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....articles:   Alcoholism And Drug Addiction FAQ's - by Timothy J. Falcone, Baldwin Research Institute History and science have shown us that the existence of the disease of alcoholism is pure speculation. Just saying it’s so, doesn’t make it true. Nevertheless, medical professionals and American culture lovingly embraced the disease concept and quickly applied it to every possible deviant behavior from alcohol abuse to compulsive lecturing. Alcoholism is not a Disease - by the Baldwin Research Institute The disease concept was a panacea for many failing medical institutions adding billions to the industry and leading to a prompt evolution of pop-psychology. Research has shown that alcoholism is a choice, not a disease, and stripping alcohol abusers of their choice, by applying the disease concept, is a threat to the health of the individual. Since its inception the AMA has made classifications of varying “deviant” behaviors without scientific research to validate its claims. Alcohol Treatment: When Faith-based Options Aren't Enough - by Anne M. Fletcher With all the talk about federal support of faith-based initiatives within the Bush administration, it is time to take a look at how we treat alcohol problems in the United States. In many states, drunk-driving offenders continue to be mandated to attend twelve-step programs even though, at last count, four appeals courts have ruled that such practices violate constitutional rights because the programs are considered religious activities. A "Reverence for Strong Drink": The Lost Generation and the Elevation of Alcohol in American Culture - by Robin Room Alfred Kazin, Marcus Grant, Gore Vidal, Donald Newlove and others have noted how many American literary greats were heavy drinkers -- and, indeed, often suffered for their drinking. Often this literary curiosity is interpreted as a general characteristic of cultural production, in terms of alcoholism as the "writer's disease" or more generally as an affliction of the especially creative. Binge drinking can impair both mood and cognitive performance [Addiction Technology Transfer Center] According to various reports, binge drinking by young people is increasing in Britain, the United States, and in developing countries throughout the world. Previous research suggests that binge drinking may have implications for the development of alcohol dependence. Research published in the March issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research has found that binge drinking itself has negative behavioral consequences, affecting mood and cognitive performance. Breaking Out of the 12-Step Lockstep - by Maia Szalavitz, Washington Post In the 1980s and '90s, 12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous were the gold standard for addiction treatment. Even among the non-addicted, they had become an accepted part of American culture. In Tim Robbins's 1992 film, "The Player," the title character attended AA meetings not because he drank too much but because that's where the deals were being made. In 1995, New York magazine suggested that single women attend AA to meet men. But today, the recovery movement -- with its emphasis on childhood victimization, lifetime attendance at 12-step groups and complete abstinence from all psychoactive substances -- has fallen from pop culture favor. "There was a time when it was almost the 'in thing' to say you were in recovery," says William White, author of "Slaying the Dragon," a history of addiction treatment. Thankfully, that is no longer the case. College Students Use Alcohol as Way of Coping with Social Anxiety - by Deanne Repich It's no secret that alcohol use is alive and well on college campuses across America. New research studies investigate a largely unexplored area -- the relationship between heavy drinking and social anxiety. According to a recent report by the National Institute of Health (NIH), anxiety is a psychological risk factor associated with heavy or problem drinking among college students. Lifelong sobriety is not recovery from alcoholism  [Onlypunjab.com] Pursuing lifelong sobriety is not a sign of recovery from alcoholism, as Alcoholics Anonymous claims. Staying away from booze one day at a time is treating the symptom instead of the fundamental underlying problem, and merely a damage limitation exercise. So say former alcoholics Lilian and Murdoch MacDonald from Ayrshire in Scotland. They argue that alcoholism is not an incurable and progressive illness or disease, as Alcoholics Anonymous would have us believe, but rather a self-harming behaviour problem with its roots in childhood. Quitting the Bar, Twice : What the law taught me about faith - by Heather King Somewhere around the last years of my drinking I decided to go to law school. ... People sometimes ask me, "How could you have gotten through