How To Help An Alcoholic Or Addict

I got to thinking about this the other day. I think I noticed that someone came to the website asking that question (How To Help An Alcoholic Or Addict). So I thought about it for a few days and figured I needed to write something specifically addressing the question.

I also saw an ad for a TV show about interventions. I don’t like interventions. I can’t stand reality TV. So I want to offer an alternative to media styled intervention. The first thing I suggest if you want to help an alcoholic, a drug addict, or someone you know who is just having problems is watch the videos available here.

The videos to watch are:

• Nutrition&Behavior
• Nutrition&ADHD
• Food Matters
• 21st Century Biology
• A World Without Cancer
• Toxic Chemicals and Genetics
• Codex Info

Once you educate yourself on the connection between nutrition and behavior you’ll be ready to offer help when the time is right.

When You Can Help

When things are going badly. Not going badly for us, or you, but going badly for the addict. When things are going badly for the addict is when they are most responsive to the offer of help. They need to want something from you. Get informed, get a plan and be ready to pounce.

The traditional avenue in the U.S. is to get the addict into treatment.

The main objective is not necessarily treatment – but detox.

To me treatment mainly equals time. My opinion is that there is no treatment in state sponsored treatment. Treatment only provides time and opportunity. It’s referred to as treatment because someone started referring to it as treatment.

If we think of treatment as a cure then treatment is not treatment at all. Most people in the treatment business will tell you there is no cure for addiction. Let’s find out what “cures”, if any, are available. We’ll need to get a few things sorted out first. Lets see if we can make a list of some possible components of addiction.

• If you watched the movie you saw that a large number of alcoholics and drug addicts were hypoglycemic – treatable? Yes.
• If you watched the movie on ADD you found that there are nutritionally based treatments for this problem too.

I don’t want to go over every possible treatable variable – get a piece of paper and a pencil and work the pause button as you watch.

Back to when you can help. The best time is when the addicted person needs something from you. If asked, you can make a deal with them. If you are in the position to threaten them into doing what you want – then anytime will do.

What’s the deal we’re going to make – What will we get them to do? Will we say, “Don’t come back to work until you finish treatment”? If you watched the videos you’ll understand that there are specific things you’ll want to try.

You’ll know the addict needs to detox – the question is where and how? That’s a really good question. I wish I had a really good answer. I have put most of the helpful links I’ve come across on the Addiction Help Holistic Directory. You should be able to find a listing for an Orthomolecular Detox program there. Or information and links to find someone to ask. I have no idea where in the world you aret so I can’t tell you where to go. Just remember “Orthomolecular Detox”.

Are there other detox programs and facilities? Yeah, and you’ll be wasting time. I’m not saying that people can’t detox there and get through the worst of the physical withdrawal. But they’ll still have the same blood chemistry as before and the same nutritional imbalances that make it impossible to think straight or feel good. That’s what I mean by a waste of time. Get the treatment started from day one.

I would figure that once you find the right nutritional detox facility they can take care of the follow up and you’ll have some form of treatment plan to continue on with.

So the way it works is first you have to know as much as possible about what can be done. How it can be done. Where it can be done. When the addict asks for help you say – I’ll think about it if – OK, as soon as you do this – and so on. Never give one single thing without getting what you want done – first.

Also – if you go here www.dgswilson.com-Bookstore there is something called Gene Smart listed on the right side of the page. They say they do what I suggest needs to be done – or at least part of it – the testing your blood part. I haven’t used them but it’s one of the few places I’ve found (online) that seems to be offering it. In fact I think they are listed here on the blog – look around.