Alcoholism in family systems

Control and Prevention in 2010, one and five if teen driver involved in fatal automobile accidents have been reported to have registered traces if alcohol in their systems, 81 percent of these drivers had higher than the legal blood alcohol concentration limits. It is illegal for all underage people to drive with any alcohol in their systems and even more serious that there is a significant percentage with high blood alcohol concentration. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety…

‘Substance Abuse and the Family” by Michael D. Reiter stresses on how the family structure regulates around the use of substance and the abuse cause from it. In chapter 14, he stresses about family recovery and the recovery process in which the family must take to restructure the family and their rules where they have an open honest relationship due to communicating. Brown and Lewis presented a four-stage developmental model of recovery for families dealing with alcoholism. The first stage of…

the integration of the substance into the cultural patterns. Native Americans are the most prevalent to become dependent on alcohol among minority groups. Many of the side effects of alcohol abuse include teen suicide, birth defects, break up of families, violence in the home, high incarceration rates and affect the education of the youth. Among Native Americans and Alaska Natives 11.7 percent of deaths were alcohol-related, compared with 3.3 percent for the U.S.A as a whole, out of those…

rejected by their families are six times more likely to be depressed, three times more likely to use illegal drugs and eight times more likely to have attempted suicide than adults who have experienced acceptance by their nuclear family (Friedman, 2014). This social justice issue is further exacerbated at the macro level. Antigay and antitransgender social prejudice stems from the belief that being gay or transgender is somehow wrong, sinful or immoral. The subtleties of these prejudices can…

untreated hypertension; one suicide attempt via self-inflicted gunshot wound; multiple reconstructive surgeries scars to anterior chest, neck, and face. Social history includes: 10 pack-years smoker; remote history of intravenous drug abuse; alcoholism. Family medical history includes: colon cancer and hypertension. Physical examination revealed: obesity; normotensive blood pressure; complaints of increased frequency of heartburn; complaints of chronic diarrhea; abdominal tenderness;…

deaths occur due to alcohol(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013 Alcohol consumption in the United States has continued to remain popular despite all of the negative effects. Alcoholism is defined as A chronic, progressive pathological condition, mainly affecting the nervous and digestive systems, caused by the excessive and habitual consumption of alcohol (The American Heritage Medical Dictionary,N.D.) . “Throughout most of U.S. history 'habitual drunkenness ' was viewed as a…

High- Risk Nutritional Behaviors among Ten Cultures Different people have their own cultural practices to prepare and consume the foods. There are many high- risk nutritional practices among different cultures such as alcoholism, smoking, drug abuse, consumption of high fat and high sugar diet and others (Purnell, 2013). As a health care worker it is very important to understand and observe the high- risk nutritional practices of people from a various cultural background so that necessary health…

Introduction Several forms of treatment have been used in helping alcoholics to recover from the disease of alcoholism. Several of the available options have been found to be effective including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Social Support/Group Therapy, Drug Counseling, and Family Therapy, among other methods. Although each has had positive effects for individuals struggling with alcoholism; the most effective treatment methods are the Social Support/Group therapy model that the program of…

The drinking of alcohol can also lead to a higher blood pressure, which increases the risk of many heart problems such as: stroke, enlarged heart, and heart failure. It is common knowledge that a pregnant woman should never introduce drugs into her system, as they can seriously damage the fetus inside her womb. Still, some pregnant women drink alcohol while they are pregnant. An even worse scenario is when an alcoholic becomes pregnant and cannot quit her addiction while carrying her fetus.…

mother, sisters and she do not want any contact with the family of Juliette’s biological father. The client has one maternal aunt, two maternal uncles, one paternal aunt, and one paternal uncle. Her maternal grandmother is the only surviving grandparent that Juliette has. Juliette’s grandmother has diabetes. Cultural Assessment Romeo is a white-Caucasian 27 years old heterosexual male. The client’s family is a non-native Jewish middle class family from Poland. Also, Romeo does not have physical…