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How can you determine if you have an addiction to alcohol?
To anyone who is not struggling with alcoholism, such a question might seem bizarre because they think the answer should be obvious. This can really be a tricky situation for some people, especially if you are still in the phase of drinking where you [...]

If you believe that you have some sort of issue with alcohol then your first course of action is to properly diagnose your problem. What is the true nature of your problem and what is the extent of it? Is your problem really with drinking too much or does your problem really get nasty when [...]

The success rates are dismal and depressing when it comes to beating addiction. Based on most available data, very few will manage to achieve continuous, long-term sobriety. While possible, the chances are not very good. Here is how you can achieve success with sober living.
1. The theory of the zero tolerance policy
It is [...]

For the true alcoholic, the idea that they can just stop drinking is no light matter. Because there are a bunch of different ways to get sober out there, which techniques prove to be the best and which ones don’t work so well?
1) Willpower - This is essentially the same as not using any [...]

Knowing how to help an alcoholic is a difficult thing to do. Perhaps the best we can do is offer a system of recovery that works for them and encourage them to find out what that system is.
One of the big issues with our usual recovery programs is that they generally try to get alcoholics [...]

So you want to know how to help an alcoholic without enabling them?
We really want to help the alcoholic, but in many cases we end up sabotaging their efforts because we are not allowing them to come towards a natural change in their life. How can a person know when they are acting appropriately [...]