Alcoholism Recovery & Treatment

Question by ladeecapulet: What is day-day life really like at an alcohol treatment center? Info needed as part of my studies. Thank you?

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Answer by Shelty K
Intense therapy!
For a person with alcoholism it may be excruciating. They are trying to recover from addiction and the cravings are still there. So ther is a lot of discomfort for them.
Generally their daily routine is much the same as yours in the sense of food intakes and daily tasks of housework and self image care.
They have to attend meetings and undertake to examine their reasons for taking alcohol in such excess.

The steps of recovery for an alcoholic are available from any local AA center and are spiritual in their approach rather than religious. This spiritual approach is not for all and many leave the program as a result. But amazingly these same people at a later date will return and often embrace the program with greater fervor in order to get their life back in some semblance of order.

Some may receive medication to help lessen the effects of withdrawal, some may undergo other methods. But the aim is always towards avoidance of alcohol in the future.

Looking after alcoholics is much easier than doing the same for those who are addicted to drugs. I have looked after both and so I can say this from experience. Alcoholics have mostlyu experienced some quality of life, employment, marriage, children and some social standing within the community before they vrashed. So there is an age bracket here where some things have been experiened as a normal part of growing up.

With those addicted to drugs, many of them have not achieved much in life and are too young to remember the good things, or times prior to addiction. This group has a greater problem plugging back into a society that they wer once an integral and participatinf part of. Some may be exceptions like pop stars and film stars, but their life has often been a sort of fantasy trip rather than a reality in quality life.

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Question by <3: It’s part of French culture to drink wine often, why isn’t this considered alcoholism? ?
It’s part of French culture to drink wine often, why isn’t this considered alcoholism?
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Answer by Natasha
Probably because when someone is an alcoholic, they can’t hold their liquor well, and they do irresponsible things while drinking or to obtain the alcohol. It affects their personal lives negatively, regarding families, work, responsibility, etc. Wine is something that many European cultures value and incorporate into their daily lives, so it doesn’t affect them the same way it does here.

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Question by PHILLIP S: What part does religion play in alcoholism?
Does religion cause alcoholism?

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Answer by Sassafrass
No

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I don’t love alcohol….frankly, I drink because I moved to Chicago from Southern California and don’t have a connection. However, my job is so boring and undemanding that most days I walk two blocks to the drug store, buy a fifth of cheap rum or bourbon with a 2L or two of Diet Coke or Pepsi, and mix the two under my desk.
I have no friends, no girlfriend (partially because I don’t like how I look, the girls I was able to attract, and have little interest in traditional intercourse)….hence alcohol is the only “company” I have except for weed, which I prefer but cannot get without making a 300-mile round trip.
I can’t say I’m totally dependent on alcohol just yet, but I still find that my existence is improved and not impaired by knowing that I can get buzzed pretty easily.
Just to add…I doubt counseling or AA is for me. I am an atheist, I have seen many counselors in my life, and derive no comfort from knowing that some “higher power” loves me no matter what.

The book seven weeks to sobriety saved my life, has anyone else found this book and had success?