METHODS A total of 119 eligible and randomly selected primary care patients with alcohol abuse or dependence in remission (as defined in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, third edition, revised) participated in a semistructured telephone interview. RESULTS Of the subjects, 59.7% ...
Alcoholabuse, now included in the diagnosis of an alcohol use disorder (AUD), is a disease. While many have described this disorder as dipsomania, the latter term more accurately describes the intense craving that can be a symptom of alcohol use disorder. A maladaptive pattern of drinking alco...
On follow-up 6 years later, 52% of the alcoholic women were in remission. Alcohol abuse was associated with medical problems, with the alcoholic subjects accounting for most deaths, serious medical illness, and psychiatric hospitalization. Criminal recidivism was not significantly related to alcohol...
Excessive alcohol consumption is a major cause for premature death and preventable ill health in the whole population. We set out to audit admissions to the intensive care unit (ICU) of our large teaching hospital with respect to alcohol-related admissions. 关键词: central nervous system depressant...
A structured approach to medical management: a psychosocial intervention to support pharmacotherapy in the treatment of alcohol dependence. OBJECTIVE: Given the national trend toward integrating substance abuse treatment into medical practice, experts in the field of alcoholism designed a psych... HM Pet...
This study, supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, offers an in-depth evaluation of treatment provided by federally funded Alcoholism Treatment Centers. An input-output model is formulated to test treatment effects and their relationship to various etiological conceptions ...
In the alcoholic group, 25 participants met DSM-IV criteria for alcohol dependence and 1 participant met criteria for alcohol abuse. Of those meeting dependence criteria, 24 were in early remission (met criteria within the past 12 months), whereas 1 was in sustained remission (412 months). ...
Co-occurring disorders refers to when a person has both a mental illness and a substance use disorder. This is not uncommon because of several reasons: substance abuse and mental illness have risk factors in common; an underlying mental illness can trigger drinking or drug use as a coping mech...
in remission from AUD. Moreover, remissions were reported to be preceded by increased participation in substance abuse treatment [14]. General trend predictors for a poor prognosis in alcohol-related disorders can according to Öjesjö be arranged in the following order: severity of alcohol ...
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