1- Doctors and Hospitals.
2- Alcoholics Anonymous, and in-residence
institutions.
3- Divine Faith Healing.
4- Relatives and friends.
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In my experience as a Medical Doctor practicing in New York there are four ways to take care of it:
1- Doctors and
Hospitals.
2- Alcoholics Anonymous, and in-residence institutions.
3- Divine Faith Healing.
4- Relatives and friends.
As a Medical Doctor I have helped to quit alcohol to dozens of patients that keep dry after 5 years.
All of them came to my Office not to quit alcohol, but suffering from the liver, stomach... and my approach, in general was triple:
1- I gave them a stern warning: If you keep on drinking, alcohol is going to bring you to the grave, and soon!... your children will be left without a father or a mother... and you are 35 or 40?... whatever...
2- If you want to quit,
do it now and totally: Do not drink a drop of alcohol for the next week, not even a
regular cough syrup that usually contains small amounts of alcohol... nothing!...
It will be better for you to take rat poison than a sip of beer or
wine... because the rat poison testes bad and you will spit it out, bet if you take a sip
of wine, the whole bottle will go after it!...
3- When the next week
they came back without testing a drop of alcohol, I explained them that it's got to be
that way for the whole life... and all of them were advised to get in contact with
Alcoholics Anonymous.
2- Alcoholics Anonymous, and in-residence institutions:
I am convinced Alcoholics Anonymous is the best place to take care of alcoholics for their lifetime.
When there is a health problem, of course, doctors, psychiatrists, or hospitals, are the place to go... but in, general, most of doctors and hospitals do not take care of alcoholism itself, until there is a serious health damage... and institutions like Alcoholics Anonymous are the ones doing a great job to stop alcoholism in the first phases of it, when there is not yet a serious health problem, and the best job in maintaining the patient alcohol-free for his or her lifetime.
Whenever I can, I
always send a patient or a friend with alcohol problems to:
Alcoholics Anonymous:
Nearest place to you: U.S.-Canada...International
Al-Anon/Alateen...Nearest Place to You:
- Al-Anon:
To help families and friends of alcoholics, whose
lives have been affected by someone else's drinking.
- Alateen
is our recovery program for young people, whose
lives have been affected by someone else's drinking.
... Or to institutions that take care of the alcoholic in-residence situations, living in the institution for several weeks, like St. Joseph's Rehabilitation Center at Saranac Lake, NY -- Mountainside, in Canaan, Connecticut, where they charge $75 per day -- Betty Ford Center in Indianapolis, IN -- Casa de Amigas in Phoenix, AZ -- Bannock Youth Foundation in Pocatello, ID -- Freedom Foundation-Active in India, -- Bronx Addiction Treatment Center -- Manhattan Addiction Treatment Center... and many more!... see Information in New York State (with excellent state, national, and world information).
The Recovery Network
QuitNet Rational Recovery National Families in Action Drug Free Resource Net
National Association of Children
of Alcoholics (NACoA)
Real
stories of recovery, treatment, and prevention. From real people. Share yours too.
I have seen people quitting alcohol after doing a Christian Retreat: Charismatic Retreat, Cursillo in Christianity... and quitting it for good, for more than ten years. Look at Amazing Genuine Testimonies of Quitting Alcohol
The divine healing for alcoholics follows the same guideline as for general Divine Healing of the Sick in the Bible as shown in the Book of Sirach 38:9-11 and James 5:14-16 (The book of Sirach or Ecclesiasticus is often not included in the Protestant Bibles).
1- Do not get impatient, trust in the Lord... always trust in God, in Jesus (Sirach 38:9).
BE ENCOURAGED: Neither
be disturbed by what you see around you, nor by your own thoughts. Don't look at your own
limitations, abilities, disabilities, or qualifications. The Lord desires your surrendered
will. Give Him ALL your burdens, great and small. Give Him the opportunity to create
something beautiful out of your frustrations, your disappointments, your grief, your
troubles. Allow Him to heal, to restore, to deliver, to raise you up. Let Him change your
weakness into strength. Become a VICTOR in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Grab the VICTORY in Jesus Christ.
