I'd like to see now from this author is a correlative article on the neurobilogy of ADHD and how it's related to addiction, especially ADHD and as an underlying cause of addiction, not to mention the well-known presence of Learning Disabilities among addicts.. That would be an article, done properly, that would serve your reading community a greater justice and usefulness. Heinrich P. Tesch von Cultz II LIMHP LMHP LPC LMFT NCC NCGC NCCC MAC

Overall, this is a pretty good article although I did not how the one patient who was able to plan to get drunk in the morning so she could sober up in time to see her counselor, ironically, smacks in the face of th basic premise, namely involuntary biology, of the the article. Most of this has been known for some time. For example, the correlation between ADHD and substance abuse is no secret,nor, to the informed (i.e., Harvard Medical School) is the positive effects of treatment for ADHD on the dissipation of substance abuse unknown. What I'd like to see now from this author is a correlative article on the neurobilogy of ADHD and how it's related to addiction. That would be an article, done properly, that would serve your reading community justice. Heinrich P. Tesch von ' Cultz II LIMHP LMHP LPC LMFT NCC NCGC NCCC MAC

Overall, this is a pretty good article although I did not how the one patient who was able to plan to get drunk in the morning so she could sober up in time to see her counselor, ironically, smacks in the face of th basic premise, namely involuntary biology, of the the article. Most of this has been known for some time. For example, the correlation between ADHD and substance abuse is no secret,nor, to the informed (i.e., Harvard Medical School) is the positive effects of treatment for ADHD on the dissipation of substance abuse unknown. What I'd like to see now from this author is a correlative article on the neurobilogy of ADHD and how it's related to addiction. That would be an article, done properly, that would serve your reading community justice. Heinrich P. Tesch von ' Cultz II LIMHP LMHP LPC LMFT NCC NCGC NCCC MAC

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I hate when people who do not work in the medical field or that specific medical specialty write articles, they miss half the story and have no real life experience in the field. It is an illness but it is much more, usually involving psychological and behavioral problems which could or could not have been present before the addiction problem. Depending upon the supposed expert, some lean more towards it being a purely biochemical problem as she's suggesting and others feel it's purely behavioral, probably a combination of the two. Don't ignore the borderline personality characteristics involved, taking care of the manipulation, pathological lying, and rationalizing that are essential to all successful addicts is more important and more essential than any drug for addiction. R.N.CCRC/researcher/med.writer.

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Addiction a disease? Not in the true sense of the word. According to RecoveryNation.com, it is a behavioral pattern ingrained to help one manage a life that they cannot manage in healthier ways. Thus, rebuilding one's value system and learning to use that value system as the primary source for managing one's life and emotions is the surest path away from addiction.

Addiction a disease? Not in the true sense of the word. According to RecoveryNation.com, it is a behavioral pattern ingrained to help one manage a life that they cannot manage in healthier ways. Thus, rebuilding one's value system and learning to use that value system as the primary source for managing one's life and emotions is the surest path away from addiction.