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Monthly Archives: May 2008
Molecular Fingerprint Of Cocaine Addiction Revealed
Molecular Fingerprint Of Cocaine Addiction Revealed
…”The changes we identified are profound and affect the structure, metabolism and signaling of neurons,” said lead author Nilesh Tannu, M.D. “It is unlikely that these types of changes are easily reversible after drug use is discontinued, which may explain why relapse occurs.”…
World No Alcohol Day
Oct 2 to be ‘World No Alcohol Day’?-India-The Times of India
NEW DELHI: Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary could soon be a dry day globally. India has officially proposed at the ongoing World Health Assembly in Geneva that October 2 be declared ‘World No Alcohol Day’. …
‘Sober Companions’ Help Rich Addicts Stay Clean
‘Sober Companions’ Help Rich Addicts Stay Clean « Alcohol Self-Help News
Everyday people in recovery often turn to support groups or an Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) sponsor when they face a possible relapse, but some celebrities and other wealthy addicts are turning to paid “sober companions” to help maintain their sobriety…
I suppose it’s hard to go hang out at the local clubhouse when you’re a Fortune 500 name, but it would probably do them a world of good.
Meteorology Lesson
Oh I could spin you tales of troughs aloft
How masses move between the poles and doldrums
Regale you with the intricacies of
The Polar High, La Niña and El NiñoAnd you’d be fascinated by the way
The air flows along isobars and boundaries
And how the cold fronts form when air slides under
The humid masses moving from the tropicsOr we could step outside and close our eyes
And be the wind
©Copyright William E. Webb, 2008
Alcohol and HIV/AIDS
People with alcohol use disorders are more likely than the general population to contract HIV (human immunodeficiency virus). …
Or, to put it another way, drinking too much makes you stupid and careless.
Marked Increase in alcohol use, abuse, dependence among women in US
Alcoholism Is Not Just A ‘Man’s Disease’ Anymore
ScienceDaily — A new examination of data on similarly aged groups, compared across decades, has found substantial increases in drinking and alcohol dependence among women. Increases were particularly notable among white and Hispanic women — beginning with those born in the United States after World War II.
Keeping it in “the I”
I’m an alcoholic, addict and codependent. My name is Bill.
When I came into the 12-step rooms, I was told several basic things: sit back, shut up and listen; don’t drink or drug between meetings, find a sponsor, work the steps, help others, and many more simple ways to find a sure footing on the path to recovery. I was not encouraged to share. My first sponsor told me that I didn’t really have anything worth hearing, and that unless I thought I was going to drink or drug that day to just sit back and listen on the unlikely chance that I might actually allow myself to learn something.
His logic was the following: Continue reading
Complacency
Fight Complacency in AA and Avoid Relapse — Spiritual River
When I was in early sobriety, I imagined that there must be a certain point that people reach in recovery where they are now going to “make it.” A certain length of clean time where people are protected against the threat of relapse.Turns out this simply isn’t true. In fact, the statistics for long term sobriety are quite frightening–-the drop off rate of relapsing addicts and alcoholics doesn’t really slow down much as your length of sobriety increases.
So what causes a person to relapse after experiencing a genuine sobriety? The answer is complacency.
Codependency
Codependency — or, as it used to be called, co-addiction or co-alcoholism — is one of the more difficult concepts to grasp in the area of addiction and recovery. The reason for that is simple, really, because codependency is just normal behavior taken to extremes. Codependency
World Health Organization To Tackle Alcohol Problem
The Health Assembly endorsed a six-year action plan to tackle what are now the leading threats to human health: noncommunicable diseases. These diseases – particularly cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancers and chronic respiratory diseases – caused 60% of all deaths globally in 2005 (estimated at 35 million deaths). Low- and middle-income countries are the worst affected by these diseases which are largely preventable by modifying four common risk factors: tobacco use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and harmful use of alcohol.
Delegates also requested WHO – through a resolution – to intensify its work to curb harmful use of alcohol, which is the fifth leading risk factor for death and disability in the world. They called upon WHO to develop a global strategy for this purpose. The work on the strategy will start immediately and Member States will be consulted throughout the drafting process. The resolution also requests the Director- General to consult with intergovernmental organizations, health professionals, nongovernmental organizations and economic operators on ways they could contribute to reducing harmful use of alcohol. World Health Assembly sets bold new action for WHO
Alice Springs: “large-scale alcohol genocide”
A TERRITORY doctor has accused Alice Springs of “large-scale alcohol genocide” and called for solutions to “rampant alcoholism” at an international convention of surgeons.
The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons said Alice Springs had the highest reported incidence of stab injuries in the world and violence accounted for more than half the annual trauma case load at Alice Springs Hospital.
Bar could be held responsible
WAUPUN, Wis. – A local tavern could possibly lose its liquor license or [the owner could] even face criminal charges after a man celebrating his 21st birthday there later died of alcohol poisoning.
Man dies of alcohol poisoning; bar could be held responsible — – chicagotribune.com
I know…you don’t want to hear about it…
According to research on cell phone addiction, addiction danger signs included running up huge bills and having irrational reactions to being without a phone if you forgot or lost your mobile.
Coping with Cell Phone Addiction – Psych Central
The Plague That No One Acknowledges
If some new and terrible disease were suddenly to strike us here in Canada — a disease of unknown cause, possibly due to noxious gas or poison in our soil, air or water — it would be treated as a national emergency, with our whole citizenry uniting to fight it.
Let us suppose the disease to have so harmful an effect on the nervous system that five million people in our country would go insane for periods lasting from a few hours to weeks or months and recurring repetetively over periods of from 15 to 30 years.
Let us further suppose that during these spells of insanity, acts of so destructive a nature would be committed that the material and spiritual lives of whole families would be in jeopardy with a resultant 25 million persons cruelly affected. Work in business, industry, professions and factories would be crippled, sabotaged or left undone. And each year more than one and 1/4 billion dollars would need to be spent merely to patch up in some small way the effects of the disease on families whose breadwinners have been stricken.
Finally, let us imagine this poison or disease to have the peculiar property of so altering a person’s judgment, so brainwashing him, that he would be unable to see that he had become ill at all; actually so perverting and so distorting his view of life that he would wish with all his might to go on being ill.
The dread disease envisioned above is actually here. It is alcoholism.
Reprinted from The Roundabout in the AA Grapevine.
