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• How to stop drinking without AA — AA works for a lot of people. It did not work for me, and the assumption that it is the only door is one of the more tir…
• Naltrexone in the UK — plain guide — Naltrexone is the most widely-evidenced drug for alcohol problems that almost nobody in the UK has heard of. It is not a…
• Rehab vs outpatient — the honest version — I went to Delamere in June 2020. I paid for it. It was the right call for me. It is not the right call for everyone, and…
• Work addiction — the signs nobody around you will call out — Drinking gets called out. Eventually. Work, by contrast, comes with applause. That is the trap. I am sober since 2020 an…
• After rehab — what to actually do on day twenty-nine — The brochure ends on day twenty-eight. The risk does not. Most relapses inside the first year happen in the months a cli…
• Family of someone who is drinking — what actually helps — Most of the recovery industry is set up for the drinker. The people around them — the spouse on the stairs at midnight, …