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This article is to present the rehabilitation programs that the author has developed for alcoholics and other drug abusers during the past 5 years. The first program, a group therapy, aimed at motivating alcoholic inpatients to stop drinking, in a psychiatric hospital in April, 1993. Some of these patients, when discharged from the hospital, joined a counselling program given by the author and organized a self-help group, Alcoholic Anonymous, upon the support of the author. The group therapy for their family members began in June, 1994. While conducting the therapy, I found,.out that their children were involved in such antisocial behaviors as drug abuse, violence, and running away from home. I therefore started a group therapy for juvenile delinquents under probation in November, 1994. Having recognized the importance of preventing alcohol addiction in the community, a phone counselling program was initiated in January, 1996. In the same year, a group therapy started for those drunken drivers, who were under probation and were commanded to join a rehabilitation program. In the process of managing these programs, I strongly felt the need for training the staff working for alcoholics and other drug abusers, so that the staff can provide counselling services in their working places. Hence, a program was launched in 1998 to educate nurses, telephone counsellor, probation officers. This program is also given to alcoholics in recovery stage and their family members who want to help others in similar situations to theirs. The development of the programs mentioned previously reflect personal, familial and community needs for rehabilitation targetting alcohol and other drug abuse. The programs serve as models or bases for dealing with substance abuse that those practitoners and researchers in the area might adopt.
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