Alcoholism - Rehabilitation
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Perceived need for mental health care among community-dwelling older adults.

7 Oct 2009 Only half of older adults with a mental disorder use mental health services, and little is known about the causes of perceived need for mental health care (MHC). We used logistic regression to examine relationships among depression, anxiety, chronic ... Read more...

Longitudinal association between frequency of substance use and quality of life among adolescents receiving a brief outpatient intervention.

30 Aug 2009 Recognition of the broad consequences of adolescent substance abuse has led to increased emphasis on balancing traditional measures of treatment effectiveness, such as frequency of substance use, with measures of patient functioning and quality of ... Read more...

A new decisional balance measure of motivation to change among at-risk college drinkers.

30 Aug 2009 In this study, an open-ended decisional balance worksheet was used to elicit self-generated pros and cons of current drinking and reducing drinking, which were then quantified to create a decisional balance proportion (DBP) reflecting movement ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Alcoholism - Rehabilitation'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Perceived need for mental health care among community-dwelling older adults. 7 Oct 2009
• Impairment by psychiatric disorders, including alcoholism and drug dependence. 30 Aug 2009
• Longitudinal association between frequency of substance use and quality of life among adolescents receiving a brief outpatient intervention. 30 Aug 2009
• A new decisional balance measure of motivation to change among at-risk college drinkers. 30 Aug 2009
• Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of vigabatrin for the treatment of cocaine dependence in Mexican parolees. Aug 2009
• Dental erosion in alcoholic patients under addiction rehabilitation therapy. 30 Jul 2009
• A safety and tolerability laboratory study of the combination of aripiprazole and topiramate in volunteers who drink alcohol. 30 Jul 2009
• A meta-analytic investigation of the relationship between attentional bias and subjective craving in substance abuse. 29 Jun 2009
• Client-reported reasons for non-engagement in drug and alcohol treatment. 29 Jun 2009
• Predicting the effect of naltrexone and acamprosate in alcohol-dependent patients using genetic indicators. 29 Jun 2009
• VA intensive mental health case management in urban and rural areas: veteran characteristics and service delivery. 29 Jun 2009
• Dropout from outpatient mental health care in the United States. 29 Jun 2009
• Engagement and retention in outpatient alcoholism treatment for women. 29 Jun 2009
• Comparison of family therapy outcome with alcohol-abusing, runaway adolescents. 29 Jun 2009
• Questionable efficacy for naltrexone in patients with Asp40. 29 Jun 2009
• Genome-wide association study of alcohol dependence. 29 Jun 2009
• Outpatient alcoholism treatment--24-month outcome and predictors of outcome. 27 Jun 2009
• Parent training with behavioral couples therapy for fathers' alcohol abuse: effects on substance use, parental relationship, parenting, and CPS involvement. 3 Jun 2009
• Progressive stage transition does mean getting better: a further test of the Transtheoretical Model in recovery from alcohol problems. 30 May 2009
• Adolescents' thoughts about abstinence curb the return of marijuana use during and after treatment. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Alcoholism'

Definition: A primary, chronic disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. The disease is often progressive and fatal. It is characterized by impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking, most notably denial. Each of these symptoms may be continuous or periodic. (Morse & Flavin for the Joint Commission of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and the American Society of Addiction Medicine to Study the Definition and Criteria for the Diagnosis of Alcoholism: in JAMA 1992;268:1012-4)

Descriptor UI: D000437

Alternative terms: Alcoholism; Alcoholic Intoxication, Chronic; Chronic Alcoholic Intoxication; Intoxication, Chronic Alcoholic; Alcohol Abuse; Abuse, Alcohol;

Related Mesh Headings: Alcohol Deterrents; Alcoholics Anonymous; Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; Psychoses, Alcoholic; Temperance;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C21.739.100.250; F03.900.100.350;

Technical Notes: human & animal; do not coord with CHRONIC DISEASE: alcoholism is presumed to be chronic; differentiate from ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION, being drunk, not chronic; acute alcoholic intox & binge drinking is ETHANOL /pois; /drug ther: consider also ALCOHOL DETERRENTS; consider also LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC & its specifics FATTY LIVER, ALCOHOLIC; HEPATITIS, ALCOHOLIC & LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; also PANCREATITIS, ALCOHOLIC; also CARDIOMYOPATHY, ALCOHOLIC; PSYCHOSES, ALCOHOLIC & FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; index other compl of alcoholism under ALCOHOLISM /compl (IM) + disease /etiol not /chem ind (IM); abstinence from alcohol in alcoholism: coord with TEMPERANCE (NIM); available is SKID ROW ALCOHOLICS see HOMELESS PERSONS but see note there