Can You ever Cure an Addiction to Alcohol?

A usual question which is asked everywhere that will we be able to cure the alcoholism? Health clinics and experts are fast to provide a clear-cut answer to the question. But according to the 'Alcoholics Anonymous' alcohol addiction can never be cured, but we can only control it. The liver is able to renew itself by producing more of the new cells. Damaged blood cells and muscle tissues can also be repaired. Brain and central nervous system is less sensitive to medical treatment but can be cured.

Similarly, to help an alcohol-addicted person medical science is playing a very great and important role in get leave the period of detoxification that are considered to be the compulsory steps towards health. Use of sedatives and pain killers during the treatment can send the person to some danger due to side effects. Alcohol withdrawal would be treated without the help of medicines as it will give efficient results of some sort. Medical science treats the indications of alcoholic, alcohol withdrawal. The question comes again is whether the disease itself can ever be treated.

'Alcoholics Anonymous' (hereafter 'AA'), 'Narcotics Anonymous', 'Gamblers Anonymous', etc. are showing that alcoholism is that illness which can never be cured, but only cured. Addictive quality problem affects the genetics of patient. A drinker/alcoholic has a history of problems associated with their drinking problem. So we can easily say one problem leads to another. In some of the cases this is just a bad habit originating sometimes only but in many of the cases the drinking problem has given bad results due to long term use.