Temperament, character, and dissociation among detoxified male inpatients with alcohol dependency

2008 ◽  
Vol 64 (6) ◽  
pp. 717-727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cuneyt Evren ◽  
Vedat Sar ◽  
Ercan Dalbudak
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Dependency

'Modulated Perfectly': Scotland's Neoliberal Culture of Moderated Alcohol Dependency

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (103) ◽  
pp. 94-112
Author(s):  
Joe Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
National Level ◽  
Class I ◽  
Alcohol Dependency ◽  
Professional Class ◽  
Housing Estates ◽  
Alcohol Dependent

The popular, especially British, imaginary casts Scotland as a drunken nation, just as Thatcherite political discourse presents Scotland as welfare-addicted at an individual and national level, apparently drunk on English money. In this article, I argue that Scottish literary culture has written back through a 'moderated' alcohol dependency, wherein alcohol provides emergency psychotherapy for a neoliberal professional class. I examine four novels featuring alcohol-dependent focalisers which date from the mid-1980s through to peak British alcohol consumption in 2004, namely Alasdair Gray's 1982, Janine (1984), Ron Butlin's The Sound of My Voice (1987), Janice Galloway's The Trick is to Keep Breathing (1989) and A. L. Kennedy's Paradise (2004). All of these texts look past the stereotypical immiseration of unemployed men in urban peripheral housing estates and towards a different constituency of alcohol addicts: qualified, productive, responsibilised, and self-modulating. In so doing, the works renegotiate physical, economic and constitutional dependency in Britain. But in a larger frame, they establish alcohol toxicomania in the context: of the psychopathological economy – in which productivity can only be sustained through the palliation of neoliberalism's mental health crises – and in late capitalism's reordering of social relations, or what Bernard Stiegler calls a 'liquidation of relations of fidelity'.

Probiotics and Alcohol Dependency

2018 ◽  
pp. 96-101
Author(s):  
Derek Larkin ◽  
Colin R Martin
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Dependency

scholarly journals Increased integrated testing for HIV, hepatitis C and sexually transmitted infections in health care facilities: results from the INTEGRATE Joint Action pilots in Lithuania, Romania and Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (S2) ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Matulionytė ◽  
M. L. Jakobsen ◽  
V. I. Grecu ◽  
J. Grigaitiene ◽  
T. Raudonis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Hiv Testing ◽  
Sexually Transmitted Infections ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Alcohol Dependency ◽  
Pilot Studies ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Integrated Testing ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Hcv Testing

Abstract Background Indicator condition guided HIV testing is a proven effective strategy for increasing HIV diagnosis in health care facilities. As part of the INTEGRATE Joint Action, we conducted four pilot studies, aiming to increase integrated testing for HIV/HCV/HBV and sexually transmitted infections, by introducing and expanding existing indicator condition guided HIV testing methods. Methods Pilot interventions included combined HIV/HCV testing in a dermatovenerology clinic and a clinic for addictive disorders in Lithuania; Increasing HIV testing rates in a tuberculosis clinic in Romania by introducing a patient information leaflet and offering testing for HIV/HCV/sexually transmitted infections to chemsex-users in Barcelona. Methods for implementing indicator condition guided HIV testing were adapted to include integrated testing. Testing data were collected retrospectively and prospectively. Staff were trained in all settings, Plan-do-study-act cycles frequently performed and barriers to implementation reported. Results In established indicator conditions, HIV absolute testing rates increased from 10.6 to 71% in the dermatovenerology clinic over an 18 months period. HIV testing rates improved from 67.4% at baseline to 94% in the tuberculosis clinic. HCV testing was added to all individuals in the dermatovenerology clinic, eight patients of 1701 tested positive (0.47%). HBV testing was added to individuals with sexually transmitted infections with a 0.44% positivity rate (2/452 tested positive). The Indicator condition guided HIV testing strategy was expanded to offer HIV/HCV testing to people with alcohol dependency and chemsex-users. 52% of chemsex-users tested positive for ≥ 1 sexually transmitted infection and among people with alcohol dependency 0.3 and 3.7% tested positive for HIV and HCV respectively. Conclusions The four pilot studies successfully increased integrated testing in health care settings, by introducing testing for HBV/HCV and sexually transmitted infections along with HIV testing for established indicator conditions and expanding the strategy to include new indicators; alcohol dependency and chemsex. HCV testing of individuals with alcohol abuse showed high positivity rates and calls for further implementation studies. Methods used for implementing indicator condition guided HIV Testing have proven transferable to implementation of integrated testing.

Empathy, and its relationship with cognitive and emotional functions in alcohol dependency

2016 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Almila Erol ◽  
Asusinem Akyalcin Kirdok ◽  
Nabi Zorlu ◽  
Serap Polat ◽  
Levent Mete
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Dependency

Dissociative Disorders Among Inpatients With Drug or Alcohol Dependency

2005 ◽  
Vol 66 (10) ◽  
pp. 1247-1253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Figen Karadag ◽  
Vedat Sar ◽  
Defne Tamar-Gurol ◽  
Cuneyt Evren ◽  
Mustafa Karagoz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dissociative Disorders ◽  
Alcohol Dependency
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