Alcoholism Recovery & Treatment

Question by Ok M: Anyone want to write an article about alcoholism and divorce?
I was wondering if anyone would like to write an article about alcoholism and divorce. Through sharing our experiences with others we can turn the seemingly bad events of our life around to help others. I submitted one to http://www.divorcefire.com . I was reading a story there about a divorce that happend because of abusive behaviors related to drugs and alcohol. I decided to share my story in hopes of helping someone who may read it.

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Answer by rollie_free
I really don’t have the time to write an article.

Give your answer to this question below!

Or a research paper, or of that sort. I need to find one to give an example to my journalism class.

Must be a couple of pages long

is there a site i can search on for one, also?

My daughter is currently in AIT MOS 35MI, she recently got a counseling statement, on the document her sgt wrote “Recommendation for Article 92″. I looked this up online and the punishment seems really bad. She told me she has to go to UCMJ. The act she commited was as follows: Off duty, in uniform on base, drinking with other soilders in training, she got alcohol poisoning and was found face down in the mud by her sgt. who then rushed her to emergency. Can someone please tell me what can possibly happen to her from here? She also told me she will be chaptered out and will have to go to a Alcohol Abuse Program on post, the chaptering out was not officially documented yet. Based on my research online I am losing my mind back home worried sick that she does not end up in military prison. Does anyone have any information on what might happen to her? Please help. Desperate Single Mom

This doesn’t look as long when its in newspaper format. Thanks if you actually read it!
Depression is an ocean of all-consuming emotions, submurging its drowning victim with feelings of hopelessness, sadness, and anger as if the sufferer is trying to swim away while being weighed down by an anchor. The sufferer can only see the ominous murky presence around them, but if they reach out they will find that hundreds of thousands of people young and old are also drowning in depression. Recognizing the symptoms of depression and learning how to help someone cope with it can not only relieve the sufferer’s pain but can also save lives.
Casey* first felt her depression in middle school. After moving to a new town and school she found it hard to fit in while trying to cope with leaving her old friends behind. She joined many social clubs but her peers were not welcoming and accepting of her. She found this hard to deal with.
Casey’s problems worsened as she first entered SRHS. Her grades went from A’s and B’s to D’s and F’s. She always came home crying and would blame her friends and family for not understanding her. Casey would argue with them, many times over small or silly reasons. She felt like a loser, so she turned to alcohol and physical harm to make her feel “normal” and to get rid of the pain and anger.
Casey felt scared and alone, but luckily she wasn’t the only one who noticed something was wrong. James* and Jessica* are two friends of hers who listened when she needed them to. They convinced her to open up to her parents about how she was feeling and what she was doing to herself. Her parents were shocked and upset, but they agreed to help her and decided that counseling would help her the most.
At first Casey was embarrassed about going to counseling. She was doubtful that it would help her, but her counselor taught her to deal with emotions and problems that she didn’t know how to deal with before. Over time her grades raised back up to A’s and B’s, and her relationships with her friends and family became stronger and happier. She learned new ways to deal with depression and how not to let depression control her.
We have all felt depressed at one time or another. High school is hard with peer pressure, homework, sports, clubs, and everything else in between. But like Casey, if depression seems to linger and hurts your personal, social, or school life, you may have depression.
It’s hard to talk about depression, especially if you or someone you know is depressed. But it’s important not to let feelings bottle up inside. Like shaking an unopened can of soda, if you try to open up after you’ve let your feelings bubble over, it’s going to explode and you’re going to have a breakdown. Peer Counseling is a great way to talk about your feelings. It’s a free, one-on-one talk with a student counselor at (school) where you can talk about what’s on your mind.
Even if you’re not ready to talk, there are many ways to deal with depression:
You may not believe it, but a healthy diet, which includes plenty of water, fruits, and vegetables, is one of the most important factors in fighting depression. It stabilizes hormones in your body and keeps your emotions in check, plus countless other health benefits.
Drugs and alcohol trigger depression and can also cause many other health problems and disorders. (school) has an Alateen program on Tuesdays during 5th period in the basement; a place where teens can talk about and deal with alcoholism in their family, friends, or themselves.
Excerise does more than help keep keep you in shape, it releases stress and other negative feelings. Walking your dog, dancing to your iPod, cleaning, swimming, and playing sports on a team or with your friends are great ways to clear your mind and stay fit.
If you notice that a friend is feeling sad or depressed, the best thing you can do is to listen–without giving advice, without criticizing or blaming, and without taking sides–and be there for them if they need someone to talk to or a shoulder to cry on. If you or a friend is feeling suicidal, are using drugs, alcohol or resorting to physical harm, then you or a friend will need more than a friend’s support to deal with those issues. You can call a hotline or talk to a parent, teacher, counselor, or other trusted adult for help. Call 911 if you or a friend is seriously considering or attempting suicide or have had an overdose on any drugs or alcohol.
Depression has affected hundreds of thousands of people across the US and many students at SRHS. One out of eight teens are suffering from depression, so imagine if 250 out of 2000 SRHS students are also suffering from depression. If you can help fight depression, you can save a life.

