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Get them to AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) and NA (Narcotics Anonymous). They know more about helping addicts than well-meaning friends, desperate family, or school-trained professionals do. Alcoholics will only get help when they are ready. You cannot force an alcoholic to get rehabilitated.
Here are some suggestions:
Do- Try to remain calm, unemotional and factually honest about how the person's drinking abuse hurts you and others.
- Discuss the problem with someone you trust - a friend, clergy person, social worker, or someone who has experienced alcohol abuse or Alcoholism either personally or as a family member.
- Try to maintain a healthy, normal atmosphere in the home and try to include the alcoholic or problem drinker in family life.
- Encourage new interests and participate in leisure activities that the problem drinker enjoys and encourage the person to see old friends in non-drinking situations.
- Be patient and live one day at a time. Changing behavior is difficult, as dieters and those attempting to stop smoking know. Setbacks and relapses are to be expected. Try to accept them with calm understanding and don't become discouraged.
- Punish, threaten, bribe, preach, or try to be a martyr. Avoid emotional appeals that may only increase the problem drinker's feelings of guilt and compulsion to drink.
- Cover up or make excuses for an alcoholic or shield a person from the consequences of alcohol abuse.
- Take over the responsibilities of an abuser of alcohol.
- Hide or dump bottles of alcohol, or shelter a problem drinker from situations where alcohol is present.
- Argue with a person who is intoxicated.
- Drink with an alcohol abuser.
- Accept guilt for the behavior of a problem drinker.
Remember that changing behavior, especially becoming an abstainer, is very difficult. Be understanding and patient, but don't accept any responsibility or guilt for the behavior of another person. You are responsible only for your own behavior.
To help an addict you should give support to him/her take them to some good rehab center for their proper treatment and care.
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