Voluntary abstinence from alcohol: A psychosocial study.

1986 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stan W. Sadava
Keyword(s):  
Abstinence From Alcohol

Teetotalism in Malawian Protestantism: Missionary Origins, African Appropriation

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-182
Author(s):  
Todd Statham
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Church Membership ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Home Culture ◽  
African Christianity ◽  
Marginalised Groups ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
And Control ◽  
Abstinence From Alcohol

Although beer had a profound cultural, economic and religious significance among traditional societies in central Africa, teetotalism – in other words, abstinence from alcohol – has become widespread in Malawian Protestantism (as elsewhere in African Christianity), and in many churches it is regarded as a mark of true faith. This article examines the origins of the antipathy to alcohol in the Presbyterian missionaries who evangelised Malawi in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who drew a parallel between the ‘problem of drink’ among the working poor in their home culture and central Africans, to urge sobriety and its concomitant values of thrift and hard work among their converts. Yet research shows that it was new Christians in Malawi themselves (and not the missionaries) who took the lead in making temperance or teetotalism a criterion for church membership. By drawing upon the experiences of other socially and politically marginalised groups in the British Empire at this time, it is suggested that these new Christians were likely motivated to adopt temperance/teetotalism in order to assert to foreign missionaries their ability to lead and control their own churches and countries.

Altered Anxiety Network Activation During Early Abstinence From Alcohol Use Disorder

2021 ◽  
Vol 89 (9) ◽  
pp. S140
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Flook ◽  
Brandee Feola ◽  
Margaret M. Benningfield ◽  
Marisa Silveri ◽  
Danny G. Winder ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Alcohol Use Disorder ◽  
Network Activation ◽  
Abstinence From Alcohol

Rapid Partial Regeneration of Brain Volume During the First 14 Days of Abstinence from Alcohol

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia van Eijk ◽  
Traute Demirakca ◽  
Ulrich Frischknecht ◽  
Derik Hermann ◽  
Karl Mann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Brain Volume ◽  
Abstinence From Alcohol

P.5.035 Lithium carbonat in maintaining the abstinence from alcohol

1997 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. S262
Author(s):  
V. Filovska ◽  
M. Jakovčevska-Kujundz̆iska ◽  
V. Lazarova
Keyword(s):  
Abstinence From Alcohol

Alcohol-Related Dementia: Rethink How Much You Drink

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (7) ◽  
pp. 324-330
Author(s):  
Raquel Mateus ◽  
Jeannette Y. Wick
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Heavy Drinking ◽  
Excessive Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Care Plans ◽  
Korsakoff Syndrome ◽  
Excessive Alcohol ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Heath Care ◽  
Abstinence From Alcohol

People have consumed alcohol for centuries. Most clinicians who work with people who have dementia acknowledge that alcohol may cause or exacerbate dementia's symptoms. Alcohol-related dementia (ARD) has been recognized since the 1960s, but clinicians rarely use this diagnosis. Regardless, it is common and develops pursuant to long-term excessive alcohol consumption. It may, in some cases, evolve into Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome. Diagnosis can be obscured if patients are not truthful about their alcohol consumption. Often, friends or family provide a better picture of the patient's alcohol history than patients do themselves. Thiamine treatment may prevent or improve symptoms. Abstinence from alcohol is critical, but it is difficult for older people with long histories of heavy drinking. Consultant pharmacists can help the heath care team develop nuanced care plans for patients who have ARD.

scholarly journals A view from the acute hospital: managing patients with alcohol problems

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (9) ◽  
pp. 500-506
Author(s):  
David Pang ◽  
Pete Duffield ◽  
Ed Day
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Brief Intervention ◽  
Delirium Tremens ◽  
Alcohol Problems ◽  
Acute Hospital ◽  
Korsakoff Syndrome ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Long Acting ◽  
Abstinence From Alcohol

Regular heavy consumption of alcohol is associated with a wide range of physical, psychological and social problems. All health-care clinicians should be able to screen for and detect problematic levels of alcohol consumption in their patients, and deliver an effective brief intervention. When patients with alcohol dependence are admitted to hospital there must be an assessment of whether medication is required to prevent withdrawal symptoms and potential delirium tremens and withdrawal seizures. Medically assisted alcohol withdrawal using a long-acting benzodiazepine such as chlordiazepoxide should be carefully monitored and titrated to effect, and the clinician should be aware of the risk of Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome and other complications. Abstinence from alcohol is usually only the first step in treatment, and effective linkage to community alcohol services is an important step.

scholarly journals Executive Functioning Early in Abstinence From Alcohol

2004 ◽  
Vol 28 (9) ◽  
pp. 1338-1346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Zinn ◽  
Roy Stein ◽  
H Scott Swartzwelder
Keyword(s):  
Executive Functioning ◽  
Abstinence From Alcohol
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