| A woman who loves and understands you is better | | | | Anything short of this can only result in a relapse that |
| than a glass of liquor any day. Get drunk with her love | | | | could send you back to rehab, ruining all the hard work |
| and you might be saved from the deprecating | | | | they did the first time. Certainly this is not something |
| experience of staring at the cold walls on the inside of | | | | you want to be looking forward to. |
| a room in an alcohol treatment center. | | | | An alcohol treatment center will teach you ton accept |
| By the time someone thinks that you need to get | | | | responsibility for your drinking problems. Ironically, you |
| yourself into an alcohol treatment center, the condition | | | | are also taught that you have no control over it. In this |
| you suffer from is really becoming chronic. Genetically | | | | way, you are gradually guided to realize that you need |
| and neurologically, you become enslaved to the bottle, | | | | to keep your distance from the bottle. |
| and you don't know it. Someone will have to fight it | | | | Liquor is the one thing that I common to all alcohol |
| with you to win you back. And this just what they do | | | | treatment centers - the absence of it. Some centers |
| in the facility. | | | | deprive you of all personal belongings for the duration |
| There is something about rehab - people never quite | | | | of your stay; others only remove all means of |
| come out the same. By the time you are out, you are | | | | communication. But none of them will allow you to bring |
| either cured or worse. Something about the attendants | | | | any alcoholic beverages unto the grounds. |
| in there, or perhaps your fellow inmates, changes you. | | | | There is no easy way to tell a regular drinker from |
| This is some food for thought. | | | | someone who only drinks occasionally, especially once |
| A lot of people who become alcoholics inherit it from a | | | | both parties are drunk, because they look the same. |
| parent. How such a habit would transcend generations | | | | Basing the decision on their confessions might not be a |
| is sure baffling, but it is so. Then there are others who | | | | good idea too. To really know, you might have to |
| are aided into the habit by outside influences. Rehab | | | | watch them both closely over a period of time. An |
| might be the only way they can turn that around. | | | | alcohol treatment center might provide such an |
| The treatment for alcoholism cannot be taken with | | | | opportunity. |
| levity. Quitting has got to be sudden, abrupt and total. | | | | |