What forms of treatment are available?

What forms of treatment are available?

Gail Priddy (Deputy Director) gives expert video advice on: Is there a cure for alcohol addiction?; Should I approach my GP?; How can my GP help me? and more...

There are a wide range of treatments from counselling that you can have on a weekly basis in order to help you look at using drinking diaries to help you cut down on your alcohol use, through to detoxification from alcohol either with a nurse coming into your home helping you with medications or actually going in somewhere for a week to do what we term 'drying out'. After that, there are options around rehabilitation, either within the community, attending day programs or within residential services. There are again medications that can help to help reduce cravings, which need to be done alongside other forms of therapy. Stuff like attending groups, relapse prevention work, a wide range of different things you can be involved in and, of course, not forgetting A.A.