additional stressors to the alcoholic’s state of mind that precludes seeking help. Co-workers, spouses, and other family members often experience many tensions and heightened emotional distress caused by the negative consequences of living and working with a person with AUD64 leading to a challenging complex environment for the AUD individual. As many studies have noted, therapeutic programs treating married AUD individuals should involve the family/spouse64, and taking into account the difficulty for married and employed individuals to leave for rehabilitation for long periods of time, which has led to the development of programs such as Family Systems Therapy (FST)65 and Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT)66.
