How can a person get help for an alcohol problem?
There are many national and local resources that can help. The Natw Drug and Alcohol Treatment Referral Routing Service provide a toll telephone number, 1-800-662-HELP, offering various resource informal Through this service you can speak directly to a representative concert**1* substance abuse treatment, request printed material on alcohol or other or obtain local substance abuse treatment referral information in your Study. The bottom line: one in five college students binge drinks fines a(at least three times every two weeks).
According to the NCADD, many students are surprised to learn that they can die from an overdose of alcohol. Often, the worst they expect from a night of binge drinking is a blackout and bad hangover.
Weird Words
Common attitudes toward binge drinking don’t help: “Its’ a rite of passage. “If you pass out from drinking, you just deep it off
Changing these attitudes starts with knowing some facts. Blood alcohol levels skyrocket during binge drinking. When people who weigh 14pounds take a single drink, then blood alcohol level rises .025 percent on average. But for inexperienced drinkers, or those sensitive to alumni box alcohol levels elevate faster and acute intoxication can result more Because of differences in body chemistry, women can overdose after kicking lesser amounts than men.
If you encounter someone with these signs or symptoms, call 911. Then gently turn this person on his or her side. This helps to prevent choking after vomiting.
A second response is to prevent binge drinking. We can support campus policies that discourage drinking, such as providing alcohol-free residence halls and restricting pledging activities by fraternities and sororities. We can also reinforce abstinence from alcohol as the norm. The fact is that most students drink moderately or not at all.
Alcohol Treatment And Adolescents
Alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence are not only adult problems, they also affect a significant number of adolescents and young adults between the ages of 12 and 20, even though drinking under the age of 21 is illegal in every state. Alcohol use for some adolescents can lead to an abusive and addictive pattern that requires intervention. Diagnosis and treatment of alcohol abuse and dependence are more important because alcohol-related problems can have an enormous impact on the adolescent’s future.1
Prevalence Of Adolescent Alcohol Abuse And Dependence Treatment
* In SAMHSAs Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), data indicate that about 80 percent of adult respondents receiving alcohol treatment reported that they first became intoxicated before the age of 18.
* Within TEDS treatment admissions, the proportion of those under 18 has increased slightly from 7 percent in 1992 to 9 percent in 1997.
* In 1996, nearly 182,000 adolescents or young adults under age 20 received treatment for substance abuse in the United States.
• Researchers and treatment professionals have found it useful to view adolescent substance use as occurring on a continuum that extends from experimentation through problem use to disorders of abuse and dependence. Adolescent substance use occurs with the severity of involvement with alcohol or other substances. Not all adolescents who use alcohol are, or will become, dependent.
* The Unique Needs Of Adolescents In Alcohol Treatment
* Summary of Key Points from SAA Treatment Improvement Protocol » Treatment of Adolescents with Substance Abuse Disorders
* • Adolescent alcohol use often stems from different causes than for adults. In treatment, adolescents must be approached differently from adults because of developmental issues, differences in values and belief systems, environmental considerations such as strong peer influences, and educational requirements.
♦ It’s A Fact!!
• According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) s most recent National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA), there were 10.4 million drinkers ages 12 to 20 in 1998. Of these, 5.1 million were binge drinkers, meaning that they drank five or more drinks on at least one occasion in the month before the survey. Two million were heavy drinkers, binge drinking at least five times that month.
* 1 The average age when youth first try alcohol is 11 years for boys and 13 years for girls. According to research by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, adolescents who begin drinking before age 15 are four times more likely to develop alcohol dependence than those who begin drinking at age 21.
Alcohol Treatment And Adolescents
Treatment approaches should also account for age, gender, ethnicity, cultural background, family structure, cognitive and social development, and readiness for change. Younger adolescents have different developmental needs than older adolescents, and treatment approaches should be developed appropriately for different age groups.
* Treatment should involve family members because family history may play a role in the origins of the problem and successful treatment cannot take place in isolation.
* Treatment providers should have specific training in the principles of adolescent development, and treatment programs should avoid mixing adult clients with adolescent clients.
Screening And Assessment
* Clinicians and researchers use various approaches to identify and assess alcohol problems in adolescents. One approach is the use of brief screening instruments most commonly self-report questionnaires to determine the possible presence of alcohol problems. Screening tools
* Generally, an adolescent’s risk for alcohol dependence at some point in life decreases by 14 percent with each additional year that drinking onset is delayed.
* Data from SAMHSA’s National Household Survey on Drug Abuse indicates that while 915,000 youth ages 12 to 20 reported alcohol dependence in the past year, only 16 percent of them (148,000) received treatment.5
* Although national data on the prevalence of alcohol abuse and dependence among teenagers are not available, several large-scale school surveys suggest that 4 to 20 percent of teenagers have either a current or past diagnosis of alcohol abuse or alcohol dependence, based on DSM criteria.