law school drunk?" My answer is that there is no way I could have gotten through law school if I hadn't been drunk. Heather King, a National Honor Society scholar, is a commentator for All Things Considered, and author of Parched Teenagers and alcohol - Teen drinking linked to health problems in young adults - By Elizabeth Querna [U.S.News & World Report] Alcohol deterrence programs have sprung up in middle schools, high schools, and community centers around the country thanks to a flood of research showing that adolescent drinking causes all sorts of immediate problems, ranging from sleeplessness to reduced cognitive functioning to an increased likelihood of trying other drugs. Researchers at the University of Washington tracked a group of Seattle students, now in their 20s, to see whether adolescent drinking can have longer-term health consequences as well. Verbal creativity, depression and alcoholism. An investigation of one hundred American and British writers - by F Post, The British Journal of Psychiatry An earlier study of 291 world famous men had shown that only visual artists and creative writers were characterised, in comparison with the general population, by a much higher prevalence of pathological personality traits and alcoholism. Depressive disorders, but not any other psychiatric conditions, had afflicted writers almost twice as often as men with other high creative achievements. The present investigation was undertaken to confirm these findings in a larger and more comprehensive series of writers, and to discover causal factors for confirmed high prevalences of affective conditions and alcoholism in writers... Why Self-Recovery? - by Jack Trimpey It is not well-known that self-recovery is commonplace. For ages, seriously addicted people have simply quit the use of alcohol and other drugs and then gotten on with their lives. Today, millions of seriously addicted people simply get fed up with the results of their addictions, make a decision to abstain no matter what, and discover new and better satisfactions. Free from undertow of addiction, these independent people immediately feel better and do better in every respect. Women and Alcohol - by June Russell Due to hormonal changes which affect the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, menopause and sometimes beyond, women have a less predictable response to alcohol both physically and psychologically. Women are more sensitive to the effects of alcohol during ovulation (about 2 weeks before her period), and alcohol is reported to result in reproductive and sexual dysfunctions ... Tolerance for alcohol decreases during PMS and alcohol increases depression. ~ ~ > more articles : Alcohol columns - by Judy Foreman, Health Sense Is Moderate Drinking the Answer? Here's to your health, the benefits of drinking outweigh the risks, but only within limits Alcohol's insidious grip Drink up - or not? studies in women are at odds on alcohol's risks and benefits Self Management "Tool Box" - multiple articles etc [AddictionInfo site] "..an enormous hub of knowledge that can help you change your behavior or help change the behavior of another... tools for acquiring the insights and skills to live a happier and healthier life..." ~ ~ ~ ~

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~ ~ ~ ~ HabitDoc > information & free telephone coaching "No matter what your addiction may be.. I can help you construct a personalized strategy that will lead you to the joys and accomplishments of an addiction-free life."  > Marc F. Kern, Ph.D. ... ~ ~ ~ ~       HBC Protocols HBC's next generation Anti Alcohol Antioxidant Plus is designed to help the body regulate alcohol metabolism while mitigating hangovers before they begin.  Moreover, regular use prior to consuming alcohol can help support the body in its fight against potential long-term alcohol related problems such as cancer, and cirrhosis of the liver, and hangover induced heart attack.   ~ ~ ~ ~ ... Addiction Alternatives "When AA or the 12-steps are not right for you or your loved one" "As someone who has suffered from and dealt with my own addictions, I truly understand how it feels, and how it feels to be told that one-size-fits-all. I hope to be of help." Marc F. Kern, Ph.D., Founder and Director ALCOHOL PROBLEMS questionnaires [HabitDoc site] * Self-Scoring Alcohol Check-up  /  * Am I a problem drinker? A psychoanalytic perspective * The Bar Questionnaire  /  * Should you be concerned about your drinking ? * How much is alcohol & substance abuse costing your company ?  /  * Stages of Change * Decisional Balance   /  * Alcohol Temptations * Processes of Change  /  * I'll Prove I Haven't Got a Drinking Problem Quiz The Harm Reduction Coalition (HRC) Moderation Management Parents Involved in Educating Teenagers About Alcohol Practical Recovery Services (PRS) Promises Malibu, a facility which has helped many artists and others - including Paula Poundstone and Ben Affleck Rational Recovery Recovery With Depth "Recovering People Need Recovering People... with similar interests. This is where that happens. /// This site is not allied with any self-help group but was developed by a grateful recovering alcoholic and chemical dependency counselor for more than 25 years who feels the need for a space to share experiences outside the recovery process." She's In Recovery "The (addicted) woman is attacked not only for her failure at motherhood, but for her abandonment of more general nurturing and caretaking functions that are at the core of the female role. 'Good' women are primarily concerned with the needs and welfare of others... and when women are no longer willing or able to serve.... - even for reasons beyond (their) control -- the response is usually not support or sympathy...." Those words were penned by author Marian Sandmaier, in her book Invisible Alcoholics, in 1980. We HAVEN'T come a long way, baby! Let's Change That! SMART Recovery (Self Management And Recovery Training) Spirituality and Recovery / Speaking of Faith radio program Krista Tippett speaks with author Susan Cheever, who has written widely about her own experiences with alcoholism and recovery. She also talks with Basil Braveheart of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, a Lakota healer who reclaimed traditional Lakota spiritual practices in his recovery from alcoholism. Steps For Recovery -- The Guide To Clean and Sober Lifestyles Teen Line - (310)-855-HOPE or (800)-TLC-TEEN (California only) videos that include substance use disorder topics

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....books:   Eleanor Agnew, Sharon Robideaux My Mama's Waltz : A Book for Daughters of Alcoholic Mothers Stephanie Brown, et al. The Family Recovery Guide: A Map for Healthy Growth Susan Cheever. My Name Is Bill : Bill Wilson--His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous Susan Cheever. Note Found in a Bottle Born into a world ruled and defined by the cocktail hour, in which the solution to any problem could be found in a dry martini or another glass of wine, Susan Cheever led a life both charmed and damned. She and her father, the celebrated writer John Cheever, were deeply affected and troubled by alcohol. Susan Cheever. My Name Is Bill : Bill Wilson -- His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous Patt Denning, et al. Over the Influence : The Harm Reduction Guide for Managing Drugs and Alcohol James Desena, et al. Overcoming Your Alcohol, Drug & Recovery Habits: An Empowering Alternative to AA and 12-Step Treatment Lance M. Dodes, MD  The Heart of Addiction: A New Approach to Understanding and Managing Alcoholism and Other Addictive Behaviors Jerry Dorsman. How to Quit Drinking Without AA Susan Dunn. EQ's Answer to Addiction - The 14th Step - [ebook - PayPal or credit card] A review of the recent findings on addiction reveals the same eternal mysteries -- is the cause genetic or learned? Can addiction be controlled? Is it behavioral or psychological addiction? Who's reponsible for it? When AA works, why does it work? Must addiction really be a "fatal disease"? This is the book for anyone who has struggled with personal addiction or stood helplessly by while a loved one struggled with addiction. Jon Elster  Strong Feelings: Emotion, Addiction, and Human Behavior "Emotion and addiction lie on a continuum between simple visceral drives such as hunger, thirst, and sexual desire at one end and calm, rational decision making at the other. Although emotion and addiction involve visceral motivation, they are also closely linked to cognition and culture. They thus provide the ideal vehicle for Jon Elster''s study of the interrelation between three explanatory approaches to behavior: neurobiology, culture, and choice. The book is organized around parallel analyses of emotion and addiction in order to bring out similarities as well as differences. Elster''s study sheds fresh light on the generation of human behavior, ultimately revealing how cognition, choice, and rationality are undermined by the physical processes that underlie strong emotions and cravings. This book will be of particular interest to those studying the variety of human motivations who are dissatisfied with the prevailing reductionisms." [Amazon.com review] "Useful and consistently sensible and interesting." --Simon Blackburn, Times Literary Supplement About the Author Jon Elster is Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Science at Columbia University." Anne M. Fletcher. Sober for Good Anne M. Fletcher resolved her own drinking problem without Alcoholics Anonymous and was fascinated by other people who had found alternative methods to stop drinking. Marianne Gilliam. How Alcoholics Anonymous Failed Me: My Personal Journey to Sobriety through