Many common questions regarding hypnosis frequently center around it’s effectiveness on compulsions as multi-faceted and complex as substance addiction and abuse.
Alcohol addiction is a particularly troublesome, because like any other addictive substance, the body becomes totally dependent on something that is ultimately toxic to it when imbibed in mass quantities, and whereas the short term effects for drunkenness can be embarrassing and even gruesome, such as nausea, vomiting, even alcohol poisoning, the long term effects are lethal.