Approaches such as 'tough love' and 'hitting bottom' are ineffective and harmful methods for helping someone with an alcohol use disorder.

“I think people have heard these Notions of like tough love enabling hitting bottom those are probably the biggest fallacies”

The medical community has moved away from using the term addictive personality in favor of viewing addiction as a disease defined by genetic vulnerability and susceptibility.

“we don't use that terminology anymore the the terminology the addicted personality now now we talk more about people being vulnerable to addiction or having a genetic load for addiction”