Don't help: A guide to working with the alcoholic

by Ronald L. Rogers, Chandler Scott McMillin

Don't Help. What kind of message is that to give to someone dealing with an alcoholic? For families and friends this means don't help if you think "controlled" drinking or threats will solve the problem; do help by showing victims the disease's effects on themselves and other people. For health-care professionals, this means don't help if you see treatment as a psychological or moral problem; do help if you see alcoholism as a chronic, progressive, inherited disease. Don't Help provides enormous help to everyone professionally or personally concerned with the disease of alcoholism.

Paperback

First published May 1, 1989

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was excellent. It explains in detail why it is so hard for an alcoholic to stop drinking and what it's like being one. The basic premise I gathered is that alcoholism is a physiological addiction and, as most of us should know, Alcoholics Anonymous is the only treatment that is proven to work over long periods of time.