They also work to eliminate as many cues as possible. The patient and a friend are sent on a “search-and-destroy mission” in which everything that reminds the patient of alcohol is removed from his home: cocktail glasses, shakers, hip flasks, martini olives, and so forth. Anything that the drinker connects to alcohol use is a trigger, and has to go because otherwise it might be the agent of craving that brings an end to a hard-fought period of sobriety.
