Eh. That doesn’t really work though. An alcoholic (any addict) has to _want_ to change. The individual must make the choice. Nothing else will work long term. Often enough, addicts die due to some effect of the addiction, or commit suicide when they cannot live with some effect. I find that people often make poor judgement when confronting addicts. Every addict is an individual first, and while the route of their addiction may look similar to others it is never identical. Some addicts respond well to interventions. The intervention can convince some of the need to change. For other addicts, this only further entrenches the addiction due to some emotional response. This is especially true, in my experience, when the family was the source of the abuse that caused the depression that ultimately drove the addict to some substance for relief. The “cut off” rather than the intervention would (in some cases) be truly more humane. Some families operate on different philosophies and they would argue that to be of service to family no matter the cost is first. While laudable, I would disagree.
Source: I come from a family with many addicts: two uncles, sister, brother, father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, cousin, great uncle, great aunt, three aunts, myself.
