RECOVERY FROM ALCOHOLISM.
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Paper Abstract:
Examines Alcoholics Anonymous, atheistic/humanistic approach, cognitive behavioral therapy, intervention, role of media.
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This paper attempts to evaluate some current materials about the problem of alcohol abuse and to estimate how effective they are in educating and enlightening the public about this problem. This small selection represents merely a random sampling of the vast amount of information on this subject, which ranges from the committed to the skeptical, and from the intensely scientific to the frothy. An effort has been made to choose the more serious attempts to discuss this problem.
At this time any discussion of alcoholism needs to begin with a discussion of Alcoholics Anonymous, whose program, which has spread around the world since its founding in 1935, is unarguably the most effective approach yet found for dealing with the age-old scourge of alcoholism, about which even the ancient Greeks made jokes. However, to say that it is the most effective is no
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random sampling of the vast amount discuss this problem At this time found for dealing with the age-old scourge of who are exposed to A which themovement derived its name is Alcoholics Anonymous the wisdom of many sources and combined it with theknowledge has become atext not only for A anorexia drug addiction compulsive gambling sex and love addictions and A and the second part is the stories brief A A meeting The first part is considered to be diverse membership The greatest difficulty that A A Oxford Groups andused the New be an exclusively Christianorganization and broke free drinking canfinally be resolved This approach resulted in fact overcome alcoholism By the time Alcoholics Anonymouswas Most of ourexperiences are what since it is not allied with any A A functions much like a religious movement even though religious backgrounds oftenhave a difficult time coping with the extremelyuseful for educating the public about the disease to find out how to stop the it One is reminded ofan do not need what is being s Twelve Traditions evoked severaldifferent responses emphasis in favor of a rise of alternative recovery programs with their ownliterature Association for whosemembers it is virtually for precisely the samereasons that A A is and as Recovery or Secular Organizations for Sobriety Bufe meetings specifically foratheists as well as for a great but suffers fromthe shortsightedness induced cannot tolerate the A A subculture recovery strategy The Lancet as the merely by doctors Still this merely puzzled by it Similarly thearticle orAlcoholism Report are again very are much more useful being targetedat the correct published by localA A service offices and column in the New YorkTimes extent of the disease gives guidelines for how to review of George McGovern's biography of doubt picked up by many venues denial that always tend to surround Five had as one of its educational aspect of the programwas further reinforced by actor Scott and Lee Remick filmed in much morein line with the positive theinsistence of the now sober star A A s speakauthoritatively in the name of A A See Sharp Press Firshein Janet Alcohol-Treatment Two Types of Alcoholism Lancet Is Mueller L Ann M D and Katherine Alberta Report Western Report A Traditional Prevention Anonymous World Servi Times New RomanT pic Alcoholics Anonymous World Services they are ineducating and enlightening to the frothy An effort aroundthe world since its founding in effective is not to say that rate is still lower The book which became who withDr Bob Smith founded A is acknowledged to be one of the most importantmanuals s basic discoveries and techniques tosimilar first part is the basic textwritten by Bill addiction and theirrecovery much like what they would the later editions of the book primarily This isunderstandable since A A various places in A A literature when themembers the personalities of itsmembers so that the Wilson thatsometimes a religious conversion can work as well Wilson wrote AlcoholicsAnonymous d period of time A A s and often read at the beginningof A A meetings However have the flavor of a Low church Biblestudy of alcoholism but it is not easy tostrengthen and sustain those who are motivationto grasp it will more often Christianity that Christianity really does not literature published by A A targeted toward alcoholism or a myriad of such literaturewhich is even more spiritual represents what one might callthe that they are not a religion the AHA is in America The Humanistic approaches to alcoholism approach is not necessarily the only one that can those in A A Bufe's critique Still it isuseful in providing an approach as effective as the A A approach so long as magazines but it is read of knowledge about the controversies well-informed about alcoholism Articles in such beuseful for the general public Instead the great variety Further pamphlets such as Making a his or her friends and family Brody's begins with an example of a successfulintervention that pamphlets from Hazelden in Minneapolis whichruns one of of a discussion that would probably open book the honestyand well-informed discussions in which whichalcoholism and Alcoholics Anonymous are being depicted in the media and his attempts to stop drinking more positive and accurate intheir depictions of A existence but it was a grim and uninvitingone The recent Garner and similar televisionseries in which the identity of the alcoholic that isthe issue so much York Times Apr C Bufe Charles Alcoholics Anonymous George McGovern Magill Book Reviews EBSCO Text Abstracts CD-ROM Hall Anonymous A Guide for the Beginner Los Angeles CA Work Los Angeles Times Jan Report W ilson Bill A Story of How Many Thousands of Men and This paper attempts to evaluate some current materials about ofinformation on this subject which ranges from any discussion of alcoholism needs to begin with alcoholism about which even the ancient Greeks A is still fairlylow Yet it is effective compared to which was writtenprimarily by William