It's features are defined by the Mundial's health organization, as much as the American's Psychiatric Association trough DMS-IV-R. Manual of Statistic Diagnosis.

Having in view chemistry dependent's recovery in the premature phase, as much as in the critical period of the disease, he needs himself a treatment in which the person learns how to change it's attitudes and behaviours, being important for this result an strong therapeutic work.

This work's method lay in the self-help groups principle, emotive and rational therapy, transactional psychology, discussions and didactic movies. It has the purpose of make the individual obtain some consciousness about the inferences of his disease, also getting the responsibility of his recovery. Sharing his feelings and emotions he learns with other people how to identify and deal with them in a positive way.

Today we know that chemical dependency/alcoholism it's basically behaviour's disease, which involves psychic, physic, mental and spiritually the individual, independent from age, sex, race, social status, economic situation, religious faith or even cultural constitution. All of them, without exception, can be affected. It' a chronicle and progressive disease which can be fatal. However, we know that every addiction is not necessarily definitive and, since the diseased person honestly wants to recover, he will make it successfully.