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Alcohol addicts can let self have been treated from today (Thursday) virtually. A new, online detoxification method consists of chatsessies with a relief worker and different exercises that via internet can be exported.

The possibility round during the online treatment live to chatten with a relief worker is according to Jellinek, the hulpbieder in question, newly in the Netherlands. Jellinek is an institution for lusts care and -prevention in Amsterdam and the Gooi- and Vechtstreek.

“The online treatment can for a part the normal treatment replace, but will also men attract for who the threshold by a lusts care institution within to walk too high is”, says behandelaar Philip Cheaply. “Treatment via internet puts us in state these men much before to reach.”

Online help has according to Cheaply a number of advantages. “The help questioner is not there necessary the door for out. In a chat, he or they will dare indicate precisely differs before then what in a real conversation to it. And after result, the help questioner the chats can raise, read through can become has said through which later on yet once what the behandelaar.”

The program offers the user also tables and graphics. Furthermore there is via a forum a possibility till contact with companions.

The treatment lasts ten weeks, each chatsessie takes thirty until forty minutes in possession. The online method has not been intended for men with serious alcohol problems. Therefore firstly a questionnaire must be filled in.

The online treatment falls under the Law on the Medical attending agreement. The University of Amsterdam will evaluate the program, so that scientific built pronunciations done can become about the effectiviteit of it.