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Rehab News: Review suggests ways of reducing children's exposure to alcohol abuse

A review of international research has suggested a number of ways in which children whose parents are alcoholics may be protected from the problems usually associated with alcohol abuse.

Authors noted that, while children whose parents have alcohol problems often suffer, many are resilient to the negative impacts of parental alcohol misuse.

Professor Richard Velleman, a researcher at the UK's Mental Health R&D Unit, said: "Whilst it is easy to become pessimistic about the future of children brought up in these kinds of environments, we find in practice that some children are resilient; they develop no significant problems related to their parents' substance misuse.

"We have looked through the research literature on this subject and drawn on our own research with more than 1,000 people whose families have been affected by substance misuse to find out why this might be, and how we can encourage similar results elsewhere."

The review highlights factors that make children more resilient to the negative impacts of parental alcohol misuse, including improving parenting techniques, helping the child to disengage from negative situations, and support from school, family and other networks.

"There is growing recognition of the importance of involving the family in drug and alcohol treatments programmes," Professor Velleman continued.

"Family members are often overlooked, and it is important that they receive support in their own right; it's not just about changing the behaviour of the misuser," he concluded.

Article published on 25/09/2007 by DryOutNow.com

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Primary care settings provide successful alcohol treatment

A study has revealed that alcoholism can successfully be treated in a primary care setting with a combination of brief sessions with a doctor and either the drug naltrexone or specialised alcohol ...

Alcohol misuse in older people 'under reported'

Studies into alcohol misuse tend to focus so much on younger people that misuse among older people is often described as a "hidden" area of research, Alcohol Concern has said.

Frank Soodeen, press and parliamentary officer at the national agency, said that older people tend to drink more regularly than younger people and that it is therefore vital that they seek treatment to help them address their underlying problems.

"Twenty-seven per cent of men and 18 per cent of women ...

Alcoholics with cirrhosis 'at higher risk of brain damage'

Alcoholics who have cirrhosis of the liver are more likely to suffer brain damage than non-cirrhotic alcoholics, experts have said.

Sustained drinking is known to cause liver scarring and dysfunction, known as cirrhosis.

It is also known to cause brain damage, but the latest research has found that this impairment of brain function is even worse if the drinker also suffers from cirrhosis.

Researchers at the University of Texas analysed brain samples taken from seven cirrhotic and 14 non-cirrhotic cases to determine the extent of genetic changes.

R. Dayne Mayfield, research scientist at the Waggoner Centre for Alcohol and Addiction Research at the University of Texas, commented: "We found that the levels of many important brain genes changed in the cirrhotic patients.

"These genes are important in regulating cell death and how individual cells in the brain talk to each other in a meaningful way."

John Krystal, professor of clinical pharmacology and deputy chairman for research in the department of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, added: "The level of gene expression differed significantly between tissue from cirrhotic and non-cirrhotic alcoholics.

"With the levels of so many genes changing, this study suggests widespread effects in many cellular pathways related to cirrhosis in the alcoholic group."

The results are published in the journal of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

Article published on 02/09/2007

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