> You can very quickly kill a dependent alcoholic without special treatments. Going cold turkey has a risk of sudden death. My girlfriend became profoundly psy

> You can very quickly kill a dependent alcoholic without special treatments. Going cold turkey has a risk of sudden death. My girlfriend became profoundly psychotic when she ran out of alcohol. She was taken to the hospital, who didn't care that she had been drinking, and didn't include on their 'petition for court-ordered evaluation' that their initial blood work found cocaine metabolites. The psychiatrists at the county's behavioral health center also didn't care that their patient told them she'd been drinking heavily. Modern Medicine does some things quite well. Weight loss and addiction are two areas where conventional medicine is inadequate.