Research shows that alcohol treatment programmes work. Experts in the field of alcohol addiction treatment spend many years training in order to provide the services and help that problem drinkers need to beat their illness, including:
* a period (typically 2 weeks) of medically supervised detoxification to clear all alcohol from the system;
* medication to alleviate the symptoms of withdrawal from alcohol and to start repairing the damage that drinking has done;
* counselling and therapy to help sufferers to confront their illness and learn to successfully cope with it in future.
