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The first step in knowing how to deal with husband, wife, or other person we love who has alcoholism is understanding the facts about alcohol abuse and the reasons alcoholic people resist help.

Five short snapshots on key intervention concepts. You CAN help motivate someone towards recovery.

“But what if…?” Coming to terms with the reality of lifelong abstinence is one of the difficult tasks of early recovery.

Having a judge or a parole officer holding the big stick on them may be enough to get them into treatment, but it’s usually not enough motivation to get them beyond the minimum of compliance.

It isn’t so much that we can’t address these barriers, it’s that all too often, we lack the tools.

We mobilize legions to deal with them: Judges, law enforcement, parole officers, counselors, teachers, case managers, but their problems persist.

Those first few days in detox can be interesting!

The way you feel changes over time — and that’s why people keep going to meetings.

What can a newbie reasonably expect from participation in Alanon et al? Support, although perhaps of a type you don’t initially recognize, since it doesn’t involve much sympathy.

Some clients are so cooperative they’ll do just about anything… except stop drinking.