There are many national and local resources that can help. The Natw Drug and Alcohol Treatment Referral Routing Service provide a toll telephone number, 1-800-662-HELP, offering various resource informal Through this service you can speak directly to a representative concert**1* substance abuse treatment, request printed material on alcohol or other or obtain local substance abuse treatment referral information in your Study. The bottom line: one in five college students binge drinks fines a(at least three times every two weeks).
According to the NCADD, many students are surprised to learn that they can die from an overdose of alcohol. Often, the worst they expect from a night of binge drinking is a blackout and bad hangover.
Weird Words
Common attitudes toward binge drinking don’t help: “Its’ a rite of passage. “If you pass out from drinking, you just deep it off
Changing these attitudes starts with knowing some facts. Blood alcohol levels skyrocket during binge drinking. When people who weigh 14pounds take a single drink, then blood alcohol level rises .025 percent on average. But for inexperienced drinkers, or those sensitive to alumni box alcohol levels elevate faster and acute intoxication can result more Because of differences in body chemistry, women can overdose after kicking lesser amounts than men.
If you encounter someone with these signs or symptoms, call 911. Then gently turn this person on his or her side. This helps to prevent choking after vomiting.
A second response is to prevent binge drinking. We can support campus policies that discourage drinking, such as providing alcohol-free residence halls and restricting pledging activities by fraternities and sororities. We can also reinforce abstinence from alcohol as the norm. The fact is that most students drink moderately or not at all.
Alcohol Treatment And Adolescents
Alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence are not only adult problems, they also affect a significant number of adolescents and young adults between the ages of 12 and 20, even though drinking under the age of 21 is illegal in every state. Alcohol use for some adolescents can lead to an abusive and addictive pattern that requires intervention. Diagnosis and treatment of alcohol abuse and dependence are more important because alcohol-related problems can have an enormous impact on the adolescent’s future.1
Prevalence Of Adolescent Alcohol Abuse And Dependence Treatment
* In SAMHSAs Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), data indicate that about 80 percent of adult respondents receiving alcohol treatment reported that they first became intoxicated before the age of 18.
* Within TEDS treatment admissions, the proportion of those under 18 has increased slightly from 7 percent in 1992 to 9 percent in 1997.
* In 1996, nearly 182,000 adolescents or young adults under age 20 received treatment for substance abuse in the United States.
• Researchers and treatment professionals have found it useful to view adolescent substance use as occurring on a continuum that extends from experimentation through problem use to disorders of abuse and dependence. Adolescent substance use occurs with the severity of involvement with alcohol or other substances. Not all adolescents who use alcohol are, or will become, dependent.
* The Unique Needs Of Adolescents In Alcohol Treatment
* Summary of Key Points from SAA Treatment Improvement Protocol » Treatment of Adolescents with Substance Abuse Disorders
* • Adolescent alcohol use often stems from different causes than for adults. In treatment, adolescents must be approached differently from adults because of developmental issues, differences in values and belief systems, environmental considerations such as strong peer influences, and educational requirements.
♦ It’s A Fact!!
• According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) s most recent National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA), there were 10.4 million drinkers ages 12 to 20 in 1998. Of these, 5.1 million were binge drinkers, meaning that they drank five or more drinks on at least one occasion in the month before the survey. Two million were heavy drinkers, binge drinking at least five times that month.
* 1 The average age when youth first try alcohol is 11 years for boys and 13 years for girls. According to research by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, adolescents who begin drinking before age 15 are four times more likely to develop alcohol dependence than those who begin drinking at age 21.
Alcohol Treatment And Adolescents
Treatment approaches should also account for age, gender, ethnicity, cultural background, family structure, cognitive and social development, and readiness for change. Younger adolescents have different developmental needs than older adolescents, and treatment approaches should be developed appropriately for different age groups.
* Treatment should involve family members because family history may play a role in the origins of the problem and successful treatment cannot take place in isolation.
* Treatment providers should have specific training in the principles of adolescent development, and treatment programs should avoid mixing adult clients with adolescent clients.
Screening And Assessment
* Clinicians and researchers use various approaches to identify and assess alcohol problems in adolescents. One approach is the use of brief screening instruments most commonly self-report questionnaires to determine the possible presence of alcohol problems. Screening tools
* Generally, an adolescent’s risk for alcohol dependence at some point in life decreases by 14 percent with each additional year that drinking onset is delayed.
* Data from SAMHSA’s National Household Survey on Drug Abuse indicates that while 915,000 youth ages 12 to 20 reported alcohol dependence in the past year, only 16 percent of them (148,000) received treatment.5
* Although national data on the prevalence of alcohol abuse and dependence among teenagers are not available, several large-scale school surveys suggest that 4 to 20 percent of teenagers have either a current or past diagnosis of alcohol abuse or alcohol dependence, based on DSM criteria.