How Does Alcohol Affect Your Mental Health?

People who have problems with alcohol are also more likely to self-harm and commit suicide. Sarah Allen Benton, M.S., LMHC., LPC, is a licensed mental health counselor and author of Understanding the High-Functioning Alcoholic. The core principle of positive...

Alcoholism Audiobooks in Addiction & Recovery

Alcohol Explained is the definitive, ground-breaking guide to alcohol and alcoholism. It explains how alcohol affects human beings on a chemical, physiological, and psychological level, from those first drinks right up to chronic alcoholism…. Commonly referred...

What Is The Abstinence Violation Effect AVE?

Detailed discussions of relapse in relation to NDST and catastrophe theory are available elsewhere 10,31,34. Relapse poses a fundamental barrier to the treatment of addictive behaviors by representing the modal outcome of behavior change efforts 1-3. For instance,...

Your Guide to the Stages of Alcohol Recovery

Because he is a member of a support group that stresses the importance of anonymity at the public level, he does not use his photograph or his real name on this website. You stop attending all meetings with counselors and your support groups and discontinue any...
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