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Addiction


Patricia Lane, a 33-year-old physician consultant on chemical addiction, continues to study and work to obtain a master's degree. This woman has a purpose. She made a good career. But up to 25 years she led a completely different life. She was uncontrollable, lived in an alcoholic fog, drank more than a gallon of wine at a time, and it was repeated every evening.
"It took me years before I reached the bottom," says Patricia. At the age of 12 I already bottled the stool with a cough remedy, which then contained a hefty dose of alcohol. At the age of 13, I stopped taking cough and switched to real alcoholic beverages. At 18 I knew that I was an alcoholic. I began to fail in my memory, and I realized that I was dependent, which is unknown to other people. After two glasses, my friend could say: "I do not want any more, because I'm starting to get drunk". And I could ask: "Why do not you want it then?"
The fall of Patricia lasted until twenty-five years. "My life revolved around drinking, she says. I was looking for a job where drinking was quite appropriate. I did not go to places where I did not drink. I have not been in cinemas for many years, because it was impossible to drink there. Drunk, I was disgusting. I staggered from one bar to another, got drunk and went to fight. Sometimes I woke up somewhere in the park, all in the mud, not knowing how I got here. Drunk, I got behind the wheel of my car. It's just a miracle that I did not break up and hit no one in those years. "
By the time Patricia turned for help, she was in terrible condition. "My life was a living hell. It seemed to me that without alcohol I can not even breathe, she recalls. When I finally saw the reality in which I lived, the bedroom in the holes, the closed curtains, the TV, the telephone and the five liters of wine that made up my only company, I realized that I had to either get out of this or die. "
But Patricia not only did not die, she survived and prospered. "I decided to live a full life, with all its ups and downs, and without the help of alcohol," she says. It was a stunning turn of events by all standards, especially considering how close she approached to self-destruction.
From the PASS
Betty Ford, Lisa Minnelli, Kitty Dukakis, Elizabeth Taylor, this list of those dependent on alcohol or drugs could be continued and continue, including the famous and unrecognized, rich and poor, beauties and women of ordinary appearance. Not so long ago, women who were dependent on the use of chemicals, managed to avoid public attention. In practice, and now it succeeds them much more often than men.
"Until the early 1960s and the development of the women's movement, female alcoholism and other forms of dependence were seen as rare cases of" male "disease, says Kathleen Bell Anger, MD, associate professor, clinician at the Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Francisco. Hence the manifestation of dependence in women is often ignored, it was not written about, it was not diagnosed and most often was not treated. "
"In reality, 40 percent of all adults who abuse alcohol and drugs are women, and among youth this figure is close to 50," adds Jane Gaunt, a licensed consultant on alcohol and drug addiction, the inspector of the Betty Ford Center for Women in Rancho Mirage , California State. In our center, 70 percent of women are treated for chronic alcoholism. On the second place got used to tranquilizers and anaesthetising medicines, on the third predilection for cocaine ". And many find two diseases simultaneously.
"Women are particularly at risk of multiple addiction," adds Sherri Matteo, Ph.D., deputy head of the Research Institute for Women and Gender at Stanford University. They are more likely than men to hide their alcoholism, so when they come to the doctor, they complain of fatigue, depression, anxiety or stress, which is usually associated with problems in the family, at school or at work. "
"These are all the symptoms that are most often treated with sedatives, small doses of tranquilizers or other psychotropic medications," says Dr. Matteo. The woman is not questioned, and the real problem remains unsolved. " It can not be a mere coincidence, adds Dr. Gaunt, that two-thirds of all drugs of this kind are prescribed to women.





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