describe alcoholism as a disease and steps to take for treatment?

Answer 1

Alcoholism is not caused by alcohol -- excessive drinking is just a SYMPTOM of the illness. In that regard, it is a "spiritual" (not a religious) illness, and not simply a biological problem.

Alcoholics use booze to shut off the tension, resentment, hurt and frustration they feel - and drinking actually does a pretty good job. The problem is that they keep using more excessively and frequently.

As they continue to rely on alcohol, they lose the ability (psychologically and chemically) to deal with life appropriately and so drinking becomes more and more necessary. Essentially, alcoholics are "self medicating" to deal with emotional difficulties.

Alcoholism is a terminal illness -- without help, the reliance on alcohol (and the effect it has on their health, lives, careers, homes, finances and relationships) will kill them.

Recovery is difficult to achieve, and many will never recover. Alcoholics Anonymous is one of the more effective programs. AA members meet together regularly and follow these steps to move toward recovery:

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol -- that our lives had become unmanageable.
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 as we understood Him.
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 promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, 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 carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Note that the "higher power" mentioned is not necessarily God in the traditional sense, but each person in AA must determine what that means to him/her. (It would even mean a person's own human conscience.) So, AA is a spiritual but not necessarily a religious organization.

Answer 2

alcoholism is described as a disease because of the damage it does to the entire body, and because it has a genetic component. There are many many different kinds of treatment, all involve giving up alcohol for life, which ever one works best for each individual is what's important.

Answer 3

No it relatively is not, it truly is a call. I drank for 20 years, went to AA for 5 years and persevered to drink till I found out that it grew to become into my option to proceed hurting myself and those around me or to end. i finished only approximately 20 years in the past and not in any respect regarded back. human beings use disease as a cop-out, there is not any drugs or examine to treatment it different than your own will. There are classes obtainable for everyone who needs to truly end. i in my opinion had to end AA to end ingesting, those human beings depressed me and it grew to become into like a revolving door for slipping drunks.