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To many people, the holiday season is little more than another reason to justify getting drunk. Especially New Year’s. The drinking and driving statistics make you want to stay home. And there will be plenty of people in detox. But many of those people had a drinking problem well before the holidays, and will continue to have one afterwards.

How many of them will get the alcohol addiction help they need? How many friends and relatives will think that since the person has gone to detox, they won’t need help after that?

Some people don’t realize that drinking is an addiction. They think that if the person can just sober up, they’ll be fine. That they’ll be able to handle their drinking problem from there.

That’s just not the case. Quitting drinking isn’t easy. Alcohol is being used to cope with some problem in the person’s life and, until that problem is resolved, they’re still going to crave it and will probably drink it.

Detox isn’t enough. They need addiction help services to get down to the bottom of the problem and do something about it. So, do yourself, and them, a favor. After they’re out of detox, get them the addiction help they need so that trip to detox will be their last.