Drug treatment
By browsing online websites about drug treatment centers, I was surprised to see how many governmental-based addiction treatment centers there were. If the addicted person really wanted to take a step forward and to start getting rid of his/her addiction, the possiblities there are endless. Some of the websites define alcoholism as a "brain disease", meaning that the person most likely would not be able to cope with the situation on his/her own. All the websites that I surveyed recommend drug treatment for the alcohol addiction; alcohol treatment centers exist that integrate all kinds of theraphy in order to help the person recover from the addiction. Some of the websites do state that some people are, in fact, able to quit drinking on their own, and the chance that they do not drink in the year following the one when they quit is only, unfortunately, four percent. Again, what comes to mind is that the level of addiction obviously plays a role in this discussion. Maybe a person who is able to quit on his/her own was only mildly addicted, or needed to drink less alcohol per day/week in order to satisfy the addiction. However, the statistics show that people who go through the alcohol rehabilitation programs, have a fifty percent chance of recovering and not drinking for the following year and on. Here, again, the percent of recovery is only fifty, when I would, personally, expect a percentage higher than that. Thus, it probably means that the person really needs to want to recover in order for the treatment process to be complete. If the person is not really eager to take a stand on the issue, then the person is likely to relapse, even after the extensive treatment at the alcohol treatment centers. I remember that a person come to give a lecture at my school once, and he was a Medical Doctor, in the Military, and a recovered alcoholic. What stunned me is the rancor with which he spoke about his past addiction. Obviously, he was very eager to get over it, since he was there, talking to us, addiction-free. But, at the same time, he seemed to deeply regret the fact that he went through the period of addiction.