Medication for alcohol addiction, a common psychiatric disorder, is very important. Medications in the acute detoxification phase deal with the somatic and psychological withdrawal symptoms that occur with alcohol dependence. This is when a large number of medications, such as benzodiazepines, antidepressants, and mood stabilizers, are used to improve the patient’s somatic symptoms as well as psychological cravings. Medications are also very helpful in preventing relapse to drinking as the acute detoxification period is followed by the recovery period of abstinence, and a larger number of medications have been clinically proven to be helpful in mood stabilization as well as personality change in alcohol addicted patients. For example, many medications are helpful and have been shown to be clearly effective in improving mood when alcohol addicted patients experience a range of emotional problems, anxiety, and depression. Some medications are also helpful in reducing the patient’s craving for alcohol. For example, many patients in recovery are not heavily physically dependent on alcohol, but are heavily psychologically dependent and always want to drink, so medications can help reduce the patient’s craving for alcohol and greatly reduce the relapse rate. Therefore, medication is very effective and necessary in all processes of alcohol withdrawal.