MIXED PROBLEMS

The CLUB is OPEN, it has no barriers for different RACES, RELIGIONS or e CLASSES. It is OPEN to all FAMILIES with ALCOHOL RELATED PROBLEMS and other INCIDENTAL TROUBLES VARIOUS ASPECTS of the SUFFERING H. Bosch – Hell (particular)

NOT always in DIRECT RELATION with ALCOHOL NOT always NECESSARILY ORIGINATED by ALCOHOL consumption OFTEN COMPLICATE the ALCOHOL PROBLEM MIXED PROBLEMS

Taking OTHER DRUGS SOCIAL PROBLEMS BEHAVIOURAL PROBLEMS PSYCHIC TROUBLES PSYCHIATRIC DESEASES MIXED PROBLEMS:

ILLEGAL: COCAINE HEROINE CANNABIS KRAK ECSTASY DISCO DRUGS LEGAL DRUGS: TOBACCO ANTI DEPRESSANTS Taking OTHER DRUGS

LONELY PEOPLE IMMIGRANTS Former PRISONER HOMELESS SOCIAL TROUBLES

GAMBLING DANGEROUS DRIVING AGGRESSIVITY FEEDING DISORDERS BEHAVIOURAL DISTURBANCES Botero

SLEEP DISTURBANCES ANXIETY DEPRESSION MOOD INSTABILITY PSYCHIC DISORDERS

SCHIZOFRENIA RISK of SUICIDE PERSONALITY DISTURBANCES IMBECILLITY PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS Before entering the CLUB, the affected person must be checked by the PSYCHIATRIST, who subsequently, must keep in touch with the SERVANT - TEACHER

PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS ALCOHOL INFLUENCES the MENTAL DESEASE: MAKES the symptoms APPEAR earlier WORSEN the CLINICAL PICTURE DISCONTINUING ALCOHOL (ABSTINENCE) MAKES the DIAGNOSIS EASIER

EVERY FIVE FAMILIES with ALCOHOL RELATED PROBLEMS The CLUB can ACCOMODATE ONE FAMILY with MIXED PROBLEMS

The CLUB WELCOMES the FAMILY with MIXED PROBLEMS with SOLIDARITY, WAITING for THEM to EXPRESS their PROBLEMS in an EMPATHETIC atmosphere with RESPECT and ATTENTION WELCOMING

DIFFERENT APPROACHES to ALCOHOLISM

MORALISTIC APPROACH (since longtime): Drinking as a VICE Therapy: CRITICISM, REPROACHES MEDICAL APPROACH (mid 1800): Drinking as a DESEASE 1st phase considered as PHYSICAL DESEASE 2nd phase (1900) considered PSYCHIC DESEASE Therapy: FARMACOLOGICAL and PSYCHIATRIC CARE SOCIAL ECOLOGICAL APPROACH (since 1964): Drinking as a LIFESTYLE (BEHAVIOUR) Therapy: CHANGING the LIFESTYLE through the CLUB Hudolin’s Method

BELIEVES THAT ALCOHOLISM IS A LIFE STYLE, A BEHAVIOUR a way to COMMUNICATE that creates PROBLEMS: SOCIAL ECOLOGICAL APPROACH (HUDOLIN METHODOLOGY) To the INDIVIDUAL To the FAMILY To the COMMUNITY V. Hudolin

ALCOHOLISM and ALCOHOL – RELATD PROBLEMS have ancient origins in our SOCIAL and GENERAL CULTURE The “DRINKING CULTURE” is the RESULT of COMMON PLACES, HABITS and VESTED INTERESTS

ALTERING THE BALANCE Of the INDIVIDUAL Of the FAMILY Of the COMMUNITY ALCOHOLISM DETERMINS SEVERE TROUBLES (PHYSICAL, PSYCHIC and SOCIAL)

ALCOHOLISM CAUSES and GROWS WORSE many DESEASES but IT IS NOT by ITSELF a DESEASE SMOKING and TAKING DRUGS CAUSE and GROW WORSE some DESEASES but they are NOT by themselves a DESEASE THEY ARE BEHAVIOURS that CANNOT BE CORRECTED ONLY PHARMACEUTICALLY

ALCOHOLISM is NOT a DESEASE It’s a BEHAVIOUR, a LIFE STYLE, PAINFUL and LOSING for the INDIVIDUAL for the FAMILY for the COMMUNITY