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Alcohol addiction, or alcohol dependency, is defined as having any three of the following characteristics:

• Tolerance for alcohol, meaning that drinking increasing levels of alcohol are needed over time to produce the same effect
• Alcohol withdrawal symptoms
• Ingesting a larger degree of alcohol than intended, and for a longer time period than intended
• Carrying a strong desire to decrease alcohol consumption, or the inability to decrease its consumption despite the desire
• Spending a large amount of time pursuing alcohol (trying to obtain it)
• Continuing to use alcohol even though you recognize there are deleterious physical, mental/emotional (psychological) and social consequences being caused by using it

In short, alcohol addiction means that a person continues to use alcohol despite clearly recognizing its harmful effects on themselves and their situation, and the person cannot break its grip on their habitual drinking.

While alcohol detoxification and alcohol rehab programs can help break the cycle of alcohol addiction, it's also useful to bolster their efforts with a nutritional approach to the problem that can cut down on the symptoms of alcohol cravings. This is the importance of glutamine and other nutritional supplements, including changing the diet to rid it of sugars and hi-glycemic foods that quickly turn into sugars inside the body.

An approach in mind training techniques embodied in meditation (which teaches freedom from thoughts), positive affirmations or NLP (which teaches how to re-program or re-align thoughts in a more helpful fashion, such as through subliminal affirmations) can help with alcohol addiction.

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The question is how do we get people who are dying, who do not believe they are dying, who fight the slightest inkling they are dying, to believe that they are dying and accept help which will save their lives? This question has always lived at the center of the tragic conundrum that is the alcoholic and other drug addicted person.