Beware! There is a current television advertisement looking for participants to use prescriptions to replace alcoholic drinking. Of course, there is no need to drink when you substitute one drug for another. A pill form for the liquid drug of alcohol still continues the disease without the actual use of alcohol. The body can not differentiate between a liquid or a dry drug.

If a person uses both, it even magnifies the problem as one pill and one drink is six times the effect on the body. Appropriate treatment is available without substituting one addiction for another. Replacing one drug with another does not make a person clear-headed, rational, or free of toxic substances. A person with a predisposition from hereditary genes is actually continuing the addiction in this disease process by replacing prescription drugs.

The public has been mislead to think drugs will "fix" everything. Addiction to drugs and/or alcohol is a chronic, progressive disease that over time leads to death or insanity without intervention, according to the American Medical Association. Removing all addictions, not changing them is the solution.

Often, stuffing and suppressing the symptoms through prescription drugs may deter healing, creating more problems in time. This means the patient continues returning to the doctor and buying more pills without restored health and actually having more problems. Thousands of alcoholics have returned to drinking from prescribed tablets, anesthetics from surgery, and misdiagnoses, because of misinformation in the medical community.

Perpetuating patients and drug purchase is a major concern in medicine and the drug companies. Withholding information may preclude recovery and wellness. Restricted coverage by medical insurance also encourages this strategy. Supporting or including alternative methods threatens their existence.

The truth is drug companies are trying to sell more drugs to replace potential lost revenues from the sale of the liquid drug of liquor companies. "The market potential is big. The NIAAA [National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism] estimates about 18 million Americans are dependent on or abuse alcohol, with more than two million adults seeking treatment each year." Mail Tribune Newspaper, September 14, 2005

It is time to eradicate the misinformation and encourage a solution that restores those in the pain of Alcoholism/prescription addiction to health. Frequently, addiction information is not included in training for doctors. Appropriate counselors helping those in successful recovery understand the process necessary to be free of all chemicals in the body for total clarity and health. In addition, for over seventy- five years the 12-step program of Alcoholics Anonymous has worked for millions with out any price tag.

Dr. George Zerr, a psychiatrist now retired, told Marilyn Redmond, "You understand addiction better than most doctors". As a sober person for twenty-three years, she is now an international consultant, speaker, writer, and counselor in Holistic Health. Marilyn is completing a book that sets the record straight on alcoholism and other diseases and illnesses. In seminars, she shares her experience counseling alcoholics and freeing clients of their medical concerns providing real solutions for healthy recoveries that are drug free. "Being drug free brings health, happiness, and prosperity to your life" Marilyn said.