Question about Alchoholism

[skim]

I guess this board fit the question best if you consider alchohol a "drug".
If you're an alchoholic - now i don't mean that you just DRINK alot and often, i mean that you truly have developed a dependency to it - how long does it take to reverse the effects of alcholism?
I know that many programs put you into some place for 4 weeks to sober you up... but it's been 3 weeks now, i feel SO MUCH better, but i don't feel COMPLETELY back to normal. A bit of me is still dead inside and the part that's alive still aches for alchohol.
How long does it take to reverse the effects of alchohol dependency?
Thanks ...
Skim

 

[E-amf]

Hey,
I do consider alcohol a drug, one of the drugs I hate getting too much of. Can't stand being way too drunk, not remembering anything the next day and so on.
How long it takes for you to get over it, I have no idea, I never been "addicted" to alcohol. I can imagine it will take years (if not forever) to get over the phylogical addiction, like it does with so many other drugs.
Good luck keeping sober,
- Me

 

[HYDRO_CHRONIC]

if you really had an addiction to alcahol you will prob have that"ache" for alcahol the rest of your life
also why did you use alcahol so much
i mean was it to calm you down(anxiety)or anything like that?
,maybe you can find somthin to replace the alcahol,like maybe therapy would help,although its not good to replace a drug with another,there may be some medications to help

 

[PhreeX]

Moved to the darkside... the OtherDrugs attitude toward alcoholics is "Drink away you're alcoholic problems" ..