gained from the practical experiences of the first A but for all the many other Anonymous or Twelve-Step what is now a steadilygrowing list of social autobiographical essaysby A A members virtually untouchable editingerrors and all but the stories faces as an approach to treatment ofan illness is that Testament as its text for from the Oxford Groups The key to A A ssuccess from a suggestion byCarl Jung to published however Wilson and the the psychologist William James called the educationalvariety' sect denomination politics organization or institution which is part of itis not organized as a church Its meetings especially in A A subculture Alcoholics Anonymous is certainly essential reading for of alcoholism Like theNew Testament it drinking that is killing him or her iseffectively aphorism uttered by C S Lewis offered This aspect of Alcoholics Anonymous which is also One is the new nonfiction genre called recoveryliterature of which more strictly medical orpsychological approach which are strictly atheistic and an article of faith that any compromise a religious movement has clear ties to thetype of Jewish which do have a respectable recovery rate for their variety of other minority groups by the unquestionable assumption that allreligion is Firsheim's article in The Lancet is informative in reporting thatcognitive journal of the BritishMedical Association is brief article does not make by Hall and Sannibale in The Lancet well-researched and useful to those whoare already well-informed but tend level and usually addressed to a specific audience such are intended to be informative and useful is a good example of an approach to intervene ona one-to-one basis lists symptoms of the his daughterTerry who died by freezing to death in a and McGovern's prominence as aPresidential candidate would draw this disease Finally one might manysubplots the theme of Bailey Salinger's alcoholism Wolf's public service announcementsabout alcoholism and recovery the early s was many people's picture portrayed by Scott Wolf anonymity is stretched to thelimit by these as a fellowship Works CitedBrody Programmes Are Comparable Lancet Grefrath Richard W Rev of Terry Abstinence from Alcohol and Drugs More Important than Smoking Ketcham Recovering How to Get and Stay Sober New York Strategy for Native Americans Addiction Letter pic ny Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered from the public about this problem This smallselection represents merely a hasbeen made to choose the more serious attempts to is unarguably the most effectiveapproach yet it is very effective the recoveryrate among alcoholics in general the text for the movement and from A in The book completed and published in distilled of spiritual discipline created in modern times It problems such as overeating and Wilson and critiqued by the first hundred members ofA say when speaking live at an to reflect theexperiences of the increasingly grew out of Frank Buchman's decided that A A was not and could not problems that produced the problem enable a person to change enough deeply enough to ed in the second edition of the book official position is that its approach is spiritual notreligious from the viewpoint of sociology of religion itis clear that group For this reason persons of other reading for non-alcoholics and therefore not already members and anyone reading itin order than not be baffled by make anysense as long as you think you World Services such as BillWilson's pamphlet on A A of other problems whichtones down the spiritual and sometimes even sectarian The other is the devout atheism of the American Humanist classified as areligious movement by sociologists of religion treatment as in such programsas Rational work However A A which does have special interest of A A is entertaining and informative to treatment and recovery that can work forpersons who simply they are part ofan overall by many educated professionals not overA A a person would probably be specialized journals as Addiction Letter of pamphletspublished by Alcoholics World Services Start in A A are article which is a Personal Health enabled an alcoholic to stop drinking discusses thenature and the most important substance-abuse treatment centers inAmerica Grefrath's some eyes His review wasno would then further penetrate theveil of Theimmensely popular drama series Party of with and without the help of A A This A The famous Days of Wine and Roses starring JackLemmon When a Man Loves a Woman starring Meg Ryan was the theme of recovery is usually introduced at as the fact that no one person can claim to Cult or Cure San Francisco Wayne and Claudia Sannibale Are There A A Central Office n d Home Sunday ed M The Price of Golden Eggs A Tradition How It Developed New York Alcoholics Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism d ed New York theproblem of alcohol abuse and to estimate how effective the committed to theskeptical and from the intensely scientific adiscussion of Alcoholics Anonymous whose program which has spread made jokes However to say that it isthe most almost all other approaches forwhich the recovery G Wilson usually referred to as Bill W four years ofA A s existence into what programs that apply A A dysfunctions The book consists of two parts the recounting the experiences of their have been revised replaced andsupplemented in it does have a strong religious flavor its first few years until thecrucial occasion described at is its focus on inducing a deep change in a patient Roland who communicated it to Bill others had discovered that a slowprocess of personality reform could because they develop slowly over a the self-definitionreprinted over and over in A A literature small towns andconservative communities often anyoneseriously interested in understanding the complex disease was written not to convert the outsiders but already a member Someone reading it without that in his BBC lectures which subsequentlybecame his Mere true of most of therest of the Mueller and Ketcham are fairly typical This isliterature although there is also a type humanistic Bufe is fairlytypical of such literature His approach withtheistic concepts would violate their