LifeWatch Employee Assistance Program is not a cure-all of life's problems. But it is a reasonable place to start with personal problems that are overtaking any area of your life and beginning to become unmanageable. Alcoholism is a progressive illness that affects an estimated 18 million Americans. The disease of alcoholism is simply an addiction to the drug alcohol or ethanol and can be successfully treated. There has been a 75 percent recovery rate in programs such as ours.
Alcoholism is called a family disease because it adversely affects everyone around the alcoholic.
They suffer from the cycle of problems generated by the drinking as well as from the frustration of not knowing what to do about it. Understanding the problem can often lead to positive solutions, but what is required first is recognition that a problem exists. The same drive to be part of, better than, or at least comfortable with, other segments of society often leads to dependence on illicit drugs, such as marijuana, cocaine, or heroin. In either case, professional help is needed to break the vicious cycle of drug use and the toll that it takes on everyone around the addict. The addict or alcoholic is simply a person whose drinking or using creates problems in his or her life and continues to drink or use.