Does Treatment Work?  

There are many different kinds of treatment for people with alcohol problems. <br><br>Every possible effort is made to ensure that each individual receives the kind of treatment most likely to produce a positive outcome for him or her. No one way of treating someone has been demonstrated to be superior to all others. <BR><BR>Some people learn how to control their alcohol use while others need to completely change their life-style and abstain from alcohol to avoid the persistence of their problems. <BR><BR>The overall goal of treatment is to reduce or eliminate the harms associated with alcohol or drug use and to achieve physical, psychological, spiritual and family health and wellbeing. <BR><BR>Most treatment services are based on wisdom, tradition, clinical experience, and plausibility. All are valuable, indeed necessary, parts of any treatment effort.

There are many different kinds of treatment for people with alcohol problems.

Every possible effort is made to ensure that each individual receives the kind of treatment most likely to produce a positive outcome for him or her. No one way of treating someone has been demonstrated to be superior to all others.

Some people learn how to control their alcohol use while others need to completely change their life-style and abstain from alcohol to avoid the persistence of their problems.

The overall goal of treatment is to reduce or eliminate the harms associated with alcohol or drug use and to achieve physical, psychological, spiritual and family health and wellbeing.

Most treatment services are based on wisdom, tradition, clinical experience, and plausibility. All are valuable, indeed necessary, parts of any treatment effort.