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Gulping mugs and mugs of alcohol is one of the most famous past times of the British. The county side is full of inns and bars serving alcohol to the never ending customer’s line. Cities to be a hot bed for alcohol with a plethora of pubs and bars serving liquor to the folks. Also long chilling winters aggravate drinking patterns of the people. due to all the above underlying factors alcoholism is a serious problem in united kingdom and have reached epidemic proportions .there has been 1.2m violent incidents related to alcohol,360,000 incidents of domestic violence and increased anti social behavior and fear of crime. The government of United States has formulated several plans to decrease the clutches of alcoholism from the English society. The government of United Kingdom has formulated a four point strategy to cure alcoholism
• Improved training of staff to increase awareness of likely signs of alcohol misuse.
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Piloting schemes to find out whether earlier identification and treatment of
those with alcohol problems can improve health and lead to longer-term savings.
• Carrying out a national audit of the demand for and provision of alcohol
treatment services, to identify any gaps between demand and
provision.
• Better help for the most vulnerable – such as homeless people, drug addicts, the
mentally ill and young people. They often have multiple problems and need clear
pathways for treatment from a variety of sources.
Besides these there are also local units of international agencies like alcohol anonymous which are basically groups of alcohol patients who go through group sessions together where they share common experiences with alcohol ant try to fight the problem together. Alcohol anonymous believes in the treatment of alcoholism through spiritual awakening .so it can also be termed a religious cult in its own sense. They had formulated a twelve step theory for alcohol treatment. The Steps are designed to help the alcoholic achieve a spiritual, emotional and mental state conducive to lasting sobriety.
The famous twelve step program as defined by the alcohol anonymous group
is
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. We’re entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs
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