Alcoholism Recovery & Treatment

Question by ason99: My best friend is very addicted to alcohol. This addiction is really beginning to erode our relationship.?
My best friend is very addicted to alcohol. This addiction is really beginning to erode our relationship. torn between being frozen in fear and fearing the future.

How do I get involved this personal issue? I work near Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.

Any resource you can supply to assist would be appreciated.

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Answer by Rolac202
Look into locating alcohol and drug rehabilitation clinics close by your city or town. Check the directory focused on your town and state. Check into free aid on how to help an addicted loved one.

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Question by i like cereal: What’s a really good crisp light alcoholic beverage to have during the summer?
I normally like dark beers and whiskey during the winter, but I’m preferring to want something more light and slightly fruity during summer. I would have really liked to try Zima or maybe an alcoholic Sprite. I might try some New Zealand white wines but I’d rather stay away from the high alcoholic stuff…

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Answer by MattSox
sam adams summer ale.

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Question by rissahearts8876: Are these really the facts?
Got this from http://www.checkyourself.com/FiveMyths.aspx
Can you say if these are true? Actual users, y’know?

Five Myths About Marijuana

1. MYTH: Marijuana is Harmless
TRUTH: Sure, it can’t directly kill you – but that doesn’t mean that pot is risk-free. Regular marijuana use has been shown to be associated with long-term problems, including poor academic performance, memory loss and lung cancer. To a developing brain, like those of teenagers, marijuana can be especially toxic — using pot can lead to panic attacks, depression and other mental health problems, not to mention increased anxiety.

2. MYTH: Marijuana is Not Addictive
TRUTH: But what you didn’t know is that more teens enter treatment each year with marijuana as the main substance that they abused. In 2004, 64% of teens were admitted for treatment for marijuana as their main drug of choice vs. 36% of all other substances including alcohol. Marijuana is addictive, as it meets the criteria for substance dependence established by the American Psychiatric Association including:

Tolerance (needing more of the substance to achieve the same effects)
Withdrawal symptoms, using a drug even in the presence of adverse effects (you smoke even though bad things have happened when you do)
Giving up social, occupational or recreational activities because of substance use (you quit your sports team or job because they get in the way of your drug use.)
The desire for marijuana can have a powerful pull over a user – and can make it hard to quit.

3. MYTH: Marijuana Isn’t As Bad As Cigarettes
TRUTH: Nope, sorry. Pot actually contains many of the same cancer-causing chemicals found in tobacco. Puff for puff, smoking marijuana may increase the risk of cancer more than smoking tobacco does.

Therefore, if you smoke pot regularly, you may experience the same breathing problems as those who smoke cigarettes. To put it plainly, walking up flights of stairs will seem difficult, and if you’re an athlete — that unattractive wheezing and coughing caused by excessive smoking won’t look so hot (or feel so good) on the playing fields.

4. MYTH: Driving While High is Safer than Driving Drunk
TRUTH: Hardly. In a study reported by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, even a moderate dose of marijuana was shown to impair driving performance, since it affects alertness, concentration, perception coordination and reaction time – essential skills required for safe driving. Researchers also found that 17% (1 in 5) of crash victims under the age of 18 tested positive for marijuana.

5. MYTH: I Can Smoke Pot and Still Get Straight A’s
TRUTH: Hey, anything is possible – but there has been a lot of research done that states the opposite. Researchers have found that heavy marijuana use may be especially problematic during teens’ peak learning years, when the brain is still developing, since smoking pot can impair your ability to concentrate and retain information. This can cause poor academic performance. You might think you’re doing well in school – but you’ll never know if smoking pot is inhibiting your true academic potential.

What do you think? I call scare tactics.

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Answer by Exploring the World
Treu

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Question by ladeecapulet: What is day-day life really like at an alcohol treatment center? Info needed as part of my studies. Thank you?

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Answer by Shelty K
Intense therapy!
For a person with alcoholism it may be excruciating. They are trying to recover from addiction and the cravings are still there. So ther is a lot of discomfort for them.
Generally their daily routine is much the same as yours in the sense of food intakes and daily tasks of housework and self image care.
They have to attend meetings and undertake to examine their reasons for taking alcohol in such excess.

The steps of recovery for an alcoholic are available from any local AA center and are spiritual in their approach rather than religious. This spiritual approach is not for all and many leave the program as a result. But amazingly these same people at a later date will return and often embrace the program with greater fervor in order to get their life back in some semblance of order.

Some may receive medication to help lessen the effects of withdrawal, some may undergo other methods. But the aim is always towards avoidance of alcohol in the future.

Looking after alcoholics is much easier than doing the same for those who are addicted to drugs. I have looked after both and so I can say this from experience. Alcoholics have mostlyu experienced some quality of life, employment, marriage, children and some social standing within the community before they vrashed. So there is an age bracket here where some things have been experiened as a normal part of growing up.

With those addicted to drugs, many of them have not achieved much in life and are too young to remember the good things, or times prior to addiction. This group has a greater problem plugging back into a society that they wer once an integral and participatinf part of. Some may be exceptions like pop stars and film stars, but their life has often been a sort of fantasy trip rather than a reality in quality life.

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Question by Judy B: If you comply to take a blood/drug test for a rehab center, will they really tell you who reported you?
I told a friend that I found alcohol bottles and my mom used to / has an alcoholism problem and I suspected a while ago that she did drugs. My friend reported it. Today, she got a call from a rehab center saying that, if she complies to a blood and drug test, they will give her a copy of the report and tell her who “anonymously” reported her to the rehab center. I guess my mom doesn’t have a problem after all because she laughed and decided to take the test (tomorrow) to see who reported her. I’m so scared; she’s going to be so mad at me– unbelievably mad at me– and there’s no way she would understand.

Will they REALLY tell her who reported her and give her a copy of what was said, or are the rehab people just telling her that to persuade her into it?
If you know, how do you know this? I just want to be sure…

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Answer by Black
NO they lie

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