Sir my husband 33 year old .he addicted to alcohol past two years severely .day and night he take lot of alcohol .one day seven bottles .please give me any advise to stop alcohol addiction. He start from college days and now all day he are taking alcohol .if 375 ml means four to five bottles. 200 ml means seven to eight bottles .when he feel low started next bottles too. And we have not baby. I loss my baby in womb seven month with iugr problem, placenta insufficiency. Now two year went. Please give me tips for leave alcohol.

Dr. Prof. Jagadeesan M.S.Psychiatrist16yrs exp

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Your husband is alcohol dependent and needs professional support, i.e. Psychiatrist help to come out of the same. There are 3 stages of treatment detoxification, maintenance and deaddiction wherein medications, counselling is given to make him stop his drinking. His alcohol dependence is most likely the cause for not having a baby as well. So better consult nearest experienced psychiatrist. Good luck.  

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Dr. Saul PereiraPsychologist49yrs exp

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He is definitely consuming too much alcohol and is addicted. I recommend that you look at the following advice for treating alcohol addiction. 'it does not matter when you feel like drinking, as long as you need your drink. This could lead to increased tolerance levels so that over time you will need to drink more to get the same or greater effect. You need to identify why you need to drink, and go back into your childhood to find out other influences on your personality that makes you prone to addiction. Meet with an addiction counselor and work with them to sort out this drive. You already display the classic tendency to first obsess about it and then compulsively feel driven to meet that need. The simplest thing to do is to do some other interesting activity during the times when you most feel like drinking. Meet your oral need with some other non-intoxicating drink like soups, juices, and sodas with lime, etc. If you think that you will find it very difficult, then admit yourself to a hospital and go for de-addiction: which normally lasts for about two weeks. Then follow that up with addiction counseling from a professional for at least three years to completely get rid of the habit. If this is also not enough, then admit yourself into a de-addiction center and stay there for at least 6 months and after that attend counseling with a professional. There are medicines that help with the drinking just to ease the initial craving. Ultimately, it is your will power and the support that you receive from the medical fraternity and your close and dear ones. You must also learn to substitute and deal with the oral need, a rigid value system, the script issue, and of course look at all the genetic factors to plan a strategy not to get into what is called ?cross addictions? i.e. Another form of addiction that may appear alright but is in fact as bad as the primary addiction. The center or hospital and the counselor will advise and guide you on several measures and precautions you will need to take to stay with your resolve. Even after the rehabilitation you must attend aa meetings and continue this support for a long time. Your family will also need to attend some sessions and go for al-anon meetings for their co-dependency issues. You cannot be treated in isolation because the family has gotten used to your drinking and have made some unhealthy adaptations to somehow cope. Make a serious plan with the family and whoever else?s support you can get and act on it fast. As a combination these two therapies (counseling and rehabilitation) will aid in dealing with the addiction. It will however take a long time to completely come off of the enslavement. Now this is good advice but ultimately he must want to give up drinking himself otherwise it is a losing battle mostly. In case he is unwilling, there are some institutions who will come and pick him up by force, often when he is drunk itself. I suspect that this may be your only resort right now. Don't give up on him. After many attempts, you will ultimately succeed, if you persevere.  

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Dr. Saranya DevanathanPsychiatrist49yrs exp

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Dear lybrate-user, Your husband seems to be dependent on alcohol. He may be normal without alcohol. Tell him you like him at that time. Motivate him to sleep without alcohol. Since alcohol is a sedative, when he stops drinking there is difficulty in sleeping. The brain gets used to the drinks. It will ask him to give drinks by disturbing his sleep. So, doctors' first medicine when he stops alcohol is a calmpose kind of drug. There are many types of such drugs - both tablets and injections. Few act only for 2 hours, few acts longer than 24 hours. It will be given for 2-3 weeks initially, when he stops drinking, depending on his need. It is a drug to stop him from suffering withdrawal symptoms. It may be given throughout the day also for few days so that he will not go for alcohol immediately. He will also be given motivational enhancement therapy and stress management therapy in first 12 weeks. He can also start with anti craving drugs like acamprosate, baclofen and naltrexone. They postpone his craving for alcohol. Not immediately - but in 3 months or so. They also make his brain to tolerate less and less alcohol. They are costly and need to be given for 9 months to a year in appropriate dose. He can also ask for aversion therapy with disulfiram. It makes the alcohol into a poison. The effect of poison, he will not like. He will be ok after taking the tablet daily. The tablet acts only when alcohol gets into his blood. Since the poison effect happens as soon as he drinks, he feels like not drinking or induce vomiting after drinking. This tablet is cheap, only less than rs. 2/day. It can be taken for life. Better to assign someone who will give the drug daily to him. May be you or his mother. All the other drugs he can take by himself.  

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