Recent reports have promoted controlled drinking as a more appealing prospect than total abstinence.
Alcoholism is a terrible disorder that not only robs the sufferer but their family as well. Families often leave as they cannot cope. Patients often lose their health and job. They get depression, anxiety and brain disease from alcohol abuse. The current government guidelines is for controlled drinking, that is one standard drink per 24 hours. Any more than that is an alcohol related problem drinking.
One of the major problems facing a person who is addicted to alcohol is total abstinence. it seems harsh and the pull of the alcohol makes it seem doomed to failure. Most people addicted to alcohol can tell you however that one drink is all it takes to fall into old habits again. One drink and the alcohol starts overtaking sensible thinking about the effects of too much alcohol. One drink, controlled drinking, rarely works for this reason and is actually harder to do than total abstinence.
Controlled drinking seems easier. You can continue to drink with your friends and go to all the same places. Total abstinence usually means new places to go out to and new friends who don't drink. It is however a continual pull towards drinking if you still go to the same places and drink with the same people where alcohol is freely available.
It is also easier to continue fooling yourself about how much you have been drinking if you do not change your environment. There will always be someone who will say, come on one more cant harm or you have been so good, you deserve a drink for that.
Therefore I suggest total abstinence is a safer and easier way to attempt to control alcohol abuse than controlled drinking. Ultimately you have to choose for yourself which way you want to take control Either way is better than not choosing at all.
Alcoholism is a terrible disorder that not only robs the sufferer but their family as well. Families often leave as they cannot cope. Patients often lose their health and job. They get depression, anxiety and brain disease from alcohol abuse. The current government guidelines is for controlled drinking, that is one standard drink per 24 hours. Any more than that is an alcohol related problem drinking.
One of the major problems facing a person who is addicted to alcohol is total abstinence. it seems harsh and the pull of the alcohol makes it seem doomed to failure. Most people addicted to alcohol can tell you however that one drink is all it takes to fall into old habits again. One drink and the alcohol starts overtaking sensible thinking about the effects of too much alcohol. One drink, controlled drinking, rarely works for this reason and is actually harder to do than total abstinence.
Controlled drinking seems easier. You can continue to drink with your friends and go to all the same places. Total abstinence usually means new places to go out to and new friends who don't drink. It is however a continual pull towards drinking if you still go to the same places and drink with the same people where alcohol is freely available.
It is also easier to continue fooling yourself about how much you have been drinking if you do not change your environment. There will always be someone who will say, come on one more cant harm or you have been so good, you deserve a drink for that.
Therefore I suggest total abstinence is a safer and easier way to attempt to control alcohol abuse than controlled drinking. Ultimately you have to choose for yourself which way you want to take control Either way is better than not choosing at all.
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