Alcoholism

• She lived with it for years, hiding bottles of alcohol so her partner wouldn’t find out.
• Alcoholism, or alcohol use disorder, as it is known in medical terms, is the compulsion to drink alcohol even when it can cause physical or mental health problems.
• In people with alcohol use disorder, there may be a physical need to drink alcohol to stop withdrawal symptoms like the sweats or shakes.
• Most of the patients I see in hospital with alcohol-related liver disease have alcohol use disorder.

Stigma is common

• First, there is public stigma.
• This is the most common type of stigma, where people believe in negative stereotypes, develop prejudice, and avoid or look down on people with alcohol use disorder – the drunk on the street might be aggressive so best to avoid him.
• Second, there is stigma from healthcare professionals.
• The more stigma they experience, the more self-stigma they develop and the more they feel that they deserve such treatment.

Things may have turned out differently

• She battled her addiction for several years and with the support of alcohol services and her family, managed several months at a stretch without alcohol.
• I can’t help but think that if Emma hadn’t experienced all that stigma, things may have turned out differently for her.
• She may have been able to get help to control her addiction and prevent liver disease from taking her life.

Ashwin Dhanda receives funding from the National Institute of Health and Social Care Research for a study investigating methods to tackle stigma in alcohol-related liver disease.

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• Even as he deteriorated before their eyes, people threw him lifelines because no matter how bad things got, Jack seemed close to salvageable.
• Those who loved him never stopped trying to pull him back from the brink.
• In his three-novella series, Seattle author Christopher J. Stockwell weaves the story of Jack, an alcoholic, drug-addicted, mentally ill homeless man who epitomizes the lonesome souls on the streets of Seattle.
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