What are the chances of "recovery" if you attend Alcoholics Anonymous,

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32. You said it best. They have to want to quit, otherwise, nothing is going to work. And there is no 'magic pill' or

such that would work either. It would be nice, if one could take a pill and automatically stop the drinking. When one drinks, they actually change their body's metabolism in such a way that one's body craves the alcohol, so to speak. I too, have had alcoholics in the family and it's not an easy road nor an easy fix. You can't arrest them, or anything like that either.

For those of you w/ alcoholics in your lives, hang on there, and you keep yourself well too, for you need to be healthy too and well too. Don't give up. Unfortunately, in my case, the only way the 3 alcoholics in my family 'fixed' their problems was that they died, unfortunately. Two directly because of the drinking we think, and an accident by the 3rd one, which led to their eventual death. It's hard but for those of us that are healthy and still here, we must continue on w/ friends and family, keep traditions and things going.