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They told me, people would drink themselves to death more easily. So it was only reserved for people who were clearly in control, I may have seen one patient with it and hundreds of hardcore alcoholics.
The patient on them, needed to be isolated and we all got informed to not give him alcohol under any circumstances.
Which is much more difficult, then one would think. These people always talk about alcohol romantically. The alcoholis always find a way to get to alcohol, we had a reductive approach on station. There was 2 beers a day, one with breakfast and one with a late dinner. Which was offered open and could be willingly declined, it rarely was.
If problem arose during the stay, we had shots of clear alcohol, just don't show the bottle.
This was for the hardcore patients, who couldn't even walk otherwise. Get a shot, get an x-ray, really speed things along.
The idea was to get them down to a state, were you could manage them somewhat, reduce their pressure and then offer treatment for their other ills, which was our responsibility.
It is extremely difficult, we had people drink perfume and hand sanitizer, because we didn't offer the beers and their alcoholism slipped under the radar. They would never admit to drinking. Alcoholism is such a crazy disease, these people can emotionally blackmail others to bring them alcohol and lieing is part of the disease. Those people ignore or don't even comprehend that they are drinking sometimes.
Beer and Champaign aren't alcohol to them and are ignored, they will tell you they haven't had a drink in a three weeks stay, having 2 beers a day and half a bottle of liquor, that you provided. It is crazy. Giving them medication, that can kill them when they empty their bottle of liquor, is stupid. Seems impossible, to have a medication that eliviates the effects of hardcore alcohol withdrawal, but is also harmless with a bottle of hard liquor.
Maybe I'm wrong here, but sounds to good to be true. I don't believe in magic pills. Try honesty, the self-delusion of alcohol is the big problem. Pills are another form of delusion.
Just accept to feel horrible for a while as part of the process?
Or is taking a pill so vastly different from talking a shot of liquor? |