A support worker helps alcoholics transition back into the community when they leave hospital.
An Edinburgh charity has started a new service to befriend people suffering from alcohol-related illness while they are in hospital.
The service will be mainly aimed at those suffering from alcohol-related brain damage. The bulk of alcohol admissions each year involve mental and behavioural conditions - such as withdrawal and acute intoxication.Tracey Stewart, Cards service lead, said: "When the hospital make a referral, we will go and visit the person in their own home when they have been discharged.
She said: "It means that when they come out I can go straight to their home. There is not the whole referral gap that we have at the moment." "It stopped me for a long time because I thought, well, I still have my family, I still have my home, I still go out and see my friends… So do I have a problem?'Here I go again'Amanda was in her early 40s when she became dependent on alcohol. She said she'd always classed herself as a "heavy drinker", telling The Nine: "I would always have one for the road.""I was thinking, 'I'm drinking too much.
Amanda soon found herself ping-ponging between the bottle and a hospital bed, being admitted on multiple occasion for alcohol-related illness."I would stay in for two or three days. They would put me on drips and diazepam to calm me down, to withdraw me from the alcohol and then I'd be discharged."I would just think, 'I'll just have a couple of drinks', but no. It just got worse and worse every single time.
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