2. • Founder of the Menninger Clinic, Psychiatrist
named Karl Menninger quoted, “Alcohol
addiction can be thought of not as a disease,
but as a suicidal flight from disease, a
disastrous attempt at the self-cure of an
unseen inner conflict”.
3. What is Alcohol?
• Ethanol is a group of chemical or toxic
substances which alcohol was produced when
yeast contributes the fermentation of sugar to
form the ethanol and carbon dioxide in
alcohol.
4. Patterns Affected by Alcohol
• Genetics
• Social Factors
• Work or Job patterns
• Religious Belief
• Drinking to cope
5. How Does the Body Handle Alcohol?
• ALCOHOL
• BLOOD
• BLOOD STREAM (STOMACH)
• SMALL INTESTINE
10. MEDICATION
• Disulfiram(antabuse) and Naltrexone
• 1940s
• Helps in reducing craving and reward in response
to drinking alcohol.
• Acamprosate
• 2004
• neutralize alcohol-disrupted brain activity.
• Topiramate
• Clinical trial
11. Intervention
• PRIME for Life (Sweden)
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy(CBT)
• Behavioral self control training
• Behavioral marital therapy
• Meditation
12. PROGRAM
• ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS (AA)
• Founder of AA, Bill Willson and Dr. Bob Smith
• The 12 steps:
-We admitted we were powerless over alcohol
-Came to believe that a Power greater than
ourselves could restore us to sanity.
-Made a decision to turn our will and our lives
over to the care of God as we understood Him.
13. -Made a searching and fearless moral inventory
of ourselves.
-Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another
human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
-Were entirely ready to have God remove all
these defects of character.
-Humbly asked Him to remove our
shortcomings.
14. - Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and
became willing to make amends to them all.
- Made direct amends to such people wherever
possible, except when to do so would injure
them or others.
- Continued to take personal inventory and
when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
15. - Sought through prayer and meditation to
improve our conscious contact with God as we
understood Him, praying only for knowledge
of His will for us and the power to carry that
out.
- Having had a spiritual awakening as the result
of these steps, we tried to carry this message
to alcoholics and to practice these principles
in all our affairs.
