Work was becoming too hectic for a young police officer named Gary. Although he had only been on the police force for two years, he was already known as a hard worker who rarely refused working overtime. In actual fact, he was now working twenty to twenty-five hours of overtime each week and, as a [...]
Diane drank quite heavily every weekend with her drinking friends. One Tuesday after all of her classes were finished, she started reflecting on the amount of alcohol she had on a regular basis and the drinking of her drinking friends. As a consequence of this, she asked all of her drinking buddies the following question: [...]
Barry used to brag to his drinking friends how he could stay employed at a challenging and fulltime job and get intoxicated virtually every night. Unfortunately, after maintaining this destructive lifestyle for just about four-and-a-half years, he began to manifest numerous alcohol related problems.
Barry Starts to Display a Variety of Alcohol Related Problems
For instance, he [...]
Wendy was the mother of five children. Wendy had been feeling quite anxious lately and started to “medicate” herself by having two or three shots of burbon every night after she tucked her children into bed. After just about six months of this drinking routine, she finally realized that instead of helping her ”chill out” [...]
Samuel was a thirty-two-year-old financial analyst who was tired of feeling depressed everyday of his life and tired of his unhealthy drinking behavior. Stated simply, he was tired of going through broken relationship after broken relationship due to his abusive drinking, he missed his old motivation for doing various things he enjoyed, he was annoyed [...]
About seven months ago I had lunch with a thirty-seven-year-old male named Alexander who experiences extreme depression, has relationship difficulties, and who is addicted to drugs and alcohol. As mentioned by Alexander, it is his alcohol and drug dependency and his acute depression that had the most to do with his perpetual relationship problems.
I remember [...]
For a number of years alcohol dependency research has demonstrated the fact that there is strong correlation between alcoholism and life-threatening health conditions.
As an illustration, in 2005, medical exploration and alcohol abuse and alcoholism statistics demonstrated the fact that that alcohol abuse and alcohol addiction cost the United States an estimated $220 billion on an [...]
Jeffrey was a high school ninth grader who typically seemed to be living on the edge. Jeffrey had a daring personality and generally wanted to do what his older brothers were doing. The central holdup with this was that all three of his brothers were at least 21 years old and were consequently able from [...]
