Is Antabuse The Answer to Alcohol Addiction

Well, had an invention-style meeting with my GP and wife today, with the kids running around the office as we talked alcohol addiction. Very confronting but also very real, I know what I wanted, my wife knew what she was there for and the doctor was open to listen to our experiences.

I have been thinking about my abstinence and relapse cycles and this time approached my alcohol experience with my previously successful smoking addiction. I appreciate that they are completely different animals, and that smoking and alcohol have all their peculiarities and differences - but for me i was trying to strip them back to what they essentially are - an addiction.

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And my understanding and experience of addiction is stripped back to a fundamental chemical reaction that pings in my brain and acts a triggers behavior to continuing smoking or continuing drinking. It is a chemical, physical compulsion at its base level, even thought of course there are other "higher" layers of psychological and emotional need driving it as well.

So I asked for a scrip for Antabuse, and I have thirty days supply. I will be treated with nausea if I consume alcohol. Simple as that. So there's that strong negative in place, which takes care of the weakness and deceit of my drinking; no more just having a beer on the way home, or knocking back the half drunk glass of wine from the night before first thing in the morning.

So here goes and I am very positive and confident that with the power of a deterrent like nausea I will be well equipped to deal with the other triggers that I use to drink. It is amazing how often I rationalise the fear of being sober and tired and irritable as a reason to buy a few bottles of beer and wine "just in case".

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And all the things I said nearly a year ago at the beginning of end 100 days to go still apply, just that I have wasted nearly year going through the motions to arrive at this point.

Here's  the best of this blog - my personal journey for you to discover.  If you've got a minute - connect and share.

http://soberin100days.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/when-youve-given-up-drink-and-those.html

http://soberin100days.blogspot.com.au/2011/04/one-week-sober.html

http://soberin100days.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/simple-honesty.html

http://soberin100days.blogspot.com.au/2011/08/friday-drinks-after-work.html

http://soberin100days.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/she-lives-with-broken-man.html


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Bren Murphy