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What number of alcoholics can actually quit drinking and live a productive life?
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Most of them IF: they get proper treatment. Recovery rates of alcoholics who enter treatment, in a number of large studies, approaches 60%. This may take more than one treatment episode, and there may be relapses, but about two thirds of alcoholic patients will attain long-term sobriety WITH TREATMENT. However, fewer than 20% (10% in some populations) ever seek or receive treatment.
Answered 5/28/2014
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