Health care by Sweetie Friend

How to Stop Using Alcohol

For the alcoholic, quitting drinking is extremely difficult and something that takes time, patience, and dedication.  Recovery is not a task that can be entered into lightly or without reservation.  When quitting drinking, many approaches are available to help the alcoholic assist in their endeavor.  The most well known approach is Alcoholics Anonymous (AA).  In addition to AA, there are other approaches to recovery that can be used and each person needs to find the ideal path for them.  The best approach will be one that is comfortable and employs the techniques that are best suited for each individual alcoholic. 

It is important that the treatments that are used fulfill the social, emotional, and spiritual needs of the person.  When these needs are met, regardless of the approach that is used, the three-year cure rate is 50%-90% for many of the new alternative approaches.  Some