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Should Texas have sobriety checkpoints? | Texas Legislature | News from Fort …
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But the 20-year-old college student, killed in a fiery head-on collision in Grand Prairie on June 21 with a wrong-way driver whose blood-alcohol level was described as being nearly four times the legal limit, never made it. "My child had her whole life …
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Kerala not to introduce prohibition
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… which is sold through 708 bars and 383 state-owned retail outlets. A recent study conducted by a doctor at a leading hospital in the state pointed out that alcohol-related problems have increased and people in the age group of 37 to 45 years are …
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Joe Wright's misguided and miscast version of the Tolstoy classic uses a host of distancing devices – namely doing the movie as though it took place on a stage – but the effect is to render something cold that should have been warm. It provides a …
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What are the Effects of Alcohol & Drugs on Families?

Lee Taylor, the Family Therapy Coordinator at Castle Craig Hospital, talks about the effects that addiction has on the family: “Castle Craig is not only about working with the patients, it’s about working with the families as well. This is a family illness. She describes addiction as “a very secretive illness”, one which families try to hide from the rest of the world, to appear ‘normal’. Lee talks about denial within whole families, they go to extraordinary lengths to cover up for the alcoholic; friends and employers are also guilty of this. Family members also experience guilt, anger, anxiety, helplessness – they have lied, covered up for the addict, they have pleaded with them and made threats. They often say ‘I just don’t know who I am anymore’. “Many families don’t want to come on the family programme. They’re fearful, they’re anxious and they are under an illusion and a delusion that ‘I’m all right if you just fix them’ — then things will be okay. “One of the props I use in the Family Programme is a huge plastic spider and a web, and that’s an analogy I use: the fact is you have been drawn into the web. You might not know it but you have.” For more information on the Castle Craig family programme visit: www.castlecraig.co.uk

 

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