Alcohol Addiction
Alcohol Addiction is a chronic disease characterized by a strong craving for alcohol, a constant or periodic reliance on use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, the inability to limit drinking, physical illness when drinking is stopped, and the need for increasing amounts of alcohol to feel its effects.Binge Drinking: According to a rent study conducted by Kathryn Graham, et al of the University of Western Ontario psychology department "Depression is most strongly related to a pattern of binge drinking,"
Binge Drinking is defined in the study as consuming at least 5 alcoholic beverages at one sitting.
Whether Binge Drinking resulted in the development depression or whether depression contributed to a persons binge drinking was unclear in this study.
Dual Diagnosis Treatment and Rehabilitation Overview » June 28th 2007
Dual diagnosis means that a person has two different
illnesses. Such illnesses include: 1)
severe/major mental illness and a substance disorder(s), 2) substance
disorder(s) and a personality disorder(s), 3) substance disorder(s) and a
personality disorder(s) and substance induced...tags: Dual Diagnosis, Drug Alcohol Rehab Program comments: 1
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