Can an alcohol dependency be cured? Rehabilitation Center in Ghaziabad The traditional knowledge of groups such as 'Alcoholics Anonymous is that alcohol addiction can never be cured, but only planned.

The liver can renew. Imbalances to the blood and damage to Rehabilitation Center in Noida the muscle tissue can both be fixed. Long-term damage to the brain and central nervous system is less responsive to medical treatment. Rehabilitation Centre in Faridabad Even then though, no one would want to undervalue the benefits of proper medical care being given to even the most chronic of ailments.

Similarly, medical science can play a very eminent role in helping an alcohol-addicted person get through the period of detoxification which is the mandatory principal step towards bodily health.

A person who drinks alcoholic drinks regularly and excessively always has a history associated with their drinking problem. While in some cases it might just be a bad habit picked up during the party days of their youth, in a vast number of cases the drinking problem has arisen in response to an experience of dangerous personal tragedy, such as family breakdown, the death of a son or daughter, or some other unbearable crisis that has led the person to drink to numb the pain.

In the short term of course this can be a very positive way of dealing with an impossible situation. The problem occurs though when the drinker finds that he or she is no longer able to deal with pain or with life itself without the sedative effect of alcohol to soothe the nerves. This is the essence of the predicament faced by the addicted person, be they addicted to alcoholic substances, drugs, sex, work, or something else. They engage in addictive behaviorto lessen the pain.

Some reject the idea that there can be no final healing for the addict. Faithful healing is possible, many believe, though the process of healing may require an extensive working through of the historical factors that contributed to the disease.

If there is no healing for alcoholism, then the only possibility for health lies in controlling addictive behavior and channeling addictive tendencies towards more creative alternatives. A person who becomes addicted to 'working out' or even addicted to their work is naturally far healthier and generally easier to live with than someone who is addicted to alcoholic drinks or narcotics. As is commonly quipped, it is amazing how quickly AA members become addicted to AA meetings. Indeed, I know of one member who has not missed a meeting for a single day in almost 30 years!

Perhaps in the end it is unimportant whether or not an alcohol addiction can ever technically be 'cured' so long as there is a solution to the problem, and so long as sufficient weight is given to the non-genetic factors that lead to liquor dependency. For while the devastating effects of liquor dependency start to look depressingly similar from one alcohol-dependent person to the next, the history of the same ailment is always unique and needs to be taken seriously if there is to be any hope of recovery.