hi,
i usually post in the heroin forum, but since i started on suboxone and finally got that right--not using heroin anymore. i connot get over the obsession to drink. i will give a little background age 15 tryed pot, hated the taste of alch. then still 15 tried coke about 16 started drinking figured that if i did not drink then i would not be accepted by the "in" crowd. age 17-19 smoked crack- did not drink stopped crack picked up drinking heavy. then 22 found h stopped drinking again now fast forward to now age 33 i am on suboxone it is working for the heroin my problem is i still drink! i crave the taste of it everyday when i am at work i pray to ease the obsseision from me then as soon as i get off i find myself at the beer store. what the f**k is wrong with me? i have a bad liver but i fool myself into thinking just one that never works. i feel so hopeless. i quit all oteher drugs why not alchol?? to me this is the worst drug to quit it is legal, acceptable oh i don't know i just need to talk to some one that knows where i am coming from.
nat
Hi, i only read this the other day, maybe it will help you.....
Where a person is physically or emotionally dependent on drugs, most drug rehabilitation professionals highly recommend that he abstain completely from all drugs that can have a mood-changing effect on him. Mood changers are drugs that alter ones mental and emotional capacities. Simply stated, they are drugs that make you drowsy, sleepy, calm, energetic, nervous, more alert, or cause hallucinations. These would include tranquilizers, narcotics, sedatives, alcohol, even over-the-counter nonprescription drugs such as cold remedies or cough medicines, which may contain such mood changers as antihistamine or alcohol.
Why must all such drugs be avoided by the former drug addict? According to one drug rehabilitation publication: The only way to keep from getting or continuing a habit is not to take that first fix, pill or drink. . . . We put great emphasis on this for we know that when we use drugs in any form, or substitute one for another, we release our addiction all over again.
To illustrate: Consider the example of a recovering heroin user. What might happen if, after abstaining from heroin for some time, he begins to drink alcohol? He would be in real danger of reactivating his compulsion to get high. And once the compulsion to get high is rekindled, its very difficult for him not to return to drugs. Compulsion, states Recovery and Relapse, that once having started the process with one fix, one pill, or one drink, we cannot stop through our own power of will.
Where a person is physically or emotionally dependent on drugs, most drug rehabilitation professionals highly recommend that he abstain completely from all drugs that can have a mood-changing effect on him. Mood changers are drugs that alter ones mental and emotional capacities. Simply stated, they are drugs that make you drowsy, sleepy, calm, energetic, nervous, more alert, or cause hallucinations. These would include tranquilizers, narcotics, sedatives, alcohol, even over-the-counter nonprescription drugs such as cold remedies or cough medicines, which may contain such mood changers as antihistamine or alcohol.
Why must all such drugs be avoided by the former drug addict? According to one drug rehabilitation publication: The only way to keep from getting or continuing a habit is not to take that first fix, pill or drink. . . . We put great emphasis on this for we know that when we use drugs in any form, or substitute one for another, we release our addiction all over again.
To illustrate: Consider the example of a recovering heroin user. What might happen if, after abstaining from heroin for some time, he begins to drink alcohol? He would be in real danger of reactivating his compulsion to get high. And once the compulsion to get high is rekindled, its very difficult for him not to return to drugs. Compulsion, states Recovery and Relapse, that once having started the process with one fix, one pill, or one drink, we cannot stop through our own power of will.
instead of finding yourself in front of the beer store, why don't you find yourself at a AA meeting, find one and go straight there after work, what do you have to lose, God Be With You Nat
natalie, if you are looking for advice, i have some for you, but whether it will do you any good and answer your question depends on you answer to this question --
to what lengths are you willing to go to be free of your alcohol obsession ?
