Posts Tagged 'alcoholism'

Studying at college can lead to alcoholism?

Although there is apparently no relationship between study at a college and become an alcoholic, a study of a 536 College St. Paul suggests that truth can be another ...

Passing the entrance exam and get into college is only one reason celebrated by alcohol-based university - there are frequent reports of hazing and chopadas watered to much, even too much alcohol.

It is in receipt of freshmen who begin drinking alcohol to become worrisome, "this time, students go through a transition. Leave the school environment, where they were monitored for greater freedom. "Said Roseli Caldas, a psychologist and coordinator of the program MackVida developed by Mackenzie University.

The problem is that alcohol consumption seems not merely the entrance to the college.

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Clinical recovery cure alcoholism?

Alcoholism is becoming a plague in our modern world. Such pressure that our current way of life imposes on the lead frame where stress ends up serving alcohol to escape many people. However, escape from stress rather than face the situations that lead to it can make the person dependent on alcohol and then have alcoholism.

Alcohol dependence is becoming so common that arise all the time clinical therapies and methods to cure alcoholism. The promises are many. But the light of current science gives to cure alcoholism?

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Drug treatment can be done by force, says Justice

A court ruling gives hope to a lot of families who have a drug addict does not want to deal with: the 7th Civil Chamber of the Court of Rio Grande do Sul upheld the appeal of a mother who has been denied in the first instance authorization to admit your child. The decision was taken in by the tyrannical character of Judge Sergio Fernando Chaves de Vasconcellos, on March 24, 2011.

The mother contended that the child needs to undergo treatment on the basis of aggressive behavior, which is destabilized family, and endanger their own integrity. The boy, drug addict, did not accept to undergo treatment.

However, she failed at first instance permission to stay, because it presented, in the judgment of the District of Erechim, expressed for such medical advice. Therefore, she appealed to the TJ-RS, calling for reform of the sentence, to refer the patient for medical evaluation and, if necessary, forcibly hospitalize him.

But the Judge said that when drug addict refuses to submit to psychiatric consultation may be conducted with the help of force:'' It is, therefore, an emergency situation, it is at risk health and life (... ), since it is also an exceptional situation, having in view the gravity of his personal condition, since it is essential to meet the claim of his mother (..), appellant.''

Chemical dependency is a very serious disease and there are several scholars who make statements that at certain stages it totally takes away the ability of a person express their opinions.

The decision of the Judge of the Rio Grande seems to come out in favor of this understanding. Let's wait and hope that other judges in Brazil to have to pass this understanding on the issue of compulsory treatment of drug addicts in order not to further burden the family of addicts.

Finally, for people who are not aware of that drug addiction can destroy the life of a person, let's tell a story of a football player who was Brazilian champion of the Libertadores and vice world champion and has now become street vendor because have had problems with alcoholism and wasted the money I earned:

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Beer from stress can result in alcoholism

Pressure at work: targets to be killed, do more with less, the indirect superior, product to sell shares of ... Increased pressure for better results in the work environment is increasing the amount of stress in workers with companies. And then the good old beer at the end of the day to combat stress looks very attractive! Just behind this temporary relief of stress lurks a dangerous union that can lead to alcoholism, as the person to have their psychological and physiological reactions altered by stress, can end up drinking and often beyond reckoning.

A survey by the University of Chicago, which will be published in the October issue of the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, indicates that the relationship between alcohol and stress is intense and bidirectional: both stress can stimulate the increase of alcohol consumption, as alcohol exposes who consumes the permanent risk of stress disorders.

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Alcoholism treatment: coverage by health insurance - judicial guarantees

A judgment rendered by the Second Civil Chamber of the Court of Rio Grande do Norte (TJRN) provides a possible good news for people who need treatment for alcoholism and do not have enough money to fund a clinic for alcoholism: the plan Health is required to fund the drug treatment due to alcoholism.

In the first instance (3rd Civil Court of Mossley), the Judge did not recognize the right of patients to have their treatment of alcoholism paid by health plan. Fortunately the judges of the Appeal (Court) recognized that this right is up, including even the possible restriction of contractual order.

If the health plan refuses to pay for treatment, he will be fined $ 500.00 for each day of noncompliance with the decision.

Although the health plan is still a distant dream for most Brazilians, for those who are alcoholics and have a health plan is opening a new way to reduce the cost of drug treatment.

If you are seeking treatment for alcoholism and have health insurance, contact an attorney or, if you do not have resources, your State Public Defender, to see the possibility of joining a lawsuit to pay for your treatment plan. The Court's decision sets an important precedent for you to get this right in court.

See the decision requiring the health plan to pay for the treatment of alcoholism .

Alcoholism - how it harms the body

There are several problems caused by alcoholism. Only with regard to breast cancer it increases by 10 time the possibility of having any shape of the population in general, not alcoholic.

We hope that pointing out the problems that alcohol causes the body to bring more people to seek treatment for alcoholism, for yourself or a loved one.

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