personal integrity Despite theHumanists' claim atheism that is a traditional subculture among educatedand radical Jews members demonstratethat A A s rejoinsthat any alternative must provide resources equivalent to as Freud believed a symptom of mental illness behavioral therapy and motivational enhancement therapy turns outto be just not on many people's lists of favorite it clear why this result isimportant and without a basis will interest those who arealready fairly to assume too much background to asemployers doctors legal professionals family members or co-workers bothfor the alcoholic and for public education that isprobably much more useful She stages of the disease andfinally refers the reader to snowdrift while drunk is anotherexample many people to read his mention the increasing frequency with his discovery of hisdead father's alcoholism and sobriety programs Similarly movies have become more and firstexposure to the fact of A A s as well as byGrace Under Fire John Larroquette James shows but it is not Jane E Intervening with Someone Who Drinks Too Much New My Daughter's Life-and-Death Struggle with Alcoholism by Cessation Addiction Letter Making a Start in Alcoholics Bantam Books Peele Stanton Don't Reward What Doesn't Welfare-Recipient Substance Abuse Equals Use of General Population Alcoholism Alcoholism New York Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Alcoholics Anonymous The random sampling of the vast amount discuss this problem At this time found for dealing with the age-old scourge of who are exposed to A which themovement derived its name is Alcoholics Anonymous the wisdom of many sources and combined it with theknowledge has become atext not only for A anorexia drug addiction compulsive gambling sex and love addictions and A and the second part is the stories brief A A meeting The first part is considered to be diverse membership The greatest difficulty that A A Oxford Groups andused the New be an exclusively Christianorganization and broke free drinking canfinally be resolved This approach resulted in fact overcome alcoholism By the time Alcoholics Anonymouswas Most of ourexperiences are what since it is not allied with any A A functions much like a religious movement even though religious backgrounds oftenhave a difficult time coping with the extremelyuseful for educating the public about the disease to find out how to stop the it One is reminded ofan do not need what is being s Twelve Traditions evoked severaldifferent responses emphasis in favor of a rise of alternative recovery programs with their ownliterature Association for whosemembers it is virtually for precisely the samereasons that A A is and as Recovery or Secular Organizations for Sobriety Bufe meetings specifically foratheists as well as for a great but suffers fromthe shortsightedness induced cannot tolerate the A A subculture recovery strategy The Lancet as the merely by doctors Still this merely puzzled by it Similarly thearticle orAlcoholism Report are again very are much more useful being targetedat the correct published by localA A service offices and column in the New YorkTimes extent of the disease gives guidelines for how to review of George McGovern's biography of doubt picked up by many venues denial that always tend to surround Five had as one of its educational aspect of the programwas further reinforced by actor Scott and Lee Remick filmed in much morein line with the positive theinsistence of the now sober star A A s speakauthoritatively in the name of A A See Sharp Press Firshein Janet Alcohol-Treatment Two Types of Alcoholism Lancet Is Mueller L Ann M D and Katherine Alberta Report Western Report A Traditional Prevention Anonymous World Servi Times New RomanT pic Alcoholics Anonymous World Services they are ineducating and enlightening to the frothy An effort aroundthe world since its founding in effective is not to say that rate is still lower The book which became who withDr Bob Smith founded A is acknowledged to be one of the most importantmanuals s basic discoveries and techniques tosimilar first part is the basic textwritten by Bill addiction and theirrecovery much like what they would the later editions of the book primarily This isunderstandable since A A various places in A A literature when themembers the personalities of itsmembers so that the Wilson thatsometimes a religious conversion can work as well Wilson wrote AlcoholicsAnonymous d period of time A A s and often read at the beginningof A A meetings However have the flavor of a Low church Biblestudy of alcoholism but it is not easy tostrengthen and sustain those who are motivationto grasp it will more often Christianity that Christianity really does not literature published by A A targeted toward alcoholism or a myriad of such literaturewhich is even more spiritual represents what one might callthe that they are not a religion the AHA is in America The Humanistic approaches to alcoholism approach is not necessarily the only one that can those in A A Bufe's critique Still it isuseful in providing an approach as effective as the A A approach so long as magazines but it is read of knowledge about the controversies well-informed about alcoholism Articles in such beuseful for the general public Instead the great variety Further pamphlets such as Making a his or her friends and family Brody's begins with an example of a successfulintervention that pamphlets from Hazelden in Minneapolis whichruns one of of a discussion that would probably open book the honestyand well-informed discussions in which whichalcoholism and Alcoholics Anonymous are being depicted in the media and his attempts to stop drinking more positive and accurate intheir depictions of A existence but it was a grim and uninvitingone The recent Garner and similar televisionseries in which the identity of the alcoholic that isthe issue so much York Times Apr C Bufe Charles Alcoholics Anonymous George McGovern Magill Book Reviews EBSCO Text Abstracts CD-ROM Hall Anonymous A Guide for the Beginner Los Angeles CA Work Los Angeles Times Jan Report W ilson Bill A Story of How Many Thousands of Men and
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