Blog Entries tagged 'alcohol'

Why Grandma Doesn't Get A DUI

kenandjody@comcast.net — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0100

We have all heard that liars figure and figures lie, but when we started delving deeply into the data about women and alcoholism we found many figures that just didn't...well...figure!

For example, when it comes to DUI's (or DWI's) the number of arrests never matches any data on the incidence of alcoholism among women as compared to men. The trends are certainly there; in 1977 only 8% of DUI's were for women, and by 2007 that percentage had [...]

Favorite Addictions of Codependent Men

kenandjody@comcast.net — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0100

What, me addicted?

Addictive behaviors work. They provide temporary relief for intense physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual agony. We co-dependents have our own favorite addictions.

To most of us, the word addiction brings to mind images of down and out souls whose lives are lost to drugs and alcohol. But that group actually represents only a fraction of the population whose lives are hampered by addiction. If we must do the numbers, it is g [...]

Should I Drink with Her?

kenandjody@comcast.net — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:13:08 +0100

Should I Drink With Her?

Part of the denial system for most alcoholics involves others drinking with them.

As a non-drinker, I have so many stories about heavy drinkers' maneuvers trying to get me to drink with them... like the boss who stood up in a public restaurant with our sales team, pointedhis finger over the top of my head, and announced loudly "this man is a wimp." Everybody who was a little drunk laughed hyst [...]

Alcoholism; the effects on masculinity

kenandjody@comcast.net — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:06:57 +0100

As part of my continuing education as a pharmaceutical salesman covering the hospitals in a major medical center, my company had arranged for a kind of preceptor ship at a teaching hospital in downtown Chicago. I was to "shadow" a third year internal medicine resident for two solid weeks. We had three reps assigned to each resident, and that little group of four worked together day and night. We were in the ER overnight, in the clinics seeing patients all day across the stree [...]

Are you living with a high functioning alcoholic?

kenandjody@comcast.net — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:57:24 +0100

"He/she doesn't look like an alcoholic!"

by Janee S. Parnegg, CAC

Recovery Ministries of the Episcopal Church, Inc.

Toll free 866-306-1542

info@episcopalrecovery.org

www.episcopalrecovery.org

The functional alcoholic is a: husband, wife, doctor, father, priest, lawyer,mother, bishop, butcher, Chief of police,secretary, boss, carpenter, artist, son, engineer, realtor, sister, brother, laundryman,mailman, golf pro,The First Lady, teacher, blue c [...]

Questionaire; do you need Al-Anon or Nar-Anon?

kenandjody@comcast.net — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:24:26 +0100

This questionnaire is courtesy of the Al-Anon World Service Office pamphlet "Al-Anon Faces Alcoholism 2008."

1. Do you worry about how much someone else drinks?

2. Do you have money problems because of someone else's drinking?

3. Do you tell lies to cover up for someone else's drinking?

4. Do you feel that if the drinker cared about you, he or she would stop drinking to please you?

5. Do you blame the drinker's behavior o [...]

Drug Treatment Under Fire

karima@aboutdrugrehab.com — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:09:06 +0100

I've been hearing a lot of opinions recently about these super rich celebrities going into rehab that operates more as a vacation home than a drug and alcohol treatment facility.
I don't know what's going on at theses ultra exclusive rehabs in Malibu where enough money will buy someone a day off to get a tan, a private romp around the house with the chef, or sneak out fora private party with 1,000 closest friends, drugs, and alcohol - then declare success and rehabilit [...]