They said “No” This happens. You gather, you offer love, you offer treatment and nothing. However, Family Intervention is about Intervention on the family illness as well, the fear, the pain, the enabling that alleviates these feelings. This is part of an email to a mum who is in day 3 of waiting whilst the […]
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Alcohol Related Brain Damage (ARBD)
Alcohol Related Brain Damage (ARBD) There are numerous references to the insanity of alcoholism. Denial, repression, euphoric recall, minimisation, maximising, knocked off, irrational rationalisations etc etc. For those of us working to help people with alcohol problems get better, we realise more than most that it can take weeks for seemingly “normal thinking” to awaken […]
Nalmefene
Nalmefene Reduces Alcohol Consumption Update: 2015 Nalmefene is rarely used or recommended by RedChair, however, sometimes it appears this is the best course of action. Recently a client who had struggled with abstinence concepts only had one drinking pattern, that was extremely damaging chronic alcohol intake, or nothing when health or rehab intervened. Nalmefene with […]
Understanding The Relationship That Is Addiction.
Earl Grey Tea and Addiction – The Relationship Theory If you have a family member with a drug, alcohol or any other form of addiction that is clearly a problem you will have tried to get them to stop, cut down or control. In the process of this you will have failed and found your […]
