Treatments Of Alcoholism

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or therapist believes is
the best method for recovery. Some treatments focus on the physical addiction
of alcoholism. Others emphasize the alcoholic's social or psychological
cravings.
Alcoholics Anonymous and Rational Recovery are two support groups that help
alcoholics recover. Other alcoholics benefit from one-on-one therapy with
counselors, who may help patients understand drinking and change their behavior.
Finally for some alcoholics, the most effective treatments are those that
combine medical treatment with counselling. Such treatments enable the
alcoholic to more easily break the physical addiction to alcohol as they
evaluate their social and psychological reasons for drinking. Two of these
treatments are: Nutritional Therapy and Network Therapy.

Nutritional Therapy

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done by excess ingestion of alcohol can be
undone with psychological methods alone?" (Ewing, 1978) The Health Recovery
Center is devo ted to the restoration of bodies, minds and spirits that have
been ravaged by alcohol.
Such restoration begins the moment a new patient walks through the door.
After the staff physician takes a thorough medical history and performs the
initial physical exam, the patient is hooked up to an IV solution, out of which
drips high doses of ascorbic acid (vitamin C, a powerful detoxifier), calcium,
magnesium, B vitamins (which help eliminate withdrawal symptoms), evening
primrose oil (a natural anticonvulsant) and a full spectrum of amino acids
including ...

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