2- Pray to the Lord, and He shall heal you! (Sirach 38:9)... that's a great promise!... and the first prayer should be of thanks-giving, giving thanks for your alcohol habit!... because we have to give thanks to God for every thing and in all circumstances (Eph.5:20, 1Thes.5:16-18). .
3- Call the elders of the Church, and let them pray over you, and anoint you with oil in the name of the Lord... and the prayer of faith will make you well, and will rise you up!... and will stop your habit!... that's a big promise of Jam.5:15, alleluia!... Make a Christian Retreat: Carismatic, Cursillo in Christianity...
4- Make a good Confession of Sins: "Turn
away from sin and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all offence." (Sirach
38:10)... "Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so
that you may be healed." (Jam.5:16, Jn.20:23)...
Confess all your sins, including alcohol, and most specially the sins
of rancor, resentment, hatred, grudge... because if we don't forgive others, we can't even
pray the Our Father where we ask God to forgive us the way we forgive others (Mat.6:12-15,
Jn.20:23).
Confess to God your sin, surrender your will to Him. Do what you can do
and what you cannot do, let Him do it. Simple like that... If you mean
business, He will do what is needed!!!.
5- Offer the Holy Mass, "Give a sweet sacrifice, and a memorial of fine flour, and make a fat offering" (Sirach 38:11)... the memorial we have in Christianity is the Holy Mass, to offer the Father the Lamb of God, Jesus crucified and risen, praise the Lord!.
6- Call the Physician, (Sirach 38:11-15)... it is
usually the first thing we do, but it should be the last!... and in the quotation of James
5 it is not even mentioned!... by the time you go to the Doctor or AA you may be already
healed!, praise the Lord!.
But most of the times the habit will not be stopped by a miracle, this
will be the extra-ordinary... the ordinary way, the usual way, it will be healed by God,
but using yourself, your determination and will power, and the good care and compassion of
a doctor, a nurse, Alcoholic Anonymous or the other institutions already mentioned, of
relatives, friends, neighbors...
No one can overcome a habit who doesn't really want to do so. You must seriously want to change before you will be motivated to take the steps to freedom.
We may be limited, but He can and will do the IMPOSSIBLE, if
we surrender our ALL to Him. Selling out to Jesus Christ, is the way !
God does not need our abilities or
qualifications to do things, He needs our surrendered will. He is quite capable of working
everything out in our lives, if we allow Him to. Thank you Jesus !
Run the "race", that you
may win. 1 Cor. 9:24
With God All things are possible. Matt. 19:26
We are more than conquerors through Him, who loved us. Romans 8:37
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. Phil.4: 13
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I have seen quitting drugs and alcohol the spouse or children of people who made the Consecration to Virgin Mary
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Relatives, Friends, Neighbors:
Fundamentally, alcoholism is a health problem — a physical and
emotional disease — rather than a question of too little willpower or of moral
weakness. Just as there is no point blaming the victim of diabetes for a lack of willpower
in becoming ill, it is useless to charge the problem drinker with responsibility for the
illness...
... the alcoholic must learn to stay away from alcohol completely in
order to lead a normal life.
Often an alcoholic is the last person to know he is an alcoholic...or the last person to admit it!... Relatives, friends, neighbors, can do a great job in pointing it out to him, and in getting him in contact with Alcoholics Anonymous or any other institution, or for divine faith healing...
A frequent component of the disease is the alcoholic's belief that drinking is necessary to cope with life. In an alcoholic's confused mind, the need to drink may literally seem like a matter of life or death.
What can you do?: Knowing that more than one and a half million problem drinkers have attained sobriety in Alcoholics Anonymous, you may be impatient to "do something" for the alcoholic in your life. You may want to explain that alcoholism is an illness and urge the alcoholic to read A.A. literature and head straight for the nearest A.A. meeting.
You are badly needed by your spouse, or child, or parent, or friend!...
... The alcoholic may be rebelling outwardly against the idea of A.A., or any other institution, but may actually be close to accepting your encouragement and support and making a decision to join A.A. or any other institution, or to make a Christian Retreat, or to pray the way the bible suggests, or at least listen to what various recovered alcoholics have to say about the different ways that helped them...