Summary of some of the Sources

(Brownell, Mommy Doesn't Drink Here Anymore)

In this book author tells her about the how she addicted to alcohol and what problems was created to her after addiction.

(Richard, Counseling the Person Beyond the Alcohol Problem)

In this book authors tells about the about the problem which a drinker has to face, in general view according to him people shifted to alcohol because of felling difficulties in maintain the relationship etc.

(Prentiss,Chris, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure)

As the name shows this books relates to the treatment of alcoholism, how to treat the people who are addicted to alcoholism.

(Al-Anon Family Groups. Courage to Be Me- Living With Alcoholism)

This book can help in gaining knowledge about how to avoid alcohols, its problem, and its effects, with some real stories of people who were addicted to this and how they get rid of that. Alcoholism

The definition of this disease, which would satisfy and physicians, and astrologers have not yet worked out. There are different opinions about that for some characteristic features can be called human alcoholic. Previously, the oscillations on the subject were not. If people sometimes get drunk, it was called a drunk, and there were no distinguishing features that make it better or worse. For our purposes, we restrict ourselves to the conventional wisdom that an alcoholic - a person who regularly drinks himself to such a degree that is not capable of normal activity and the risk of being unpleasant incident (Alcoholism, 1997, Pp.77-96)

(Alcoholism - mental disorder caused by prolonged alcohol poisoning organism and, consequently, toxic lesions of the brain and internal organs. It is characterized by the dependence of the state of alcohol consumption, the desire to facilitate his repeated receptions, loss of self-control, alcohol personality changes)Alcoholism as a disease, not always receive the most effective treatment as there is no consensus on key issues. First, there is no consensus on what should be the objectives and / or basic needs should be covered or solve a level of alcoholic patients and there is no consensus on which devices would be the most appropriate care to ensure a valid support reliable (Williams 2000, Pp.178-189)

With this scientific and social landscape, and the stimulation and increased consumption of alcoholic beverages at a social level, it is understandable that the failures increase in alcoholism treatment for people suffering from this addiction and public health consequences for the alcohol-related diseases. So then, in many cases, the absence of alcoholism treatments effective for the abuse of alcohol is due to misconceptions about what is alcohol addiction or alcoholism. Yet for many people (including health professionals) alcoholism is a matter of personal choice, that is, the addict it would be because they want to drink much alcohol, or is a matter of lack of character, so that the alcoholics stop drinking because they have no willpower. Behind these ideas is the belief that leaving alcohol dependence is entirely in the hands (at will) of the addicted person (Alcohol, 1993).

But the reality is ...