Narcotic Farm: New PBS Documentary
Lexington, Kentucky’s notorious treatment center.
From 1935 through the 1960s, if you were famous, and you got busted for serious narcotics, there was a good chance of ending up at the U.S. government’s combination addiction hospital and mad scientist’s dream factory. Novelist William Burroughs may have been its most famous graduate, but everyone from jazz [...]
“More Doctors Smoke Camels”
The good old days of tobacco advertising.
The Transform Drug Policy Foundation of the U.K. has an absolutely first-rate collection of early cigarette advertising on display at their TDPF blog.
I’ve always been a sucker for the ones featuring doctors:
The TDPF blog calls this one “particularly awful, featuring a five year old girl proclaiming to her paternal [...]
California Drug Rehab Posted By : David Done
There are literally thousands of drug rehab centers in California. With so many recovery centers in the State with such a diverse variety of staffs and treatment philosophies, how do you choose the one that is right for your or your loved one? First, always check the accreditation of California drug rehab centers. There are [...]
Alcohol Treatment Center Posted By : David Done
Despite its long history, many people do not realize alcoholism is an addiction. In fact, over time, the excessive consumption of alcohol creates a dependency. This problem requires professional help. There are many alcohol treatment centers, such as ours, that have helped many with overcoming alcoholism and alcohol abuse.
Living In The Here And Now… …Remembering When
As awful as an alcoholic’s life can become during the drinking days, there are times when in recovery an alcoholic will remember when things were pretty good - and this can lead to problems. Remembering when times weren’t so bad when drinking can certainly take you down memory lane - like having a few beers [...]
Self-help reduces costs and promotes sobriety
12-Step Involvement Increases Sobriety and Reduces Costs
BACKGROUND: Accumulating evidence indicates that addiction and psychiatric treatment programs that actively promote self-help group involvement can reduce their patients’ health care costs in the first year after treatment, but such initially impressive effects may wane over time. This paper examines whether the positive clinical outcomes and reduced health [...]
Drinkers Intervention in Maxillofacial Surgery
Nurse-delivered brief interventions for hazardous drinkers with alcohol-related facial trauma: a prospective randomised controlled trial.
AIMS: To assess the impact of two methods of brief nurse-delivered brief interventions in reducing drinking variables in hazardous drinkers with alcohol-related facial injuries.
METHODS: A randomised controlled trial of two brief interventions involving hazardous drinkers with facial trauma in three [...]
Implementing alcohol screening and intervention
Implementing alcohol screening and intervention in a family medicine residency clinic.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of simultaneous systems interventions and clinician training on management of hazardous and harmful drinking in a residency clinic.
Systems interventions included forming a multi-disciplinary implementation team, training registration clerks to distribute health risk questionnaires using the [...]
The Classification of Alcoholics
The Classification of Alcoholics
Articles from the journal Alcohol Health and Research
The Classification of Alcoholics: Typology Theories From the 19th Century to the Present
For over 150 years, physicians and researchers have attempted to categorize alcoholics according to various schemes or typologies. Dr. Thomas F. Babor recounts the history of alcoholism typologies through the prescientific period of [...]
Harmful Drinking after Liver Transplantation
“I’ll never touch it again, doctor!” - harmful drinking after liver transplantation.
Alcohol relapse can negatively influence the outcome after liver transplantation (LT).
The aim of our study was to identify factors that could be associated with the recurrence of harmful alcohol consumption after LT.
A total of 387 consecutive patients (23.8% women) who underwent LT for alcoholic [...]