Alcohol Rehabilitation
Alcohol rehabilitation is the process where you stop
drinking alcohol. The process can involve doing it straight
(cold turkey) to being helped by prescribed substitute drugs
which don't have the same effect on your brain.
Many alcohol rehabilitation programs include attempts to
change the patient's behavior. Patients are especially
encouraged (or required) to stay clear of all friends who still
use drugs or alcohol.
Twelve-step programs encourage alkys (alkies) or addicts to
not just stop using alcohol or other drugs, but also to examine
and change habits related to their addictions.
Alcohol rehabilitation is sometimes part of the criminal
justice system. People convicted of DUI offenses may be
sentenced to rehabilitation instead of prison, and are
sometimes required to go to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings by
the judge.
However, going to meetings is one thing... and wanting to
get sober at any cost is another thing altogether. You have to
be willing to do whatever your sponsors tell you it takes. And
if you're only going because you've been forced to attend, your
chances of being helped are much lower.
But it's certainly not impossible.
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