The description of alcoholism varies depending on the person talking. To an average person on the street, the term is tantamount with drinking of alcohol. Then we may ask, does it mean everyone drinking alcohol is an alcohol addict? Without wasting our time, let's take our description from Wikipedia. It says: alcoholism typically constitutes any condition that results in the continued consumption of alcoholic beverages, despite negative personal and social consequences. This description has a lot to say to us all. From this description, it can be presupposed that it is not everyone drinking alcohol that is literally an addict. What constitutes ?too much? is very one-sided. But we can resolve that someone is an addict if he or she continues drinking alcohol beverages no matter negative personal and social consequences.



What many of us think about alcohol addict is not valid in most cases. We tend to address the aftermath of the problem. We don't address the cause of the drawback. We blame the addict for going into it. We recommend him or her to enter an alcohol treatment centre and get assistance. We even go the extra length of avoiding him or her. All I am saying is that our process to helping the addict only compounds the drawback instead of ameliorating it.

The finest process to helping an addict is to look at the cause of the drawback. In other words, we should look at what led him or her into alcoholism in the first place. Many explanations can be adduced. These include loss of job, loss of a loved one, marriage collapse, etc. In essence, we should first take a look at any of these causes, and then proffer answer. As an example, if it's a loss of a job, we should make him or her (the addict) fathom that it is not the end of the world. We should tell him of hundreds of people out there that have really made it in life after losing their jobs. Tell him or her about Abraham Lincoln, the man that failed so many times and yet still became the president of the United States of America. Do you see that it will be fallacious depriving such an addict of your love just because he has become an alcohol addict? What he or she needs is not the alcohol treatment centre yet, it is love and understanding that he or she needs.