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dtl_moderation_management.sPubDate = "9/1/2006 11:32:42 PM GMT";
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dtl_moderation_management.appHeader = "more info| On 'Moderation Management'";
dtl_moderation_management.appFooter = "Source: Dateline research, <a href=http://moderation.org/>Moderation Managent Web site</a>";
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dtl_moderation_management[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>According to its Web site, Moderation Management is a 'support group network for people concerned about their drinking and who want to make a lifestyle change.'<p>People can opt to join the program online, by going to meetings, or both. <br>";

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dtl_moderation_management[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>Moderation Management's program provides information about alcohol, moderate drinking guidelines and limits, drink monitoring exercises, goal setting techniques, and self-management strategies. ";

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dtl_moderation_management[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>The suggested MM limits are: for men no more than 14 drinks per week and no more than four on any given day; and for women no more than nine per week and no more than three on any given day.<p>In her book, Kishline also suggested refraining from drinking for at least three days a week. <br>";

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dtl_moderation_management[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>People who join the group are asked to go on an initial month-long period of abstinence.<p>Abstinence is one of the options an MM participant can choose for themselves, along with moderated drinking. According to their site, approximately 30 percent of members go on to abstinence-based programs.";

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dtl_moderation_management[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>Driving with ANY blood alcohol content is an absolute taboo in MM.";

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dtl_moderation_management[i-1].body = "<headline/><br>Treatment experts have clashed over the moderation approach. Some say it is useful for some kinds of drinkers. Others argue it gives alcoholics the false hope that they can learn ways to continue drinking.<p>\"So many alcoholics will try to go back to social drinking.  It doesn&#146;t work,\" said Dr. Nicholas Pace, co-founder of the Alcoholism Council of New York, in an interview with Dateline. <p>He called the experiment \"doomed,\" and emphasized that alcoholism is a progressive disease.<p>He also said that moderation management \"is... like trying to give a patient who is allergic to strawberries...a small amount of these substances and not expect an allergic reaction.\" ";

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