Category: Sober living

If you don’t have insurance, you may still be able to get free or low-cost help for alcohol misuse. Find a health center near you and ask about alcohol misuse screening and counseling. Under the Affordable Care Act, insurance plans must cover alcohol misuse screening and counseling. Depending on your insurance plan, you may be […]

The Severity of Alcohol Dependence Questionnaire (SAD-Q) is a more specific twenty-item inventory for assessing the presence and severity of alcohol dependence. Such confusion can also contribute to a reluctance among prescribers to treat pain conditions among individuals on opioid agonist treatment. Zhang also said healthcare institutions should look to leverage technology to support adoption […]

Further, it is important to note that due to age-related changes in metabolism, intercurrent ill health, changing life circumstances and interactions with medications, sensible drinking guidelines for younger adults may not be applicable to older people (Reid & Anderson, 1997). Equivalent levels of alcohol consumption will give rise to a higher blood alcohol concentration in […]

Depending on your needs and the level of services you get, you might participate in counseling weekly or many times per week. The most basic level of care for outpatient counseling is Individual Outpatient Counseling Level 1. At Level 2, Day Treatment/Intensive Outpatient Treatment/Partial Hospitalization is available. The grants come from the Center for Community Recovery Innovations, […]

Any resident who drinks alcohol or uses drugs must be immediately expelled. Amenities include on site laundry, air conditioning, parking, full kitchens, living/dining rooms and quick access to public transportation. Each guest can expect a clean bed, sufficient clothing storage, HDTV w/ cable and free wifi in every room inside a clean, well maintained home […]

Learn more about the effects of alcoholism on children, and what happens to children of alcoholic parents. Once these two aspects of self—the inner parent and child—begin to work together, a person can discover a new wholeness within. The adult child in recovery can observe and respond to the conflict, emptiness and loneliness that stem […]

Even when a person grows up to become an adult child of an alcoholic, the meetings don’t necessarily focus on what it was like for a child to grow up alongside addiction and within a dysfunctional family. When you grow up in a home with one or more alcoholic parents, the impact of the dysfunction reverberates throughout […]

There is help and support available for both you and your loved one. You don’t have to be homeless and drinking out of a brown paper bag to be an alcoholic. Many alcoholics are able to hold down jobs, get through school, and provide for their families. But just because you’re a high-functioning alcoholic doesn’t […]

There are empathetic, actionable ways to support someone with an alcohol use disorder (AUD) who may be stuck in denial. When a loved one has a drinking problem, it’s hard to know how to help, especially if they are in denial. It can be difficult to help someone with AUD who is in denial about […]

People with alcohol use disorder will continue to drink even when drinking causes negative consequences, like losing a job or destroying relationships with people they love. They may know that their alcohol use negatively affects their lives, but it’s often not enough to make them stop drinking. Alcoholism has been known by a variety of […]