Cover Story Who Deserves Health Care?
In just the past 12 months, Davis went to the emergency room at LDS Hospital 21 times. He has had “multiple, multiple … like the Newtown school massacre.” Rather than putting armed officers in schools, “we need school nurses, mental-health experts …
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Eight ways to support someone with an addiction
"See your local Alcoholics Anonymous, LDS Family Services or Utah County Substance Abuse office for literature on addictions and referrals to specialists in treating addiction," Larson suggests. … "Willpower is not enough when you are a recovering …
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Orange Support Groups
Addiction recovery, 12-step Christian-based program — 8-9 p.m. Tues., Church of Jesus Christ of LDS, 104 Belmont Drive, Monticello. Call 970-485-0389. Adult Children of Alcoholics — Sat., beginners: 10-11 a.m., step: 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Goshen …
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Who Deserves Health Care?
In just the past 12 months, Davis went to the emergency room at LDS Hospital 21 times. He has …. He sees the prospect of the federal government offering millions of dollars to Utah to expand Medicaid as akin to a dealer pushing addictive drugs …
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Eight ways to support someone with an addiction
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Question by Hello There: Is the recovery from bulimia in a 12 step program drastically different than Alcoholics Anonymous?
I had a friend tell me that in ABA for example- you don’t start counting days again if you purge again, and that the road to recovery isn’t complete abstinence from binging and purging, but reaching a level of manageability in which you ‘get back on the horse’ when you purge after a period of refraining. I was alarmed, but intrigued by her statements and wanted to find out if this was the case- since I’m so AA biased.

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Answer by thebigz
there is over eaters antonymous in a 12 step program but as far as i know there is no program for bulimia you can make your program around the two where you are now and the oa program and see if that works if you like the 12 step program

Good Luck

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Domestic abuse and alcoholism
This meant that he (or she) would tell his story about his descent into alcohol addiction, the harrowing experiences he had, and how he was able to find “a bridge back” to life. This “bridge” refers to the AA program and the support one finds in “the …
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Overcoming addiction
While he wholly endorses traditional 12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous, he believes a combination of approaches is necessary to address those deep-seated issues that don't go away the second someone stops drinking alcohol or using drugs.
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Question by Maryy: What percent of rehabilitated people actually are cured?
ok so this is for a project….
does anyone know what percent of rehabilitated people get out and dont do the same mistake agian??? (i.e.- they would use drugs daily, went to rehab, then when they got out they quit completly)
i searched yahoo, google, and ask jeeves. i did all of my project and this is just a small part of it wich isnt really gonna be graded so keep your useless coments to yourself

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Answer by raysny
Rehabs often claim amazing results, but the reality is less than spectacular.

According to Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_addiction
“The effectiveness of alcoholism treatments varies widely. When considering the effectiveness of treatment options, one must consider the success rate based on those who enter a program, not just those who complete it. Since completion of a program is the qualification for success, success among those who complete a program is generally near 100%. It is also important to consider not just the rate of those reaching treatment goals but the rate of those relapsing. Results should also be compared to the roughly 5% rate at which people will quit on their own. A year after completing a rehab program, about a third of alcoholics are sober, an additional 40 percent are substantially improved but still drink heavily on occasion, and a quarter have completely relapsed.”

That estimate is based on information from Dr. Mark Willenbring of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and in my opinion, optomistic.

” About 80 percent of addiction patients will relapse, studies suggest, and long-term success rates for treatment are estimated at 10-30 percent.
“The therapeutic community claims a 30 percent success rate, but they only count people who complete the program,” noted Joseph A. Califano Jr., of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. “Seventy to eighty percent drop out in three to six months.” ”
http://www.addictioninfo.org/articles/1633/1/Little-Evidence-that-Costly-Treatment-Programs-Work/Page1.html

90-95% of rehabs in the US are 12step-based. The rest are Scientology or religion-based.

The 12step treatment method has been shown to have about a 5% success rate, the same as no treatment at all:

Although the success rate is the same, AA harms more people than no treatment:
1) Dr. Brandsma found that A.A. increased the rate of binge drinking, and
2) Dr. Ditman found that A.A. increased the rate of rearrests for public drunkenness, and
3) Dr. Walsh found that “free A.A.” made later hospitalization more expensive, and
4) Doctors Orford and Edwards found that having a doctor talk to the patient for just one hour was just as effective as a whole year of A.A.-based treatment.
5) Dr. George E. Vaillant, the A.A. Trustee, found that A.A. treatment was completely ineffective, and raised the death rate in alcoholics. No other way of treating alcoholics produced such a high death rate as did Alcoholics Anonymous.
http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-letters85.html

1) http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-effectiveness.html#Brandsma
2) http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-effectiveness.html#Ditman
3) http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-effectiveness.html#Walsh
4) http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-effectiveness.html#Orford
5) http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-effectiveness.html#Vaillant

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New, orderly daytime homeless shelter looks a lot different than last year's
By being involved with running the center, as well as participating in support groups and connecting with local service agencies, shelter users make steps toward more stable lives. The community-based shelter, opened in a year of unprecedented …
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