Question by Taylor: Alcohol problem…medical forms?
I’m 30 and after alcohol causing problems in dental school and with my husband, my mother crying over the phone pleading with me to stop as well as potentially contributing to my chronic hypertension, I decided to try to stop drinking. I have been a daily drinker for 5 years, and over the past 2 years, there has been a fairly drastic increase. I have been drinking 5-8 drinks per night on average for the past year.

Because of bad reactions with the meds I’m taking (for insomnia and high BP), with alcohol it was recommended that I stop the alcohol. The cravings were terrible over the next month and I was NOT fun to live with… irritable, unable to sleep and generally angry… not attractive… Many times I couldn’t think of anything else but drinking. I went back to drinking once after 33 days for 2 days and then my MD prescribed me Naltrexone. It is helping a little. I still crave, but it is very blunted and manageable.

In a few months, I will have to fill out a form for a residency program in dentistry. One of the questions asks if I have ever been treated for substance abuse or chemical dependence. I have never been to rehab or counseling, but I have medication for alcohol dependence.

Does this count as “treatment?” If so, would you disclose it to a place that is about to employ you for a year? Thank you.

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Answer by Tsunami
you have to if you don’t and they find out you will be fired. you just stop it and dont’ drink you need AAA and you need to get a grip on this mess. its sounding really bad and you need to stop and get on with your life. its sad but what you are having a withdrawals and that is what happends when you drink every day and don’t stop.

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Question by Curtis: Do I Qualify for Cal-SDI under these ICD-9 codes?
My doctor took me out of work after i went to him to seek treatment for severe stress and crippling anxiety related to that stress. After a short talk about my daily life and what was going on he put me on a short grocery list of medications and took me out of work for 8 weeks.
The primary diagnosis listed on the application was 300.02 (generalized anxiety disorder).
The secondary diagnosis was 291.81(alcohol with-drawl syndrome).
The notation for the diagnosis was “generalized anxiety disorder, depression, alcohol dependence and alcohol with-drawl.
The findings were “patient is undergoing severe anxiety and depression related to detoxing from alcohol”
My medications are Naltrexone, Gabapentin, Gydroxyzine,and Remeron. Some pretty heavy stuff.
It’s important to note that I did not go to my doctor because i felt i have a drinking problem. i drank nightly, but not heavily (1-4 beers a night after work). my doctor is a never-drink-again guru and that’s the path he decided to take, I have followed it to the letter.
My question is, with that primary and secondary diagnosis (not living in a treatment facility) do I qualify for California state disability. I’m obviously very concerned.
Thank you for taking the time to read this, and I appreciate any help or advice you can give me. I’m most interested in the recent law applied to my situation.

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Answer by Leo D
Maybe. It depends how long your depression and anxiety lasts once you have real sober time. Since alcohol is a depressant, if you didn’t have depression before, permanent disability will be very hard to prove without qualifying events, I.e., death of a spouse or child, illness, tragic loss, etc.

Then he or a therapist might add PTSD and you’d have a better case.

You could try for temporary disability until you know where you are with some real sobriety under you. Interestingly, beer drinkers often also have wheat or yeast allergies that contribute to mood disorders. Take away the beer and things get much better in a month or two.

Unless you have severe depression, it will be hard to get temporary disability, but it’s worth trying to support your full-time sobriety effort for a few months.

Know that it can take 3-6 months to get approved in California and benefits are 400-800 a month. Can you live on that?

In the meantime, call 211 on your phone. It’s the United Way. They can give you resources for shelter, housing, free food banks, clothing and more.

The very best of luck to you. I know 4 beers doesn’t seem like much, but most people don’t drink every week, let alone every day… Bummer, but true… Lol! I’ll have you in my daily good wishes for a better life!

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Alcohol differential treatment depending on the problem and the individual needs of each client, but there are some common characteristics that are used in the treatment of most programs alcohol.

This article analyzes in detail the main features of a typical alcohol-rehab.

Therapy plays an important role in recovery from alcoholism to alcohol. In alcohol rehab, alcoholism and counseling for therapeutic intervention is one of the best ways to treat the underlying problems causing the problem considered? Cognitive behavior therapy focuses, to see how you yourself, others and the environment in which we live is to see to the specific situations and understand how to think, feel and behave feels comfortable. This type of alcohol treatment is often used in alcohol rehabilitation centers because they are the people to acquire useful skills to prevent relapse of alcohol in the future.

Another method, in places such as a rehabilitation center for alcohol is a drug. Pharmacological treatment of alcohol, the regulation of thought and gradually reduces the intensity of dependence on alcohol, so that the person is less dependent on alcohol as a means of survival.

In a rehabilitation center for alcohol detoxification alcohol is often a key element in the production of alcohol. This method of liberation of the system from all harmful substances in alcohol may be very useful, but must be under strict medical supervision. Without advice from health professionals, suddenly block the flow of drugs, symptoms of alcohol dependence withdrawal of potentially life-threatening cause.

