Treatment and recovery are two different things. Back in the beginning, alcoholics being hospitalized was a common practice due to the fact that a chronic alcoholic trying to kick on their own is vulnerable to seizures and death. Treatment serves many purposes. It monitors the alcoholic medically to ensure a safe return to being alcohol-free.
While that is happening, they can be clinically assessed to see what the source of their resistance to recovery might be; if there is any.
Finally, it buys the alcoholic time to get some distance from their last drink. To clear their head so that you can talk to the person, not the booze. The true goal of treatment is for that conversation to be about considering the idea of not just stopping but staying stopped. To develop the skills that would allow them to walk the earth free men and women, no longer enslaved by alcohol or drugs. Those tools are found in recovery. The teachers are in the rooms of AA and the information or tools needed to succeed are in the Big Book. So, treatment and recovery are very different but when working together, they give an alcoholic the best chance he will ever get. I can’t understand knocking that.
Love, E
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