Rehabilitation of Alcoholics
After proper treatment more than 60% of the alcoholics maintain abstinence for more than one year. Many of them maintain lifetime abstinence. Since there is no proof of superiority of one treatment schedule than the other it is best to keep management of alcoholics as simple as possible.
The first step in rehabilitation of alcoholics is the attempt to help alcoholics to maintain a high level of motivation for abstinence. This includes education about alcoholism, instructing family and friends not to protect the alcoholic from problems caused by alcohol.
The second step is to help the alcoholic to readjust t life without alcohol & establish a functional lifestyle. For this counseling, vocational rehabilitation and self help groups like Alcoholics Anonymous (US) are available for help.
Categories: Addiction Tags: Alcoholics Anonymous, Counselling
