| You don't want to end up in an alcohol treatment | | | | the country. Although this guarantees nothing. |
| center. They have good intentions – the orderlies | | | | The treatment for alcoholism cannot be taken with |
| are all polite and charming – but really, it's little better | | | | levity. Quitting has got to be sudden, abrupt and total. |
| than a prison. You get to see them as wardens or | | | | Anything short of this can only result in a relapse that |
| orderlies in a loony bin. They watch your every move, | | | | could send you back to rehab, ruining all the hard work |
| and check on you when they think you are going | | | | they did the first time. Certainly this is not something |
| wrong. Not very pleasant, right? But you'd bet it's a lot | | | | you want to be looking forward to. |
| better than waking up in the gutters after a night's spell | | | | Alcoholism refers to any condition which causes you |
| of drunken stupor. | | | | to consume any form of alcohol to excess. There is |
| Getting to talk about the problems you have with the | | | | no need to get all flamboyant about a complex |
| bottle is very helpful, but mostly when you are not | | | | definition. Once you're hooked, you're hooked and the |
| saying it to a half filled bottle that you are consuming. | | | | best way out is through rehab. Or can you think of |
| Getting to listen to others share similar experiences | | | | another? |
| helps you realize that you are not alone in your | | | | Alcohol treatment centers are often located in open |
| struggle. The way to cure is clearer from then on. | | | | regions where there is a wide expanse of land for |
| Group therapy is a common practice in alcohol | | | | green fields to give an illusion of peace and serenity. In |
| treatment centers. It helps you to confront your | | | | addition there are usually high walls that are meant |
| problems square and fair, while learning that other also | | | | equally to detract trespassers and keep patients inside. |
| have similar problems. You all get the chance to speak, | | | | But most importantly, on the rehab facility, you'd never |
| and no one laughs at anyone else. Why would they? | | | | find any liquor. |
| They would not be in there themselves if everything | | | | There have been a few recorded deaths in alcohol |
| was so peachy, anyway. | | | | treatment facilities due to the direct effects of |
| Even after a spell in rehab, some ex-inmates still | | | | withdrawal from the substance. This has caused such |
| relapse. Usually the causes are the same ones that | | | | homes to exercise more caution in attending to their |
| got them there in the first place. What a person like | | | | patients. Although it is advised that the best way to |
| that needs might be a total change of environment, like | | | | quit is to do it suddenly and totally, such incidences |
| another rehab, for instance… or like another part of | | | | challenge this theory. |