Supervisors: Understanding Alcoholism Supervisors: Understanding Alcoholism

Thinking About Your Drinking

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Drugs of abuse—mood altering and addictive substances—pose a risk for making alcoholism worse.

Alcoholics in recovery can easily relapse—and are considered to have relapsed—if they substitute another psychoactive drug for alcohol to affect their mood.

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• “Alcoholism is characterized by continual or periodic impaired control over drinking”,

• “Preoccupation with alcohol”,

• “Use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and …”

• “Distortions in thinking, most notably denial.”

““Never Again!”

Never Again!”

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It is a falsehood to believe that calling alcoholism a disease eliminates the responsibility alcoholics have for their problems.

Alcoholics are responsible for the consequences of their behavior, and as with any disease, are responsible for seeking treatment when symptoms of the illness become evident. This is the goal of intervention.

Not MyNot My

Fault!Fault!

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