The Sobriety :60 - Alcohol and healthcare costs

Twenty to 40 percent of general hospital beds are used for managing alcohol-related health complications.  Here's a minute on the top driver of healthcare costs. Episode #5 - Healthcare Overhaul can be found at http://youtu.be/j7Xif-Azh0g

Visit alcohologist.com for a replay of the Bringing Inspiration To Earth show feature with Scott Stevens. Lucy Pireel's "All That's Written" included a feature on Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud called "When alcohol doesn't work for you anymore."  Details on the third literary award for Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud also can be found on www.alcohologist.com, plus an interview with Scott Stevens on Health Media Now and one at Christoph Fisher Books.  Mr. Fisher is an acclaimed international author from the UK, among his works is the Alzheimer's book "Time to Let Go."  

The Sobriety :60 - Stroke

Drinking, drinking often or drinking to excess is the cause of one-in-five strokes.  Here's a minute on alcohol as a stroke risk factor. Episode #4 - Stroke can be found at http://youtu.be/nfmSiLgWXUM

Visit alcohologist.com for a replay of the Bringing Inspiration To Earth show feature with Scott Stevens. Lucy Pireel's "All That's Written" included a feature on Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud called "When alcohol doesn't work for you anymore."  Details on the third literary award for Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud also can be found on www.alcohologist.com, plus an interview with Scott Stevens on Health Media Now and one at Christoph Fisher Books.  Mr. Fisher is an acclaimed international author from the UK, among his works is the Alzheimer's book "Time to Let Go."  

Alcoholism is fatal: Recovery Month begins tomorrow

"Alcoholism is fatal.  If drinking doesn't kill you immediately in a wreck or OD, it will get you years later in other illnesses. Drinking often or in excess is like stepping out onto a highway: The truck just hasn't hit you yet" -- from Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud

Visit alcohologist.com for a replay of the Bringing Inspiration To Earth show feature with Scott Stevens. Lucy Pireel's "All That's Written" included a feature on Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud called "When alcohol doesn't work for you anymore."  Details on the third literary award for Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud also can be found on www.alcohologist.com, plus an interview with Scott Stevens on Health Media Now and one at Christoph Fisher Books.  Mr. Fisher is an acclaimed international author from the UK, among his works is the Alzheimer's book "Time to Let Go."  

Bored is NOT an excuse to drink: Two days to Recovery Month

"When an alcoholic says he's bored, that statement has more BS than a rodeo. It's a warning sign all right:  A warning that he's spending way too much time thinking of himself."
-- from Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud

Visit alcohologist.com for a replay of the Bringing Inspiration To Earth show feature with Scott Stevens. Lucy Pireel's "All That's Written" included a feature on Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud called "When alcohol doesn't work for you anymore."  Details on the third literary award for Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud also can be found on www.alcohologist.com, plus an interview with Scott Stevens on Health Media Now and one at Christoph Fisher Books.  Mr. Fisher is an acclaimed international author from the UK, among his works is the Alzheimer's book "Time to Let Go."  

The only way is through it: Three days to Recovery Month

"You cannot go from drinking to recovery by skipping the pain any more than you can go from Kindergarten straight to college." -- from Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud

Visit alcohologist.com for a replay of the Bringing Inspiration To Earth show feature with Scott Stevens. Lucy Pireel's "All That's Written" included a feature on Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud called "When alcohol doesn't work for you anymore."  Details on the third literary award for Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud also can be found on www.alcohologist.com, plus an interview with Scott Stevens on Health Media Now and one at Christoph Fisher Books.  Mr. Fisher is an acclaimed international author from the UK, among his works is the Alzheimer's book "Time to Let Go."  

Alcohol causes diseases other than alcoholism: Four days to Recovery Month

"The weight of scientific evidence demonstrates a link between alcohol and a greater risk of mortality for diseases of the immunological, nervous, cardiovascular, respiratory and digestive systems. Period."
-- from Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud

Visit alcohologist.com for a replay of the Bringing Inspiration To Earth show feature with Scott Stevens. Lucy Pireel's "All That's Written" included a feature on Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud called "When alcohol doesn't work for you anymore."  Details on the third literary award for Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud also can be found on www.alcohologist.com, plus an interview with Scott Stevens on Health Media Now and one at Christoph Fisher Books.  Mr. Fisher is an acclaimed international author from the UK, among his works is the Alzheimer's book "Time to Let Go."  

We tend to overdo sobriety like we overdid the booze: Five days to Recovery Month

"When the alcohol is gone we begin a struggle with guilt over things we did or failed to do or guilt over just having a disease.  Then we oversteer trying to prove we're not disappointing." -- from Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud

Visit alcohologist.com for a replay of the Bringing Inspiration To Earth show feature with Scott Stevens. Lucy Pireel's "All That's Written" included a feature on Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud called "When alcohol doesn't work for you anymore."  Details on the third literary award for Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud also can be found on www.alcohologist.com, plus an interview with Scott Stevens on Health Media Now and one at Christoph Fisher Books.  Mr. Fisher is an acclaimed international author from the UK, among his works is the Alzheimer's book "Time to Let Go."  

