Just like Club Brugge CEO, 200,000 Flemish people struggle with alcohol addiction: how do you get rid of it? And where can you go?

In a candid interview with ‘HUMO’, Club Brugge CEO Vincent Mannaert talks about his alcohol addiction and how he has been in therapy for it for the past two years. He is by no means alone in this: every year many thousands of Flemish people fight with the bottle. The tip of the iceberg, it turns out: “In Flanders, a population the size of the cities of Leuven and Hasselt is struggling with a serious alcohol addiction.” What does a treatment program look like? And what are the chances of success? Two addiction specialists answer.

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