My father is addicted to alcohol how can I stop him?
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Thats so good that your dad wants the help! My father too is an alchoholic, but he can't even admit it. There are severeal, you can look it up in your phonebook.
Speaking as a recovering alcholic, unless he really WANTS
help, you can't really do anything.
If he does rehab is only the first step. He will need a support group. This can be AA (I am a member), or even a church group.
As a daughter of an alcoholic mother you need to step back and realise there may not be anything you can to stop him. There are treatment centers if you have insurance and partial programs if he's willing (I can help you find one in his area)
You might also want to consider going to Al Anon which is like AA for children of alcoholics. Quite often we find ourselves becoming co-dependent to our alcholic parents trying to help them too much
I use to be a drug counselor. It is totally up to him. If you want to really help him, attend counseling and learn what to do and what not to do. Many families enable the alcoholic and do not know it.
It is called co-dependency. If you really want to help him, educate yourself.
The short answer.You can't. He has to stop himself. He has to want to change for himself, not for you, or anyone else. He's gotta make the effort to go to the meetings, to want to change. And frankly until that happens, there is nothing that you can do. I went through this with my ex. I took her to meetings, took her to a mental hospital when she tried to kill herself with alcohol and pills, I did everything humanly possible and she didn't stop until she wanted it bad enough for herself.
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