Improving Patient Care
Race and Preventive Services Delivery
The way to eliminate disparities may be to improve access to family physicians.
Robin S. Gotler, MA, Robert L. Williams, MD, MPH, Susan A. Flocke, PhD, George E. Kikano, MD, CPE, Kurt C. Stange, MD, PhD
Because many racial minority groups have disproportionately high rates of preventable health problems, the issue of disparities in the delivery of preventive services is of particular concern. A number of studies focusing on the population at large suggest there are racial disparities in the delivery of preventive services. However, there has been little direct study of this issue in primary care settings, where most preventive services are provided. This lack of research led us to investigate the following question:
Do racial disparities in preventive service delivery occur among patients seeing family physicians?
Study results
To learn more about the relationship between race and preventive service delivery in family practice, we analyzed data from the Direct Observation of Primary Care (DOPC) Study. By directly observing 4,454 patient visits to 138 family physicians in Northeast Ohio, the DOPC Study sought to better understand the inner-workings of family practice. For this analysis, we examined the delivery of preventive services to both African-American and white patients. These services, recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, included screening services (such as blood pressure checks, mammography and sigmoidoscopy), immunizations (such as DPT, tetanus and flu vaccinations), and health habit counseling (on topics such as diet, sexually transmitted diseases, tobacco, alcohol and drugs).
ILLUMINATING THE ‘BLACK BOX’ OF PRIMARY CARE
This article continues our series on the Direct Observation of Primary Care (DOPC) Study, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health and conducted by the Center for Research in Family Practice and Primary Care, with support from the AAFP. The study demonstrates the complexities of the patient visit, the demands of real-world practice and the value of primary care, issues that policymakers, the public and even clinicians have not fully understood.
The study found that, within family practices, African-American patients and white patients were equally “up-to-date” (i.e., equally likely to receive services within the recommended periods) on both screening and immunization services. However, African-American patients were significantly more likely than white patients to be up-to-date on health habit counseling. These findings stand in stark contrast to studies of the general population, in which African Americans receive fewer recommended services.
Take-away lessons
Access to care within the family practice setting appears to play an important role in reducing disparities in the delivery of preventive services. These results support calls for improving quality of care by increasing the population’s access to primary care. They also suggest that access to family practice and primary care must be a key component of any effort to ensure racial equity in the delivery of preventive services.
Williams RL, Flocke SA, Stange KC. Race and preventive services delivery among black patients and white patients seen in primary care. Med Care. 2001;11(39):1260-1267.
Robin Gotler is project coordinator in the Family Medicine Research Division of Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals of Cleveland. Dr. Williams is an associate professor of family and community medicine at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Dr. Flocke is an assistant professor of family medicine and epidemiology and biostatistics at CWRU. Dr. Kikano is an associate professor and acting chairman of family medicine at CWRU. Dr. Stange is a professor of family medicine, epidemiology and biostatistics, oncology and sociology at CWRU. He is also director of the Center for Research in Family Practice and Primary Care, one of three family practice research centers funded by the AAFP. Conflicts of interest: none reported

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