Execs Drinking to Excess

“The treatment of choice should be based on severity.  As with any addiction, what must be addressed other than how to move towards sobriety, is what each individual struggling with a drinking problem is escaping from,” he [Dr. April] says.  “The addiction has served a purpose, albeit a destructive one that needs to change.  The purpose has been to avoid that which the individual feels she cannot tolerate or deal with.”