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If people are struggling with alcoholism you can find 24/7 online meetings on the AA website [0] and a good online support forum on Reddit (r/stopdrinking).

[0] https://aa-intergroup.org/meetings/

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Or, if you don't want to participate in a 20th century trepanning ritual that barely works, you can get a real treatment, The Sinclair Method, and actually cure your alcoholism. It works in clinical studies, and I can say it worked for me. Nothing else did, certainly not group therapy where a room full of judgy strangers tell you you just haven't hit rock bottom yet so keep trying!

Fwiw AA has been proven to work as good as clinical psychiatry. Glad you're through it but naltrexone isn't for everyone. For example, it doesn't tackle the desire to drink.

Naltrexone when prescribed by the ordinary method in the USA does not seem to tackle the desire to drink as well. However, The Sinclair Method does exactly that. It is AA with a questionable history of success and provides no real way to stop the cravings. You've got 20 year vets of AA sitting around telling stories of the glory days. I don't think about alcohol at all. In fact, I am allowed to drink, but I find it quite unpleasant. I was deconditioned through The Sinclair Method.

Trepanning Ritual? WTF are you even talking about?

According to Wikipedia, "Trepanning: In ancient times, holes were drilled into a person who was behaving in what was considered an abnormal way to let out what people believed were evil spirits.[3] Evidence of trepanation has been found in prehistoric human remains from Neolithic times onward."

Did you attend an AA meeting where they drilled holes in someone's head? I have never heard of that before but there is the whole group-autonomy thing.

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How do you live being like this?

There's probably some confusion here with lobotomy

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