Behavioral therapies plus pharmacotherapies can add up to success
...ents practice thinking about specific effects that sobriety would have for them (such as spending more time with their children), and by thinking of specific things they could do to minimize the urge to drink (such as calling a sober friend or playing basketball). These methods are individualized for each p...Mayo Clinic discovers one more downside to alcoholism
...g to Dr. Wijdicks. The study also found length of sobriety proportional to the confusion and delirium patients experienced following transplant. Another finding: alcoholic-liver disease patients had more advanced liver disease than their counterparts with hepatitis C. The study investigators indicate that ...Many drunk drivers not problem drinkers
...nders or problem drinkers, countermeasures such as sobriety checkpoints should target the broader group of drinking drivers," said Elisa Braver, PhD, co-author of the study and senior epidemiologist at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety....National enforcement program galvanizes action at the state and local levels to reduce teen drinking
...cement of drinking and driving laws and conducting sobriety checkpoints," Wolfson said. "This is an important move to bring a stronger, more science-based approach to this important federal initiative." ......e that the language facility was learned in tribal sobriety programs and was not a precursor to alcoholism," Koss says. Based on their findings, the researchers highlight the need to develop social programs for reservation-based families to lessen exposure to adult drinking and to establish intensive preventi...