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Articles by this Author
Brief Motivational Interviews Effective For College Student Alcohol Counseling
- By AT TC
- Published 08/1/2007
- Helping a child or adolescent
- Unrated
Students who break university rules on alcohol and drug use in residence halls are often sent to counseling or educational programs. New findings show that the effects of brief motivational interviews on drinking problems are still apparent 15 months after initiation.
Scientists recommend that alcoholics avoid excessive stress – both physical and psychological – during early abstinence.
Alcohol interventions that teach practical skills work best with high-risk university students
- By AT TC
- Published 03/2/2007
- Helping a child or adolescent
- Unrated
Heavy drinking among university students appears to be a universal problem. A new Swedish study indicates that students who engage in high-risk alcohol consumption benefit the most from a skills-training program.
Drinking before, and during, pregnancy
- By AT TC
- Published 02/1/2007
- Alcohol News
- Unrated
In a survey of West Australian women, 79.8 percent reported drinking alcohol in the three months before becoming pregnant, and more than half drank during pregnancy. These data are in agreement with studies from the United States and Britain.
Binge drinking, gender, and clinical depression
- By AT TC
- Published 01/4/2007
- Alcohol News
- Unrated
New findings indicate that depression is primarily related to drinking larger quantities per occasion (binge drinking), and that this effect is stronger for women than for men.
Recovering alcoholics with poor sleep perceptions will likely relapse
- By AT TC
- Published 12/1/2006
- Alcohol News
- Unrated
Alcohol can help people initially fall asleep, but leads to poor-quality sleep later in the night. Escalated consumption of alcohol to aid sleep can lead to alcoholism.
Teen smokers at risk for alcohol-use disorders
- By AT TC
- Published 12/1/2006
- Smoking News
- Unrated
Results indicate that smoking “primes” the brain for subsequent addiction to alcohol and possibly other drugs.
There is hope for recovery from gambling problems, but not all problem gamblers respond to the same types of help or treatment.
Problem Gambling: Screening and Treatment
- By AT TC
- Published 11/17/2006
- Gambling , Dual Diagnosis
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Between 10 and 30 percent of a substance abuse counselor’s clients will have a co-occurring problem gambling disorder. So what can the counselor do to better assess and screen clients for problem gambling?
Gambling: The Hidden Addiction
- By AT TC
- Published 11/15/2006
- Gambling , Addiction Research
- Unrated
Somewhere between 10-30% of those in treatment for drug or alcohol use disorders may have a gambling problem.
