Posted on 02/19/2023 12:55:21 PM PST by nickcarraway
Is going cold turkey the way to tackle alcoholism? For some patients, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital advocates a different approach by, for example, encouraging them to reduce their intake rather than harp on abstinence.
Emergency physician Desmond Mao has encountered many a drunkard. At work, the protocol was to treat their physical ailments and send them home with a referral to an addictions specialist.
Outside of work, he used to give them a wide berth. Like most people, perhaps, he “didn’t want any trouble”, he said.
But these days, his nonchalance has turned to curiosity. It was propelled by a nagging problem in Khoo Teck Puat Hospital’s (KTPH)’s emergency department, where he has been practising for some 12 years: The same patients with alcohol misuse kept returning. These patients could come in with chest or leg pains — symptoms of overdrinking — or could be brought in by paramedics because they were on the streets, flat-out drunk. Sometimes they were “rowdy” and caused the department “a bit of grief”.
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I thought this had something to do with the Arts & Entertainment Channel?
It seems it doesn’t!
I am highly skeptical of this. Places like New York City and San Francisco have taken this same approach with heroin addicts, indeed, to an absurd extreme - providing them needles, housing and "safe spaces" where they can shoot up.
Its an utter failure that just creates more addiction, more crime, more deaths, more spending - and more bloated, politicized "woke" public employees
lol — me too. Figured AA started running PBAs on A&E for at-home guidance
I’ve been to Singapore many times. If I had to live there, I’d be drunk all the time too.
Yeah, no, try reading the article before typing with your elbows. You might actually need this ARFA treatment.
I went to Singapore when I was a kid, and I loved it. A lot better than some other places.
I love the place to visit. It gets duller than dishwater after a while.
If this doctor wishes to attempt this as an individual, part of a charity, or local initiative, then God bless him. As a matter of politicized government health politics - there's absolutely nothing new here. You will be spouting the same progressive BS that has failed miserably everywhere else.
Government bureaucrats will NEVER cure addition. Indeed, they only ever increase it.
The only way for an alcoholic to get sober is to be rigorously honest with one's self. Some people are incapable of that. It's not their fault really, some people are just born that way. Most alcoholics do recover once they've come to understand the ability to be honest. AA, the worlds oldest self help group is the only program that works. One alcoholic helping another.
Agree completely. And congrats:) 06/29/198
Thanks. It works when you work it.
Wow, still haven't read the article. LOFL!
Preaching to the choir here! Twenty six years (6/22/97). Self Honesty, commitment, trust in your God, help others.
Sounds closer to an average Frenchman than a serious alcoholic...
;>)
Finally got an official acronym for my fridge visits.
One day at a time. As trite as that sounds it’s worked for me for 33 years. On the 25th. of this month.
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It will be 42 years for me on 7/July/’23
Who ever wrote this has no idea what in the world they’re talking about.
If you admit to having a drinking problem and think moderating your drinking is going to be less problematic you’re dead wrong.
Either you admit you have a problem or you don’t.
There’s no in between.
God bless you. It works when you work it.
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