Your treatment will be tailored to suit you and will depend on how much you drink and any associated physical or mental health problems that you may have. Your doctor will assess your level of alcohol dependence. If you have severe alcohol dependence, especially if there is evidence of physical damage to your internal organs, e. g your liver, then your doctor is likely to advise you to cut down on alcohol with the aim of stopping drinking completely. This is called abstinence.
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