There are medications that can help with cravings for alcohol that can be prescribed as part of an overall treatment program. There are also treatment programs and 12-step groups, such as AA, that can help you understand the disease -- of which cravings is one of the characteristics. The other 3 characteristics of alcoholism are tolerance, physical dependence and loss of control. You may want to view this website produced by HBO, NIAAA, NIDA and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation -- it has a lot of great information that can help you better understand addiction (of which alcoholism is one) -- www.hbo.com/addiction.
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