Part of your personhood dies: Six days to Recovery Month

"Parts of an alcoholic's personhood are traumatically lost to alcohol.  Hopes and aspirations end.  And they don't quietly slip away and die.  They die in spectacular fireballs. They are major losses to grieve."
-- from Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud

Visit alcohologist.com for a replay of the Bringing Inspiration To Earth show feature with Scott Stevens. Lucy Pireel's "All That's Written" included a feature on Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud called "When alcohol doesn't work for you anymore."  Details on the third literary award for Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud also can be found on www.alcohologist.com, plus an interview with Scott Stevens on Health Media Now and one at Christoph Fisher Books.  Mr. Fisher is an acclaimed international author from the UK, among his works is the Alzheimer's book "Time to Let Go."  

The next great frontier in medicine: Seven days to Recovery Month

"The lion's share of medical research in the U.S. goes toward cancer.  However, the accurate assessment, measurement and treatment (not mistreatment) of alcoholism will be the next great frontier in medicine because of how alcohol impacts so many other illnesses."-- from Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud

Visit alcohologist.com for a replay of the Bringing Inspiration To Earth show feature with Scott Stevens. Lucy Pireel's "All That's Written" included a feature on Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud called "When alcohol doesn't work for you anymore."  Details on the third literary award for Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud also can be found on www.alcohologist.com, plus an interview with Scott Stevens on Health Media Now and one at Christoph Fisher Books.  Mr. Fisher is an acclaimed international author from the UK, among his works is the Alzheimer's book "Time to Let Go."  

At the right time you have to move on: Eight days to Recovery Month

"Staying perpetually in grief does not prove you are MORE sorry." -- from Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud

Visit alcohologist.com for a replay of the Bringing Inspiration To Earth show feature with Scott Stevens. Lucy Pireel's "All That's Written" included a feature on Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud called "When alcohol doesn't work for you anymore."  Details on the third literary award for Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud also can be found on www.alcohologist.com, plus an interview with Scott Stevens on Health Media Now and one at Christoph Fisher Books.  Mr. Fisher is an acclaimed international author from the UK, among his works is the Alzheimer's book "Time to Let Go."  

Whiskey validates nothing: Nine days to Recovery Month

"My own 'therapist' for a few years was Jack Daniels of Lynchburg, Tenn. He never validated anything.  Invalidated plenty, including two marriages, a career, a bank account and a reputation.  But we didn't
really talk much."-- from Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud

Visit alcohologist.com for a replay of the Bringing Inspiration To Earth show feature with Scott Stevens. Lucy Pireel's "All That's Written" included a feature on Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud called "When alcohol doesn't work for you anymore."  Details on the third literary award for Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud also can be found on www.alcohologist.com, plus an interview with Scott Stevens on Health Media Now and one at Christoph Fisher Books.  Mr. Fisher is an acclaimed international author from the UK, among his works is the Alzheimer's book "Time to Let Go."  

Drinking made me dumb, but at least I wasn't indecisive: 10 days to Recovery Month

"Early sobriety was an annoyance because I couldn't think or assemble two coherent thoughts quickly. While drinking, the whiskey blunted my judgment, but at least I could make bad decisions more rapidly."
-- from Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud

Visit alcohologist.com for a replay of the Bringing Inspiration To Earth show feature with Scott Stevens. Lucy Pireel's "All That's Written" included a feature on Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud called "When alcohol doesn't work for you anymore."  Details on the third literary award for Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud also can be found on www.alcohologist.com, plus an interview with Scott Stevens on Health Media Now and one at Christoph Fisher Books.  Mr. Fisher is an acclaimed international author from the UK, among his works is the Alzheimer's book "Time to Let Go."  

If the liver had pain nerves, nobody would drink: 11 days to Recovery Month

"There are very few symptoms of liver damage until it becomes a crisis because the liver has no pain nerves to tell you it's injured.  If the liver had nerve endings, NONE of us would have a second drink." -- from Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud

Visit alcohologist.com for a replay of the Bringing Inspiration To Earth show feature with Scott Stevens. Lucy Pireel's "All That's Written" included a feature on Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud called "When alcohol doesn't work for you anymore."  Details on the third literary award for Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud also can be found on www.alcohologist.com, plus an interview with Scott Stevens on Health Media Now and one at Christoph Fisher Books.  Mr. Fisher is an acclaimed international author from the UK, among his works is the Alzheimer's book "Time to Let Go."  

