• This book is divided into three main parts.
• The first part helps you to make the decisions you will need to make in order to plan your route
through treatment for your alcohol problem.
• The second part consists of a number of chapters which describe the best route through treatment
for you (according to the research evidence), and tells you how to find all local help contacts (generated from your postcode). You should read only one of the chapters in Part II; you will know which oneto read after you have finished Part I, and read the Introduction to Part II.
• The third part tells you how to increase your chances of success to the absolute maximum.
• Whatever you do, do not read through the whole of Part II. The chapters in Part II are similar, but alsocontain vital differences which depend on things like whether or not you are physically addicted toalcohol, and whether you plan to continue to drink in the long term or to stop drinking forever. Part Iwill help you to make these decisions.

Giving up or controlling your drinking is hard work, and there's no magic cure. However, over the years, researchers have discovered which treatments work best. This doesn't mean that they will 100% definitely work for you.