ALCOHOL TREATMENT
Alcohol is Now Responsible For More Than 95,000 Deaths Per Year
Excessive alcohol use is responsible for more than 95,000 deaths in the United States each year, or 261 deaths per day.
Why Do Fewer than One in Ten Alcohol Addicts Get Treatment?
Alcohol addiction. It is a crisis and an epidemic of a nationwide scale, one of the most underreported and insufficiently discussed public health problems in the United States. And sadly, even though treatment options do exist, fewer than 10% of alcohol addicts ever receive such treatment.
KH
Whatever Happened to Providing Abstinence Based Addiction Treatment?
At one time, the expectation of rehab success was abstinence. Now, it's more often the expectation that a person maintains compliance with a medication regimen. Have we given up on the concept of being fully drug-free after rehab?
Alcohol Misuse in Rural Communities—Why Drinking Ends Up Being a “Way of Life” in the Country
According to the Treatment Episode Data Set Report (a research project done by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration), about 50 percent of treatment center admissions in rural America are for alcohol.
How to Treat Alcoholism
Unfortunately, from the viewpoint of treatment, alcoholism has as one of its characteristics that the drinker will almost always deny that he has an alcohol problem.
Treatment for Alcohol Addiction
The options for alcohol addiction treatment vary hugely, from the prescription of drugs that are intended to make a person sick if they drink, to a continuous course of hundreds of meetings at support groups.
NARCONON NEWS
Narconon Extends Hope to Africa with Grand Opening of Continental Center
Narconon Centers
•
Rustenburg, South Africa
Celebrating 56 Years of Saving Lives with the Narconon Program
News
•
International