Treatments for Alcoholism

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Traditional Treatment
Traditional alcoholism treatment, the most
traditional method of treating alcoholism, is a 2
part procedure.  First, you have to get the
alcoholic sobered up.  Second, you have to teach
the alcoholic how to live a sober life without
resorting to drinking.  These are obviously two
separate actions.
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1. Sober Up
The traditional method for sobering someone up is
to put them in a treatment center with a medical
detox unit.  This is pretty important and will
not likely change much, because detoxing from
alcohol is pretty dangerous and in fact it can be
fatal.  So there will probably always be a need
for medically supervised alcohol detox.  The only
way to sober up a drunk is very carefully. 
Proper medical staff and monitoring is always
going to be important.
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2. How to Live Sober
Teaching them how to live a sober life? Well
there is plenty of room for improvement there,
and obviously there are some alternatives out
there.  The traditional route has always been the
12 step program of AA, which is the most popular
program of recovery for alcoholism by far.
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Problems with AA
AA works for some but there are a few problems
with it 1) AA works for some people, but about
80 percent leave the program within a year.  2)
People with social anxiety might never gain
exposure to AA. 3) Some alcoholics respond better
to other methods of treatment.
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Other Treatment Ideas
There are other ideas for treatment out there,
including, but not limited to 1) Medical
treatments, such as medications. 2) Individual
counseling, working one on one with a
therapist. 3) Group therapy outside of 12 step
programs. 4) Religious based solutions. 5)
Holistic approaches that focus on overall health
and long term growth.
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Best Idea
There is also the potential to combine other
treatments for alcoholics into one overall
strategy.  The best idea is to try different
things in your recovery and keep the stuff that
works for you.  There is more than one path to
sobriety and the truth is that some alcoholics
will have a different path than others.
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