Understanding the changes in the brain chemicals and operative parts of the brain when alcohol becomes an addiction is essential to creating a healing environment for this disease. Addiction occurs when chemicals in the brain interfere with communication between the three basic parts of the brain. These chemicals make it extraordinarily difficult for the person who has developed the disease of alcoholism to make different decisions despite the consequences.

Once facets of our society start working together in more productive ways the disease of alcoholism can be treated more effectively. Families, friends, employers, law enforcement workers, and health care professionals alike become understandably exasperated by alcoholics making erroneous judgments to drink/and or drink and drive. Yet the disease can be controlled, if treated more like high blood pressure, diabetes, epilepsy etc.

Health care professionals can:

1. Refer to treatment

2. Treat alcoholics non-judgmentally when they remember the chemical imbalance that causes the disease. Judges, courts and law enforcement professionals can join the very successful drug courts around the country to decrease the recidivism rate turning around the lives of people afflicted with the disease of alcoholism

3. Referral to home care or public health nurse for home visits.

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