Alcoholism and Drug Addiction

Unit 15 Drug Addiction and Alcoholism

15.0 Objectives 15.

Alcoholism – the Worst Addiction

Introduction: The most common substance of abuse/dependence in patients presenting for treatment in western countries is alcohol. Ethyl alcohol or ethanol which is also called medicinal alcohol is used as an official drug compendium. It is also administered as an antidote in methanol poisoning. However, regular consumption of high amounts of alcoholic drinks induces dependence and addiction lea...

THE DISEASE CONCEPT Of Alcoholism and Other Drug Addiction

Today the idea that alcoholism is a disease is only partially accepted. Polls that ask people about the nature of alcoholism provide revealing results. In 1979, one study reported that 85 percent of general practitioners viewed alcoholism as a disease — the same percentage that regarded coronary artery disease, hypertension, and epilepsy as diseases.' When a 1988 Gallup Poll asked members of th...

Adolescent Alcoholism and Drug Addiction: The Experience of Parents.

Alcoholism and drug addiction have marked impacts on the ability of families to function. Much of the literature has been focused on adult members of a family who present with substance dependency. There is limited research into the effects of adolescent substance dependence on parenting and family functioning; little attention has been paid to the parents' experience. This qualitative study lo...

The management of depression in alcoholism and drug addiction.