neral goal of all alcohol treatment programs. There are now two new Drugs available now called naltrexone and acamprosate that show promise for the Treatment of alcohol dependent patients (Bonn, D 1999 pg.213). They reduce the Patients urge to drink and the frequency and may improve abstinence. You also have theTwelve step program which is the most common used treatment now. Millions of Suffering alcoholics have achieved sobriety by following these twelve simple steps.1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol that our lives had becomeUnmanageable.2.Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.3.Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of god.4.Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.5.Admitted to god, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of Our wrongs.6.Were entirely ready to have god remove all these defects of character.7.Humbly asked him to remove our shortcomings.8.Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make Amends to them all.9.Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so Would injure them or others.10.Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptlyPage 5Admitted it.11.Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of his will for us and the power to carry that out.12.Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carryThis message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.“Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic”. The purpose of this statement is to inInform recovered alcoholics that they have the potential for relapse. Even one drink willLead to uncontrollable drinking. When an alcoholic returns to drinking after a period ofSobriety, the disease process and the level of drinking will manifest themselves at the Same level that they wo...
