To say that alcoholism is an illness results in some facts about the condition and 'what works' being encompassed but, at the same time, it excludes or places other facts at the periphery of one's attention. The illness concept is, after all, a theory — a way of marshalling and ...
heavy absinthe drinkers were suffering from the negative effects of chronic alcoholism oralcohol poisoning. Even if there was reason to deem absinthe a hallucinogen, alcohol was not to blame. But it's possible that preban absinthe drinkers were reacting to, or even poisoned by, toxic additives ...
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics,“Substance abuse, behavioral disorder, and mental health counselors advise people on a range of issues, such as those relating to alcoholism, addictions, or depression.” A counselor may help you understand how substance use disorder and mental ...
I could go on. We know from a thousand studies that those 50 unemployed people will have higher rates of alcoholism, spousal abuse, mental physical injury and illness. All that costs society is going to have to bear those costs. The doctors, the social workers, you know, the difficulties,...
After reading Fitzgerald's novel, which I admit has its long passages, I can't say I enjoyed this film adaptation. Fitzgerald wanted to show the life of the super-rich in the 1920s. His characters are distant, the reader is not really supposed to sympathize with them. Whereas the movie...
Here is the basic argument for Abolitionist Veganism. I’ve incorporated a couple different major Animal Rights theories into one: 1.Nonhuman animals feel pain, pleasure, fear and other sensations.If they feel these sensations, thenthey have an interest in not being used merely as a resource ...
Topically, Debtors Anonymous has adopted the self-help framework of Alcoholics Anonymous. It treats compulsive debt acquisition as a disease or progressive illness that cannot be cured, just likealcoholism. The organization replaces the label “alcoholic” with “compulsive debtor” in the adapted phi...
Other factors like AIDS,diabetesand alcoholism can increase your risks. Constant exposure to meningitis pathogens –Microbiologistthat are regularly exposed to bacteria that cause meningitis are at high risk of contracting infection. Travel –Visits to meningitis belt in the sub-Saharan Africa, especiall...
(PGC) Working Bipolar Group, encompassing 11 974 BD cases and 51 792 controls, identified a nearby single-nucleotide polymorph- ism (SNP), rs4765913, as the most significant risk SNP in CACNA1C (P = 1.52 × 10 − 8).7 The two SNPs are in moderate linkage disequilibrium (LD) (r2 ...
An employee may also work very hard to disguise their symptoms, or they may develop other 'secondary symptoms' not directly related to the original problem—for example, the strain of coping with depression may cause someone to become dependent on alcohol or drugs. (ACAS, 2012: 5) In view ...