| The first day is never the worst in an alcohol | | | | You cannot walk the precipice with alcohol. It is either |
| treatment center. That day comes a bit later when | | | | you are in or you are out. A lot of folks lay claim on |
| the withdrawal symptoms begin to set in. That is | | | | being able to hold their liquor, but it's only a question |
| when the orderlies really go to work on you. Most | | | | of time before they blow it and have rehab included |
| patients break then, but if you pull through, the only | | | | in their rap sheets. With the booze, there is no half |
| way back is deliberate sabotage on your own self. | | | | and half. |
| When someone becomes a drunk, treating the | | | | You might want to agree with me that dudes who |
| problem should be the same as treating a regular | | | | have once been diagnosed with and treated for |
| disease - a chronic regular disease. You admit then | | | | alcoholism cannot in good sense return to regular |
| into hospital, prescribe medication, and make sure | | | | drinking. It's much too dangerous to the work that |
| that they take it. Only this time, the hospital is a | | | | has been done already in rehab. The best and only |
| rehab facility, or an alcohol treatment center, and the | | | | way is for them to abstain totally. |
| medication is... abstinence. | | | | Hypnotism is one option that people are reluctant to |
| You could become an alcoholic simply because your | | | | explore for curing alcoholism. However, a few alcohol |
| dad or mum was one. It ain't fair, but it is so. So if | | | | treatment centers press on with the theory and |
| you want to break the trend, cut it off in your | | | | there are reported cases of it working. It might still |
| system before you genetically pass it to the next | | | | take a while though, before the practice gains |
| generation also. Quit drinking, enroll in rehab. | | | | widespread acceptance. |
| Most alcohol treatment centers insist that you sever | | | | Alcohol treatment centers are places of relative |
| all ties with the outside world while you are in. they | | | | peace to the crazy environment around. This not to |
| argue that any distraction might hamper your healing | | | | say that there aren't rough moments. When an 'in' |
| process. Makes you sort of wonder if you would not | | | | patient is undergoing their 'withdrawal period', it could |
| have been better of in prison; at least those guys | | | | get really rough. But once this phase is over, |
| get to move around and watch TV. Well, you're | | | | everything is relatively serene. Want a holiday? |
| dead wrong. | | | | |