Public Housing for Homeless Alcoholics Saves Money

Removing sobriety requirements cut expenditures in half, study found TUESDAY, March 31 (HealthDay News) -- Providing housing to homeless alcoholics, regardless of their sobriety status, reduces health-care use and costs, U.S. researchers report. They evaluated a type of program call...

Epilepsy drug may help alcoholics recover from dependence, small study suggests

ANN ARBOR, Mich. It's a Catch-22 of the highest order. People with alcohol problems often use alcohol to get to sleep -- but it actually keeps them from getting good-quality sleep all night long. At the same time, they're highly likely to suffer from full-blown chronic insomnia that keeps the...

Focus on Children of Alcoholics at Addiction Agency's Annual Meeting

Jerry Moe of Betty Ford Center to Speak CLEVELAND, April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Recovery Resources Inc. ("Recovery Resources"), one of Northeast Ohio's largest nonprofit alcoholism and drug addiction agencies, will hold its 2008 Annual Meeting on Wednesday, April 23 from Noon to 1:...

Baclofen Aids Abstinence in Alcoholics With Cirrhosis

Study finds drug's anti-craving action, safety could play role in liver treatment FRIDAY, Dec. 7 (HealthDay News) -- The drug baclofen promotes alcohol abstinence in alcoholics with cirrhosis of the liver, says an Italian study in this week's issue of The Lancet . The study included 84 alcoh...

Recovery Resources Collaborates with Two Nonprofit Agencies for Children of Alcoholics Outreach Program

CLEVELAND, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Three local nonprofit alcohol and drug treatment agencies have formed a collaborative to focus on the problems faced by the children of alcoholics and other drug addicts. Recovery Resources, Stella Maris and Community Challenge have banded together to produce...

Iron overload: An important co-factor in the development of liver disease in alcoholics

Alcohol and iron are believed to have a synergistic effect in the development of liver injury. Furthermore, alcohol enhances iron absorption. Primary hemochromatosis is a genetic disorder, mostly resulting from mutations in the HFE gene, with a disturbance in the iron metabolism which leads to iro...

Cleveland Addiction Agency and National Association Partner to Help Clergy Counsel the Children of Alcoholics

Recovery Resources and National Association of Children of Alcoholics Offer Free Training Seminar for Clergy on January 30, 2008 CLEVELAND, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Recovery Resources, a nonprofit alcohol and drug treatment agency and the National Association of Children of Alcoholics (N...

Cognitive Problems Occur More Rapidly in Female Alcoholics Than in Males

It is a known fact that alcohol abuse and/or dependence can lead to severe and potentially irreversible brain damage. //It is also known that women, more than men, is severely affected by chronic alcohol abuse within a shorter period of drinking and with less overall consumption. A new study shows ...

Spirituality Increases as Alcoholics Recover

For decades, recovering alcoholics and those who treat them have incorporated spirituality into the recovery process. But few research studies have documented// if and how spirituality changes during recovery, or how those changes might influence a person’s chance of succeeding in the quest for sob...

Partners of Alcoholics May Need to Seek help

People whose spouse or partner spends increasingly more time in a pub are often tormented by the question: Is he or she an alcoholic? // It's a real issue for many people, men and women alike. They live with alcohol as a third party in their relationship and are often completely overburdened b...

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Alcoholics in Medical Technology

Fals-Stewart Earns Hazelden's 2007 Dan Anderson Research Award

...ompared behavioral couples therapy (BCT) for married or cohabitating female alcoholics and their nonsubstance-abusing spouses or intimate partners with individual...es," said Fals-Stewart. "But the majority of research has been done on male alcoholics and nonsubstance-abusing wives or partners. It's pretty common for women to...

Alcoholics in Medical Dictionary

Salivary gland

...other organisms such as insects, salivary glands are... Other Disorders: Salivary gland enlargement also occurs in autoimmune diseases ... alcoholics may have salivary gland swelling, usually on both sides. ... Expert-reviewed information summary about the treatment of salivary gland c...

Relapse

... online site for music: CDs ~ DVDs ~ new ~ old ~ sets. Buy Relapse for $20.48 now & save. There is evidence that approximately 90 percent of alcoholics are likely to experience at least one relapse over the 4-year period following treatment. Watch Relapse music video by 40 Below Summer now at ...

Gland

... such as prostate cancer as well as ways to prevent ... Other Disorders: Salivary gland enlargement also occurs in autoimmune diseases ... alcoholics may have salivary gland swelling, usually on both sides. ... Gland - Definition of Gland at Dictionary.com a free online dictionary with ......

Alcoholic liver disease

...excessive ingestion of alcohol. Describes the liver diseases steatosis, hepatitis, and cirrhosis, as well as treatments. ... unknown why some alcoholics develop liver disease while others do ... Understanding The Implications and Causes of Alcoholic Liver Disease ... A progressive illnes...

Alcoholics in Biological News

Cognitive, genetic clues identified in imaging study of alcohol addiction

...to see what happened inside their heads when sober alcoholics and people in a non-alcoholic control group made d...jects; 19 provided fMRI data, nine were recovering alcoholics in abstinence and 10 had no history of substance a... measured rational thinking and impulsivity; sober alcoholics chose the "now" reward almost three times more oft...

LSD treatment for alcoholism gets new look

...earlier. According to one study conducted in 1962, 65 per cent of the alcoholics in the experiment stopped drinking for at least a year-and-a-half (the dura...e of LSD. The controlled trial also concluded that less than 25 per cent of alcoholics quit drinking for the same period after receiving group therapy, and less t...

Brains can recover from alcoholic damage but patients should stop drinking as soon as possible

...owever, our research also provides evidence that the longer you drink excessively, the more you risk losing this capacity for regeneration. Therefore, alcoholics must not put off the time when they decide to seek help and stop drinking; the sooner they do it, the better." Dr Bartsch, who is senior neurorad...

Alcoholism, smoking and genetics among Plains American Indians

...ns Indians have very different drinking patterns. alcoholics drink heavily, but episodically ?yet they still me...statistical terms, although 62 percent of the male alcoholics and 40 percent of the female alcoholics were smokers, only 12 percent of the alcoholic men...

Mapping alcohol brain damage

...or switched on in the sample. "What we're trying to find out is, what's different in the superior frontal cortex [front of brain] when you compare alcoholics with controls, that's not different in a spared area of the brain," Dr Dodd said. "In that way we can start to find those messages that show alter...

Investigating 'brain shrinkage' in alcoholics

...vious studies have demonstrated that the brains of alcoholics are smaller, lighter and "shrunken" when compared ...n, head injury and sleep apnoea are more common in alcoholics and can contribute to brain damage. All of these f...ng on when an individual is studied. Because human alcoholics cannot be forced to drink or not, researchers have...

Controversial drug shown to act on brain protein to cut alcohol use

...nting relapse, or "falling off the wagon" -- the vulnerability of recovered alcoholics or addicts to return to uncontrolled drinking or drug use when exposed to t...ence was an exciting finding for us because this is the type of behavior in alcoholics for which very few effective drugs exist," Janak said. The scientists confi...