What does that process involve? The thing is, I really dont think she's an alcoholic. I think that she tends to drink only a couple of times a week, its just that she gets in so much of a mess when she does. I have heard from a friend of hers, and think so myself, that she is addicted to codeine tablets - but I know that her doctor keeps giving her prescriptions for them (as well as antidepressants / sleeping tablets etc) and I really dont know why she needs the codeine - she has nothing physical wrong with her. And she only takes the anti depressants when she thinks she needs to and that gets her in a mess as well. She has been taking anidepressants for 15 years and things are continuing to get worse. The thing is, she is a very intelligent woman, a trained counsellor and has worked alongside the people who are now supposed to be helping her. She has convinced herself, and succeeded in convincing everyone else, that everything which has happened is my nan's fault and that she is hard done by. She cannot see the truth in anything!