Group Counseling For Senior Citizens Addicted To Drugs & Alcohol
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...impeccably dressed and soft-spoken. she is quick to smile, 72 years old, and drug free for the first time in 30 years. It has been a difficult passage the months of general malaise, gastric distress, headaches and insomnia. She was determined, she sought help, and she won. The prescription tranquilizers and stimulant medications had drawn a chemical "curtain" which had blocked her full participation in life since a "nervous breakdown" she had suffered at age 40. Fred is tall, grey-haired and friendly, a dapper, easygoing, sociable man. At 68, he is back on the golf course and has taken a part-time job so he can "stay busy." Ten months ago, he was hospitalized, so weakened by malnutrition secondary to alcoholism that he was unable to walk. He had also become isolated from his large circle of family and friends. Retirement and the death of his wife were crisis events which had triggered his excessive drinking and the rapid development of alcohol dependency. Lois and Fred would...
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