Alcohol abuse is a coping mechanism. People who deal with stress properly who do not have overwhelming emotional symptoms and have a healthy self worth and esteem don’t abuse alcohol even if they have the gene for alcoholism as there is no need. Unless the underlying stress issues are indentified and corrected then alcohol will always be turned to in times of crisis. Here at Palladium we provide a set of common sense coping mechanisms that can be used to break this cycle permanently, this combined with the reprocessing of old events to deal with grief and regret and the re-education of how to measure self esteem and worth properly make a combination that is more than the sum of it’s parts and incredibly effective.