| If you are reading this then you are concerned at the | | | | have to go through the whole drying out process |
| possibility and want to know wheat you can do. | | | | again. |
| Ask yourself these questions? | | | | Treatment for alcoholism is available, but is expensive, |
| How important is alcohol to your partner? | | | | because it means putting the alcoholic into an alcohol |
| How many drinks a day does your partner have? | | | | free residential treatment center. This will only work if |
| Does your partner drink alone? | | | | the patient wants to be well again. Your partner will |
| Does your partner drink in the mornings? | | | | never be free of the addiction, he or she will always |
| Is there less money left at the end of the week than | | | | be an alcoholic. The treatment center will teach your |
| there used to be? | | | | husband or wife how to live without alcohol. |
| The answers to these questions will help you to face | | | | Alcoholism treatment centers allow the alcoholic to live |
| up to the unpleasant fact that your husband or wife | | | | in a supportive and alcohol free environment while |
| has an incurable disease. | | | | giving up the drug. Psychological advice is available and |
| You cannot do anything unless your partner also | | | | group therapy sessions help many recovering |
| realizes that he or she is an alcohol addict. | | | | alcoholics. |
| Alcohol is addictive. You will find lots of people who will | | | | Alcoholics Anonymous are one group that holds |
| argue with this statement but alcohol fits all the | | | | support meetings for alcoholics. AA has groups in |
| definitions of a harmful and addictive drug; | | | | most towns and cities in most countries and many |
| 1. You need to take more and more of it to get the | | | | recovering alcoholics find the group sessions to be an |
| same effect | | | | essential part of STAYING a recovered alcoholic. |
| 2. Your body becomes physically dependent on | | | | Given the toxic nature of alcohol, if the substance was |
| alcohol. | | | | discovered today, it would never be licensed as a drug |
| 3. People die from alcohol abuse | | | | or food. It is only the entrenched nature of the alcohol |
| An alcoholic is someone who has become physically | | | | industry and the fact that so many jobs depend on it |
| dependent on alcohol. Alcoholism is a permanent | | | | that make it politically unacceptable to ban alcohol. |
| disease. It cannot be cured. An ex-alcoholic is simply | | | | Does this sound similar to the excuses made by opium |
| one who has not had alcohol for a long time. If the | | | | producing countries? |
| ex-alcoholic has one drink they are hooked again and | | | | |