[Group psychological education film pathway for alcoholics and their families: a study on changes].

Objective: This research evaluates the individual traits and family system dysfunctional habits modification of participants in the multi-family psychological education group 'Primo Percorso' (GPP) of the alcohology service NOA Perini - ASST Fatebenefratelli - Sacco, Milano. This is constituted by a multi-discipline team (physicians, systemic psychologists psychotherapists, social worker and professional educator). The GPP was created to allow participants to work on themselves, on their own personal story and on their dysfunctional family relationships with tools that stem from reflecting on 12 topics, which are explained and developed by a therapist also through film watching.

Alcohol-related chronic exocrine pancreatic insufficiency: diagnosis and therapeutic management. A proposal for treatment by the Italian Association for the Study of the Pancreas (AISP) and the Italian Society of Alcohology (SIA).

Current estimates of the prevalence of chronic pancreatitis, one of the most common causes of exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, are in the range of 3-10 per 100,000 people in many parts of the world. Alcohol consumption is a very important risk factor for exocrine pancreatic insufficiency and is involved in nearly half of all cases. The main hypothesis regarding the role of chronic alcohol consumption in pancreatitis is that there must be additional environmental or genetic risk factors involved for ongoing damage to occur.