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Book Detail
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Take Control of Your Drinking...And You May Not Need to Quit
Levy, Michael S.
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Category: Substance Abuse Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
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Synopsis:
Alcohol problems are as varied as the people who struggle with them. In a career spent counseling people who want to change their drinking habits, Michael S. Levy has found that the routes to behavioral change vary as well: abstinence is the successful route for many people, while others can moderate their drinking on their own or with professional help. In this book, Levy helps people take control of their alcohol problems by teaching them how to think about and address their drinking habits. Beginning with a set of self-assessments that reveal whether the reader's use of alcohol is problematic, Levy explains the causes of problem drinking and why it is so difficult for people to change. As he notes, however, many people are able to overcome their drinking problems without any formal help; he stresses the importance of personal commitment in this effort and provides tools for fighting helplessness and the fear of failure. Levy also offers guidelines so readers can decide whether to try to moderate their drinking or to choose abstinence. He provides a contract for moderate drinking in which readers decide what they will drink, how often and how much they will drink, and the situations they need to avoid. He offers advice for coping with slip-ups and knowing when moderation is not achievable. For those who are unable to moderate their drinking, he provides comprehensive and compassionate guidelines and resources for abstaining.
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