In the presence of relatives or other persons well versed in patient reveal features of its behavior (rudeness, indifference to family, liberty, malice, prone to outbursts). Figuring out how alcohol abuse affects on family relationships, work, family and work conflicts. In elucidating these circumstances a doctor in any case it must make stand against a patient, you need to be involved in the fate of the patient and his family.
It is very important to determine whether a patient weakening of sexual function. In some cases, the weakening of sexual function caused by drunkenness may cause the patient to accept treatment and continue to completely abstain from alcohol.
A doctor discovers a patient when he first asked about alcoholism, its earlier treatment, when and where they are conducted, and what methods had been treated and how long to abstain from alcohol after each treatment, what causes the resumption of alcohol abuse.
The last question that should be clarified when and how much alcohol the patient drank the last time and what he complained of health currently.