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Summary: In today's world, it can be difficult for a recovering alcoholic to get disability benefits, although this used to be something that was easier to obtain. Discover how the majority of recovering alcoholics are able to get back into the work force with help from a licensed mental health counselor in this free video on alcohol abuse.
Dr. David Thomas has been certified as a licensed mental health counselor in the state of Florida since 1986 and in the National Board of Certified Counselors since 1987. He has worked...read more
"Hi! I'm Dr. David Thomas. I'm a practicing psychotherapist in Tampa, Florida with the Whitford Thomas Group. Here to discuss disability benefits for recovering alcoholics. I think in today's contemporary times, disability benefits for recovering alcoholics is much more difficult to get, to get awarded. Years passed it was a much easier to do. But I think when we're talking about disability benefits with recovering alcoholics, what we're trying to figure out is if a alcoholic or was alcohol dependent recover is in recovery and therefore has stopped and absent and maintain it for extended period of time. Why won't that individual, why can't that individual go back into the work force? I think it's an indiv, it's on an individual basis but certainly instead of focusing on disability benefits to assist recovering alcoholic, we may want to work on more vocational training and attempt to try to help that recovering alcoholic to get back into the work force. There's certainly the vast majority of recovering alcoholics are able to get back into the work force, some never actually leave the work force, they're still maintain their jobs and things of that sort. So, I think when we're talking about recovering alcoholics and disability benefits, we don't want to focus so much on how do we get them or how does that work but more so is how can we get the recovering alcoholic to get back on their seat feet and then get back in the work force, for whatsoever reasons certainly helps them, helps our community and I think it's, both individuals or when. Disability benefits were all practices purposes I believe that most people would tell you this, you can't live very easily on disability benefits. There's just not enough money there. So, certainly let's put our focus on getting a recovering alcoholic to make the changes and necessary to maintain their work or get into a new line of work, do some possibly some vocational training. I hope this information has been helpful to you. From Tampa, Florida, I'm Dr. David Thomas."
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