Offering Help and Healing for Alcoholism – Olean Times Herald
Alcoholism: Offering help and healing for alcoholism – Olean Times Herald
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Offering help and healing for alcoholism
Olean Times Herald Robert Lindsey (standing, right), president and CEO of the National Councilon Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and a St. Bonaventure University alumnus, was the guest speaker Thursday at the annual meeting of the Council on Addiction Recovery Services … |
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Alcoholism: Community calendar: Oct. 21, 2011 – Houma Courier
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Community calendar: Oct. 21, 2011
Houma Courier Fireworks, an anger-management class held by the Bayou Council on Alcoholism, is scheduled from 3 to 5 pm Nov. 3, 10 and 17 at the agency's office, 504 St. Louis St., Thibodaux. Limited space is available. The three-week program costs $ 150. … |
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Alcoholism: Organizers look to increase awareness and to remember David Shey – Warwick Advertiser
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Organizers look to increase awareness and to remember David Shey
Warwick Advertiser Central Valley — What organizers foresee as the first annual benefit concert for the Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Council of Orange County takes place this Sunday, Oct. 23, from 3 to 8 pm at Monroe-Woodbury High School. The concert is being held in memory … |
Alcoholism: The Mind-Benders: LSD and the Hallucinogens (Part 3)
1970 www.amazon.com Watch the full film: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com LSD has been used in psychiatry for its perceived therapeutic value, in the treatment of alcoholism, pain and cluster headache relief, for spiritual purposes, and to enhance creativity. However, government organizations like the United States Drug Enforcement Administration maintain that LSD “produces no aphrodisiac effects, does not increase creativity, has no lasting positive effect in treating alcoholics or criminals, does not produce a ‘model psychosis’, and does not generate immediate personality change.” In the 1950s and 1960s LSD was used in psychiatry to enhance psychotherapy. Some psychiatrists believed LSD was especially useful at helping patients to “unblock” repressed subconscious material through other psychotherapeutic methods, and also for treating alcoholism. One study concluded, “The root of the therapeutic value of the LSD experience is its potential for producing self-acceptance and self-surrender,” presumably by forcing the user to face issues and problems in that individual’s psyche. In December 1968, a survey was made of all 74 UK doctors who had used LSD in humans, 73 replied, 1 had moved overseas and was unavailable. Of the 73 replies, the majority of UK doctors with clinical experience with LSD felt that LSD was effective and had acceptable safety: 41 (56%) continued with clinical use of LSD, 11 (15%) had stopped because of retirement or other extraneous reasons, 9 (12%) had …
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