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Alcohol Addiction

Alcohol Addiction treatment in Naples florida continues to increase in an all time record. The Willough at Naples in Naples Florida continue to have more and more youth with alcohol addiction. The alcohol industry profits from children and has no economic interest to reduce underage drinking. Underage drinking accounts for $22.5 billion of the total $116.2 billion spent by consumers on alcoholic beverages. This, coupled with the fact that the average age at which children begin drinking is 12 years old, presents an alarming cost to society. South Florida and Naples Florida Alcohol addiction is relatively high compared to the rest of the country. Fortunately, Alcohol treatment in Naples and South Florida is now more readily availabe. Addiction recovery is now a state of the art treatment that does not require time away from work.

The challenge to alcohol treatment is to detox a patient without inpatient hospitalization. The more complicated cases where the patient has suffered from alcohol hallucinations requires inpatient treatment using Librium, Ativan, Klonopin or Valium. Roughly 3% of persons with alcoholism experience psychosis during acute intoxication or withdrawal. Approximately 10% of patients who are dependent on alcohol who are in withdrawal experience severe withdrawal symptomatology, including psychosis. I currently admit to the The Willough at Naples for Alcohol withdrawal and detox.

Outpatient treatment of Alcohol addiction is done in Naples and South Florida with new medications that permit you live your life as you are being medically treated with various medications that can include Vivitrol, Campral, Revia (naltexone) and newer off label medications such as Topamax. These drugs show good results but take a while before you can begin to see the reduction of anxiety and cravings.

Prometa Treatment Program for alcohol dependence continues to show the most rapid results in my practice in alleviating anxiety, reducing the craving from alcohol and improve the cognition (mental clarity) from alcohol addiction.

Alcohol addiction is often associated with patients that have secondary problems such as Social Phobia, Anxiety disorder and Depression, Bipolar II. Perhaps the most important reason for alcohol relapse is anxiety related to the above illnesses. The traditional Alcoholics Anonymous has been around for many years with a treatment philosophy second to none. AA has helped many lives since its inception. The concept that the medical disease can be treated only with sponsors and frequent meetings has many merits. However, the traditional principles that no other medication should substitute the alcohol to treat the disease needs to be revisited. Strong will and support is not enough to treat the medical disease of alcohol dependence.

I have added this data to impress upon the growing problem of alchol dependence in this country. Here is some data directly from the Office of Applied Studies in regards to youth and substance abuse

On an average day in 2006, youth used the following substances for the first time: 7,970 drank alcohol for the first time, 4,348 used an illicit drug for the first time, 4,082 smoked cigarettes for the first time, 3,577 used marijuana for the first time, and 2,517 used pain relievers nonmedically for the first time.
Youth who used alcohol in the past month drank an average of 4.7 drinks per day on the days they drank and those who smoked cigarettes in the past month smoked an average of 4.6 cigarettes per day on the days they smoked.
On a average day in 2005, the number of youth admissions to substance abuse treatment were referred by the following sources: 189 by the criminal justice system; 66 by self-referral or referral from other individuals; 43 by schools; 37 by community organizations; 22 by alcohol or drug treatment providers; and 18 by other health providers
In the United States in 2006, one third of adolescents or more than 8 million adolescents aged 12 to 17 drank alcohol in the past year
on an average day during the past year, 650,539 adolescents aged 12 to 17 drank alcohol

A question i get asked a great deal is how much is too much. If we define the consumption as follows:

Binge use - Five or more drinks on the same occasion (i.e., at the same time or within a couple of hours of each other) on at least 1 day in the past 30 days (includes heavy use).
Heavy use - Five or more drinks on the same occasion on each of 5 or more days in the past 30 days

then the stastistics of alcohol addiction in the United States is staggering

More than one fifth (23.0 percent) of persons aged 12 or older participated in binge drinking at least once in the 30 days prior to the survey in 2006. This translates to about 57 million people. The rate in 2006 is similar to the rate in 2005 (22.7 percent).
In 2006, heavy drinking was reported by 6.9 percent of the population aged 12 or older, or 17 million people. This percentage is similar to the rate of heavy drinking in 2005 (6.6 percent).

Outpatient Alcohol treatment in Naples and South Florida is available in my office. Addiction Recovery and my treatment approach is a combination of detox, nutritional, medication management with the integration of group and individual therapies. In complicated cases it is often necessary to hospitalize. Call for an Alcohol evaluation to see what is the best treatment plan for you to start alcohol addiction recovery.