Choosing the right home can make a big difference by offering the customized support needed for a successful recovery journey. These homes often incorporate specialized support addressing issues like trauma, self-esteem, and relationships. They create an empowering environment where women can connect, share their experiences, and support one another, building a strong sense of community […]

Behavioral treatments—also known as alcohol counseling, or talk therapy, and provided by licensed therapists—are aimed at changing drinking behavior. Symptoms of alcohol use disorder are based on the behaviors and physical outcomes that occur as a result of alcohol addiction. Some people may drink alcohol to the point that it causes problems, but they’re not […]

It also acts as the coordinating body to help individual houses to organize mutually supportive chapters. Through chapters individual houses are able to share their experience, strength and hope with each other to assure compliance with the Oxford House concept and its respected standardized system of operations. The members of an Oxford House assume full […]

However, alcohol can make these feelings and other symptoms worse over time, perpetuating the cycle of alcohol consumption and depression. Use of this website and any information contained herein is governed by the Healthgrades User Agreement. Alcohol disrupts the brain’s communication networks and impacts its ability to process information effectively. Prolonged heavy drinking can harm […]

Though the overall majority of dementia patients were women, 64.9% (almost two-thirds) of all early-onset dementia patients were men. Using the national hospital episode statistics database we identified hospital admissions attributable to alcohol related chronic disease according to the ICD codes (international classification of diseases, ninth and 10th revisions) defined by the Centers for Disease […]