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Is drinking a normal activity?

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Judith Welles Cousins
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, private practitioner
judithwellescousinslcsw.com  
703-921-1166

Judith has worked in the field of mental health and substance abuse since 1988,  She received her Masters in Social Work from Virginia Commonweatlh University in 1991 and was licensed as a clinical social worker in 1994.  In her private practice, Judith sees adults, families, children and adolescents, and couples. She addresses such issues as substance abuse, depession, anxiety, family discord, couple conflict, poor school performance, and  life transitions. Judith believes that within each individual, family, and couple are the resources to change, heal, and thrive.  Through the process of psychotherapy, she assists clients to identify and use these resources to gain personal and relational well-being.      

Is drinking a normal activity?

In this video, Judy Cousins, Clinical Social Worker, will provide answers to questions regarding reasons to quit drinking. Judy will include information regarding the nature of alcohol use, the positive and negative consequences of use, and effective strategies for quitting drinking.

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Judith W. Cousins: Hi, I am Judith W. Cousins and I am a clinical social worker and I am going to talk about reasons to drink. When we think about drinking and we think about having a problem with drinking, people look at it in a negative way. I am going to talk about what are the positive reasons to drink, why do people drink as well as some of the negative reasons why people drink.

Host: Is drinking a normal activity?

Judith W. Cousins: Drinking can be considered a normal activity. If something that is done in most societies, if not all, people have been drinking for thousands of years and for a number of different reasons and so in that sense it is a normal and expectable activity. I don t consider drinking either good or bad and I consider drinking more in a sense that it is a neutral activity. People drink for a lot of reasons. Some of them have negative consequences, some of them have positive consequences, but in it and of itself, drinking is typically a normal activity in it. I consider a neutral activity.

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