Self-empowerment "Yes, Gilliam's upset with Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), which she feels let her down during her 10-year struggle against alcohol, drugs, and food. Among AA's many problems, in Gilliam's opinion, is that it creates a "cultlike" dependency in its adherents. That's because AA convinces them that addictions are diseases and, as such, completely beyond their control. But this only compounded Gilliam's difficulties, she concludes, because her central problem was, in fact, a general feeling of powerlessness. Yes, she reined in her addictions while in AA - but out of feelings of fear and guilt. Yet this isn't a rant against AA. Gilliam's point is that focusing on self-empowerment and self-control saved her and may save others. AA is unquestionably the leader in addiction treatment. But with fully seventy percent of AA participants returning to drugs or alcohol, surely there's room for another point of view?" Robert Granfield, William Cloud. Coming Clean : Overcoming Addiction Without Treatment Marc F. Kern, PhD. Take Control Now By practicing unhealthy lifestyle management habits either you or someone you love has gotten into a difficult and unpleasant place in life. This could center around one bad habit or a series of bad habits which include: smoking tobacco or marijuana, poor stress reduction skills, overeating, compulsive shopping, addictive depression, being a workaholic, constant self doubting, free-floating fear and anxiety, drinking too much on a regular basis, not following your doctor's advice, procrastination, misuse of prescription medication, lack of exercise, use of street drugs, poor work habits, hypochondria, poor study habits, consistent laziness, addiction to television, being a couch potato, gambling too much, sexual harassment, the compulsive use of pornography, and on and on. There are two types of unhealthy habits: the "YES" bad habits and the "NOT" bad habits. Both types are motivated by avoidance of uncomfortable feelings. -- excerpt from Chapter One  >> free download of Chapter 1 Marc F. Kern, PhD is Founder and Director of Addiction Alternatives, a specialized program dedicated solely to assisting individuals self-manage destructive habits such as problem drinking, drug abuse and other excessive behaviors. Marc F. Kern, PhD, et al. Responsible Drinking: A Moderation Management Approach for Problem Drinkers Heather King. Parched Somewhere around the last years of my drinking I decided to go to law school. ... People sometimes ask me, "How could you have gotten through law school drunk?" My answer is that there is no way I could have gotten through law school if I hadn't been drunk. Heather King - from her article Quitting the Bar, Twice : What the law taught me about faith She was a National Honor Society scholar, and is a commentator for All Things Considered on NPR Linda Schierse Leonard. Witness to the Fire : Creativity and the Veil of Addiction Colin Tatham (Cape Town, South Africa) - See all my reviewsThis is actually an appreciation - not a literary review. I am an alcoholic in recovery and have an immense gratitude to Linda for writing this book. In her book I found answers, or rather experiences I could relate to, so similar and fitting to many issues burning and un-explained within me. My daimon has been enriched and my recovery program enhanced as a result of reading her great work. Shelly Marshall. Young, Sober & Free: Experience, Strength, and Hope for Young Adults ".. a collective effort from young people in recovery across the nation. They conducted workshops, submitted stories, and recorded what their sponsors told them. This book is exciting in that it covers the basics of recovery and the particular concerns of young people. It calls bullshit on lame excuses and is simply one young person speaking recovery to the next. A particular highlight is the chapter for parents, written by parents. This chapter includes information that parents might not have access to from other sources. This book is a must for anyone under the age of 30 who expects to stay clean and sober." > summary from author site Young, Sober & Free - Resources for Parents, Professionals, & Young People in Recovery Heather Ogilvie. Alternatives to Abstinence: A New Look at Alcoholism and the Choices in Treatment reviewer: J. Marren (Glen Ridge, NJ USA) - This relatively recent compilation of treatment methods for alcoholism is a well-researched summary of alternatives to the popular AA-style abstinence method. The book has an agenda, as will any work on this subject--Ogilvie asks why, in a world where medical treatments are increasingly being tailored to fit the individual, treatment methods for alcoholism other than complete abstinence are so controversial. A very useful resource.   ..more :  addiction resources : books.

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