A22. This involves setting goals as regards stopping drinking and enlisting professional help. This help includes therapy, self-help groups, counselling, psychotherapy, detox, acupuncture or a stay in a residential rehab centre.
Your GP can advise about these as can a local drug/alcohol dependency team.
As long as the drinker admits that he/she has a problem then the process of treating the addiction can begin.
Some people prefer to adopt a self-help approach and do it by themselves but many people opt for professional help and a support network.
Find what works for you.
It can help to set a goal and then break this down into smaller sub-goals. Keep a ‘drinking’ journal in which you note down what you drink and when and how you felt at that time. This can be a useful aid to cutting down your drinking.
There is more information on this in our treating a drug addiction section.