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Addiction & Recovery

Crucial phase
  • Increase in alcohol tolerance.
  • Surreptitious drinking.
  • Urgency of first drink.
  • Unable to discuss problem.
  • Drinking bolstered with excuses.
  • Persistent remorse.
  • Promises and resolutions fail.
  • Loss of other interests.
  • Work and money troubles.
  • Neglect of food.
  • Tremors and early morning drinks.
  • Occasional relief drinking.
  • Constant relief drinking commences.
  • Onset of memory blackouts increasing dependence on alcohol.
  • Feelings of guilt.
  • Memory blackouts increase.
  • Decrease of ability to stop drinking when others do so grandiose and aggressive behavior.
  • Efforts to control fail repeatedly.
  • Tries geographical escapes.
  • Family and friends avoided.
  • Unreasonable resentments.
  • Loss of ordinary willpower.
  • Decrease in alcohol tolerance.
Chronic phase
  • Physical deterioration.
  • Moral deterioration.
  • Drinking with inferiors.
  • Unable to initiate action vague spiritual desire.
  • Complete defeat.
  • Obsessive drinking continues in vicious circles.



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