[Alcohol and work: remaining sober and return to work].
BACKGROUND
One of the most complex alcohol-driven problems is the job loss and the subsequent attempts to return to a professional activity.


METHODS
In order to better understand the issue, an epidemiologic investigation was carried out on a group of 162 alcoholics whilst hospitalised in a specialised clinic.


RESULTS
The outcome shows the importance of remaining sober to keep or to be returned to one's own job. Unfortunately, local resources at hand, first of all joining an auto-mutual-help group, re still too little known and thus clearly underemployed. Therefore, an informative action within companies is highly desirable. Those alcoholics suffering from serious illnesses, especially mental ones represent a different issue.


CONCLUSIONS
For these people a higher involvement of public authorities is desirable in creating protected job openings.
UO Riabilitazione alcologica - Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri IRCCS Pavia. gvittadini@fsm.it
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D000437:Alcoholism / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016272:Occupational Health; D013695:Temperance; D014937:Work