| The description of alcoholism varies depending on the | | | | avoiding him or her. All I am saying is that our method |
| person talking. To an average person on the street, | | | | to helping the addict only compounds the crisis instead |
| the term is synonymous with drinking of alcohol. Then | | | | of ameliorating it. |
| we may ask, does it mean everyone drinking alcohol is | | | | The finest method to helping an addict is to look at the |
| an alcohol addict? Without wasting our time, let's take | | | | cause of the crisis. In other words, we should look at |
| our description from Wikipedia. It says: alcoholism | | | | what led him or her into alcoholism in the first place. |
| typically constitutes any condition that results in the | | | | Many defense can be given. These include loss of job, |
| continued consumption of alcoholic beverages, despite | | | | loss of a loved one, marriage collapse, etc. In essence, |
| negative personal and social consequences. This | | | | we should first take a look at any of these causes, |
| description has a lot to say to us all. From this | | | | and then proffer solution. To Illustrate, if it's a loss of a |
| description, it can be presupposed that it is not | | | | job, we should make him or her (the addict) grasp that |
| everyone drinking alcohol that is literally an addict. What | | | | it is not the end of the world. We should tell him of |
| constitutes 'too much' is very personal. But we can | | | | hundreds of people out there that have really made it |
| decide that someone is an addict if he or she | | | | in life after losing their jobs. |
| continues drinking alcohol beverages no matter | | | | Tell him or her about Abraham Lincoln, the man that |
| negative personal and social consequences. | | | | failed so many times and yet still became the president |
| What many of us think about alcohol addict is not | | | | of the United States of America. Do you see that it will |
| factual in most cases. We tend to address the | | | | be mistaken depriving such an addict of your love just |
| aftermath of the difficulty. We don't address the cause | | | | because he has become an alcohol addict? What he |
| of the crisis. We blame the addict for going into it. We | | | | or she needs is not the alcohol treatment centre yet, it |
| warn him or her to enter an alcohol treatment centre | | | | is love and understanding that he or she needs. |
| and get assistance. We even go the extra length of | | | | |