Stress doesn't cause relapse, the reaction TO stress might: 12 days to Recovery Month

"Cortisol (stress hormone) and stress are not the cause of relapse. Relapse is the result of how you manage stress.  As Woodrow Wilson said, 'You have to cite the driver, not the automobile.'"
- from Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud

Visit alcohologist.com for a replay of the Bringing Inspiration To Earth show feature with Scott Stevens. Lucy Pireel's "All That's Written" included a feature on Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud called "When alcohol doesn't work for you anymore."  Details on the third literary award for Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud also can be found on www.alcohologist.com, plus an interview with Scott Stevens on Health Media Now and one at Christoph Fisher Books.  Mr. Fisher is an acclaimed international author from the UK, among his works is the Alzheimer's book "Time to Let Go."  

Not all counselors understand addictions: 13 days to Recovery Month

"Shop for a counselor by studying their areas of expertise, e.g. a family counselor might not have addiction experience.  If your river is the Mississippi, you're not going to benefit much from a Nile River guide." -- from Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud

Visit alcohologist.com for a replay of the Bringing Inspiration To Earth show feature with Scott Stevens. Lucy Pireel's "All That's Written" included a feature on Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud called "When alcohol doesn't work for you anymore."  Details on the third literary award for Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud also can be found on www.alcohologist.com, plus an interview with Scott Stevens on Health Media Now and one at Christoph Fisher Books.  Mr. Fisher is an acclaimed international author from the UK, among his works is the Alzheimer's book "Time to Let Go."  

The disease doesn't make you feel sick until you treat it: 14 days to Recovery Month

"One of the differences between alcoholism and most other chronic diseases that is so difficult to communicate is that with alcoholism, when you are the sickest and most acute, you don't FEEL sick because you are getting alcohol."
-- from Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud

Visit alcohologist.com for a replay of the Bringing Inspiration To Earth show feature with Scott Stevens. Lucy Pireel's "All That's Written" included a feature on Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud called "When alcohol doesn't work for you anymore."  Details on the third literary award for Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud also can be found on www.alcohologist.com, plus an interview with Scott Stevens on Health Media Now and one at Christoph Fisher Books.  Mr. Fisher is an acclaimed international author from the UK, among his works is the Alzheimer's book "Time to Let Go."  

There isn't a one-size-fits-all answer: 15 days to Recovery Month

"A person who is antisocial (e.g. breaks laws... antisocial isn't a synonym shy or reclusive) without the alcohol is not the same as someone who has had antisocial behavior only while drinking. The two require different treatment.  There isn't a one-size-fits-all answer." -- from Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud

Visit alcohologist.com for a replay of the Bringing Inspiration To Earth show feature with Scott Stevens. Lucy Pireel's "All That's Written" included a feature on Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud called "When alcohol doesn't work for you anymore."  Details on the third literary award for Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud also can be found on www.alcohologist.com, plus an interview with Scott Stevens on Health Media Now and one at Christoph Fisher Books.  Mr. Fisher is an acclaimed international author from the UK, among his works is the Alzheimer's book "Time to Let Go."  

Why ask why? 16 days to Recovery Month

"Wondering why an alcoholic goes back to alcohol after getting sober is like wondering why, when you give a little boy two die-cast cars, the first thing he does is to smash them into each other." -- from Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud

Visit alcohologist.com for a replay of the Bringing Inspiration To Earth show feature with Scott Stevens. Lucy Pireel's "All That's Written" included a feature on Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud called "When alcohol doesn't work for you anymore."  Details on the third literary award for Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud also can be found on www.alcohologist.com, plus an interview with Scott Stevens on Health Media Now and one at Christoph Fisher Books.  Mr. Fisher is an acclaimed international author from the UK, among his works is the Alzheimer's book "Time to Let Go."  

Sober doesn't mean recovered: 17 days to Recovery Month

"In early sobriety, you're the firewood that's been drying a while, but you're not quite ready for the fireplace."

-- from Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud

Visit alcohologist.com for a replay of the Bringing Inspiration To Earth show feature with Scott Stevens. Lucy Pireel's "All That's Written" included a feature on Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud called "When alcohol doesn't work for you anymore."  Details on the third literary award for Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud also can be found on www.alcohologist.com, plus an interview with Scott Stevens on Health Media Now and one at Christoph Fisher Books.  Mr. Fisher is an acclaimed international author from the UK, among his works is the Alzheimer's book "Time to Let Go."  

Alcoholism has nothing to do with willpower: 18 days to Recovery Month

"We're all capable of accepting the consequences for our own actions.  It isn't up to a shamer to put us in our places over our shortcomings because they have some backward idea about how we have lacked
willpower or morals." -- from Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud

Visit alcohologist.com for a replay of the Bringing Inspiration To Earth show feature with Scott Stevens. Lucy Pireel's "All That's Written" included a feature on Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud called "When alcohol doesn't work for you anymore."  Details on the third literary award for Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud also can be found on www.alcohologist.com, plus an interview with Scott Stevens on Health Media Now and one at Christoph Fisher Books.  Mr. Fisher is an acclaimed international author from the UK, among his works is the Alzheimer's book "Time to Let Go."