Is Your Partner an Alcoholic?

If you are reading this then you are concerned at the
possibility and want to know wheat you can do.

Ask yourself these questions?

How important is alcohol to your partner?
How many drinks a day does your partner have?
Does your partner drink alone?
Does your partner drink in the mornings?
Is there less money left at the end of the week than there used
to be?

The answers to these questions will help you to face up to the
unpleasant fact that your husband or wife has an incurable
disease.

You cannot do anything unless your partner also realizes that
he or she is an alcohol addict.

Alcohol is addictive. You will find lots of people who will
argue with this statement but alcohol fits all the definitions
of a harmful and addictive drug;

1. You need to take more and more of it to get the same effect
2. Your body becomes physically dependent on alcohol.
3. People die from alcohol abuse

An alcoholic is someone who has become physically dependent on
alcohol. Alcoholism is a permanent disease. It cannot be cured.
An ex-alcoholic is simply one who has not had alcohol for a long
time. If the ex-alcoholic has one drink they are hooked again
and have to go through the whole drying out process again.

Treatment for alcoholism is available, but is expensive,
because it means putting the alcoholic into an alcohol free
residential treatment center. This will only work if the
patient wants to be well again. Your partner will never be free
of the addiction, he or she will always be an alcoholic. The
treatment center will teach your husband or wife how to live
without alcohol.

Alcoholism treatment centers allow the alcoholic to live in a
supportive and alcohol free environment while giving up the
drug. Psychological advice is available and group therapy
sessions help many recovering alcoholics.

Alcoholics Anonymous are one group that holds support meetings
for alcoholics. AA has groups in most towns and cities in most
countries and many recovering alcoholics find the group
sessions to be an essential part of STAYING a recovered
alcoholic.

Given the toxic nature of alcohol, if the substance was
discovered today, it would never be licensed as a drug or food.
It is only the entrenched nature of the alcohol industry and the
fact that so many jobs depend on it that make it politically
unacceptable to ban alcohol. Does this sound similar to the
excuses made by opium producing countries?


About The Author: Ciara McGrath is a full time mother to four
teenage daughters. For more health related information check
out http://www.alcoholism-treatment-now.info or
http://www.drugs-rehabilitation.info.info