24 November 2016

The answers to these questions seem evident: to keep your health, to relieve your family from sufferings. One may even use something commonplace: “Be like the whole world”, “Live a normal life”. But whether it’s a weighty argument for an alcohol addict we don’t know. Our discourse can be compared with the following conclusions justifying relatively lower malignancy compared to other form of chemical addiction.

Stage of  treatment may last from two weeks to several  months, depending upon the patient's condition.  It is interesting to note that almost without exception  near the close of this period the patient's  mental state is characterized by great optimism, the  inevitable good resolutions, and expressions of a  firm conviction that the cure is successful. It is  at this point that relatives are so often and illadvisedly  persuaded to remove the patient from  the hospital, with the almost certain result of his  starting to drink again.