Alcohol Addiction Treatment - An Ultimate Guide to Overcome Your Addiction

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Alcohol Addiction Treatment

• An Ultimate Guide to Overcome Your Addiction

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Inside This Presentation

• Psychological Conditions Depicting Alcohol
  Addiction
• Alcohol Addiction Treatment in 3 steps
• Alcohol Addiction Treatment through Group
  Therapies
• Alcohol Addiction and Binge Drinking
• Social Life and Alcohol Addiction Treatment

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Psychological Conditions Depicting Alcohol
Addiction

• Adverse effects of alcohol addiction
• Alcohol addiction always bears adverse effects on
  the drinker. It not only leads to pathetic
  medical conditions but degrades respect in the
  society drastically. The person has to deal with
  lots of abuse and ignorance. It even affects his
  family, colleagues and friends adversely. The
  alcohol addict is even outcast. The poor medical
  conditions lead to gastrointestinal damage of
  the system. Apart from this liver, pancreas,
  heart, blood and nervous system are severely
  affected too. Alcoholic dementia, neuropathy,
  epilepsy and sexual dysfunction are some other
  conditions caused by alcohol addiction.

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Alcohol Addiction Treatment in 3 steps

• The alcohol treatment program consists of
  following steps of treatment-
• Intervention
• Detoxification
• Rehabilitation

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• Intervention
• There are two categories in this. In the first
  condition the person is not dependant on alcohol
  but is a problem drinker. He drinks in moderation
  and can successfully deal with his drinking
  issues. If he does not drink in control, he
  should try to stay away from it as alcohol
  addiction affects his family, education, health
  and raises many other similar issues.
• Treatment through counseling for the addict and
  the family member is very much necessary in this
  case.

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• Detoxification Detoxification is the alcohol
  treatment program that gets completed in 4-7
  days. However the number of packs he drinks in a
  day decides the likelihood of alcohol withdrawal
  symptoms after drinking is stopped.
• Rehabilitation In order to maintain alcohol
  abstinence, support for the problem drinker is
  provided after detoxification alcoholism
  treatment phase is accomplished. The recovery
  support program comprises of counseling, nursing
  and medical care. Furthermore making the addict
  aware about the symptoms of alcoholism on various
  body parts is also included in the program.

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Alcohol Addiction Treatment through Group
Therapies

• Peer Group Discussion
• Such group discussion programs are an integral
  part of evidence based alcohol addiction therapy
  programs. The specialists dealing in addiction
  programs conduct meetings wherein they discuss
  all sorts of issues and people from different
  walks of life who have been struggling with the
  issue severely. They also discuss various coping
  strategies and the experience addicts have
  employed.
• Family Therapy
• It is mandatory that the family members stay in
  touch with only those family relatives who
  provide positive family dynamics and assist in
  making the complete recoveries. Rehabilitation
  programs necessarily make addicts parents and
  his siblings part of such program. Such agendas
  also make addict analyze as in how their
  uncontrollable behavior hurts his family members
  and their lives.
• Community Support
• There are some of the alcoholics who need
  additional therapy in addition to complete
  alcohol addiction programs. Most of such
  communities have exceptional support groups to
  assist in making these people sober. Apart from
  all these, the most supporting feature of such
  groups is to assist these people in forming
  accountability partnerships in addition to
  lifelong friendship with similar mind people.

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Alcohol Addiction and Binge Drinking

• What is Binge Drinking?
• For teenagers, alcohol is not less than a drug
  that devastates their rest of the life.
  Statistics of U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental
  Health Services Administration reveal that in
  America alone, 4,750 kids below 15 years of age
  take their first drink. Instead of knowing that
  alcohol consumption is illegal and understanding
  its severe consequences, they do it secretively.
  Experiments have explicitly stated that such
  teenagers under 15 are 5 times more likely to
  fall prey of alcohol consumption in contrast to
  adults. Another drastic outcome of tasting
  alcohol at this age is that they consume far more
  alcohol than adults over shorter period of time.
  This stage is referred as Binge Drinking.

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• Underage drinking Campaign Understanding the
  severe impact of binge drinking and alcohol
  addiction, SAMHSA developed public awareness in
  regards to health education. SAMHSA looks for
  bright future of the future generation and
  engages parents, caregivers, schools and
  communities so that underage drinking can be
  prevented. The parents should start talking about
  the dangers of alcohol with kids as soon as they
  are 9 years old. The primary objective of the
  alcohol campaign is-
• -Developing awareness among parents in regards
  to prevalence and risks of teenage drinking.
• -Developing awareness, knowledge and confidence
  in parents and equipping them to deal with such
  situations with optimistic state.
• -Assisting parents in taking actions so that
  underage drinking can be prevented.

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Social Life and Alcohol Addiction Treatment

• Addicts should attend Inpatient Rehabilitation
  Programs
• Shun the drinking Society
• Avoiding alcohol in Workplace
• The most painful part- Cutting the alcoholic
  friends
• Alcoholics should plan strategies to control such
  temptations whenever they are trapped in any
  situations.

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