All in all, in fact, there are many ways to cope with and overcome addiction to alcohol. As mentioned above, although these methods vary according to individual needs, there are usually some common tactic in most cases alcohol is used. First aid can really the first step to a better life and there can be no better place for the Alcohol Addiction Treatment for alcoholics, which is also prepared that they need to start offering in order to achieve the happiness and the causes of alcohol and alcohol-related harm .

If you went deep into alcoholism, then it’s not too late to achieve a disease and it is time to help get rid of the disease to other hotels.

There are many rehabilitation centers, to join us kick the habit. If it is for a rehabilitation center for alcoholics in your city is not a difficult task, since all information on the Internet so we need only surf the web. Do not be afraid, for alcohol rehabilitation centers, ask others not ashamed to ask, which is similar to a hospital for treatment of diseases. They make a relevant and good for you.

Intervention phase: preparation means here addicted to alcohol rehabilitation. After I confirmed the directors that they are not under pressure at the start of treatment.

Alcohol detoxification phase: alcohol rehabilitation centers use special methods to help the detoxification of drugs given different diets and exercises, detoxification of alcohol in the body.

Rehabilitation-Follow-up: Monitoring and reintegration is the most important phase of treatment in rehabilitation centers alcohol. Help at this stage to different teaching methods and techniques are taught to control calls.

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Question by denveryay: How is it possible to absolutely categorize Alcoholim as a disease and not an illness?
“Disease” is a very loosely defined term in many respects. There are multiple disorders, infenctions, and symptoms that can be typical of a definable disease. Also, a disease must have specific and constant cause(s), which in the case of Alcoholism is the CHOICE to drink ethyl-alcohol. The cause of the “disease” is the recurring and disregarding CHOICE to drink. A choice, however pathological or illogical, doesn’t seem to be appropriate as a cause or a condition of any disease. Despite the negative psychological, physiological, and other results of long-term alcohol abuse, it seems that it shouldn’t be classified as anything more than a treatable mental disorder.

“Illness, although often used to mean disease, can also refer to a person’s perception of their health, regardless of whether they in fact have a disease. A person without any disease may feel unhealthy and believe he has an illness. Another person may feel healthy and believe he does not have an illness even though he may have a disease” – Wikipedia on ‘Disease’

It is true that if some Alcoholics didn’t have a disease to blame for their disorder, they would not be able to stop drinking. It is also true that because of Alcholism-as-a-disease, many people who ABUSE alcohol are led into misperceptions about their drinking habits. In fact, it is only alcohol DEPENDENCE that could possibly even begin to be categorized as a disease.

An individual who is alcohol-dependent exhibits behavior indicitive of addiction. Drink-seeking, withdrawal and tolerance, and psychological malfunction among others are the results and symptoms of addiction. My father and friends have struggled with alchohol and drug addictions and I have seen the both successful and unsuccessful treatments implemented in their lives.

It seems that Alcoholism and drug addictions are psychological disorders that in a vast majority of instances could be cured by a conscious choice (however difficult) to STOP using the cause of the addiction. It has been proven in many instances that an addict can stop using the object of their addiction without any complications, as long as they are commited to quitting.

It seems that diseases should only be those such as Cancer, Diabetes, Hepatitis and the like. People who have these diseases cannot make a choice to simply stop a behavior to ease their pains. Whereas, although undoubtedly difficult, an addict can ease his or her addiction by making a powerful choice to stop using.

By allowing alcoholism to be categorized as a disease, it seems that negative stigma is removed from addicts’ behaviors and people who drink are given an excuse to justify their behavior. Instead of feeling like they’ve let themselves and their families down, they are able to blam their behavior on a cause outside of their control, which is simply not true.

“Neither the U.S. Veterans Administration nor the Social Security Administration makes payments to individuals, whose disabilities stem from substance abuse, including alcoholism.” – From Shoutwire

I am NOT pro- or anti- any of this I am looking for factual objective evidence and ideas that could lead to helping me understand why Alchoholism is given reprieve by its disease classification.

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Answer by kentuckyredhead5353
Well about half way through I had a problem and I developed this question. What is the difference with what you were saying in comparison to a cigarette smoker for some it’s the habit and the motion and some get physically sick for the lack of nicotine is it not similar. emotional vs physical and different for different personality types? 🙂 Guess I could read on have a good one:-)
OK I’m finally done now i get it, it’s all in there head so all they have to do is get it out of their head and it will all go away. They just will it away. Take 2 aspirins have a sucker and call me in the morning:-)
oh excuse me revision: update-read the last part. it was taken out as a disease because social security was being drained by leagal alcoholics that the government makes good taxes off of. The only help and recourse for a recovering alcoholic, drug user, vet, is a mental health clinic because why did they drink in the first place. Now uncle sam pays for their drugs and kills them off with a lousy health plan. looks who is on all the class action suits that will never collect anything. Trust me I have done my homework on this subject. I know many vets and low income disabled people. Nothing has changed but the name of the disease.

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