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The following is an excerpt from www.healthrecovery.com 

Perhaps you've heard that excessive drinking is a character defect--- decadent behavior brought on by a lack of self-control. Proponents of this philosophy champion the psychological approach to treatment. The success rate for this approach is less than 20% after a one year review ... about as successful as no treatment at all.

Then there's Alcoholics Anonymous. A wonderful network of psychological support for alcoholics. Their success rate is unknown; however, we do know that
AA members represent less than 4% of the alcoholics in the USA. Regardless of how you feel about AA, one truth should be noted: physical symptoms caused by the biochemical disruption of alcohol abuse are not corrected by attending meetings or calling sponsors. Alcoholics who chose to do no more than attend AA meetings to maintain sobriety may indeed never take another drink, however, they will also suffer with many "physical" symptoms of a disrupted biochemistry: cravings, anxiety, depression, insomnia, mood swings, etc ... unless they take steps to correct the damage done to their bodies and brains. From a physical standpoint, AA's 12 step philosophy offers nothing but many painful years of "white knuckling' it".

What Research has Shown: Conventional "talk therapy" treatment alone yields far less effective results than treatment including biochemical repair. The consistent findings of hundreds of studies published over the last two decades yield abstinence-at-follow-up results no better than 25 - 30%.

But take heart!

The latest approach to treat alcoholism is based on a new scientific understanding of the disease as a disruption to the biochemistry. For 20 years Health Recovery Center has pioneered and carefully perfected a new approach to treatment known as biochemical restoration. Recovery due to this form of treatment has proven to be far more successful than anyone had imagined:
74% success rate in a recent 2-31/2 year follow-up study. In addition, symptoms associated with alcoholism: cravings, depression, anxiety, insomnia, fatigue, etc., are usually eliminated or greatly reduced.  

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