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Most importantly, treatment would start with formal, medically supervised detoxification. Having this done on an outpatient basis is not nearly enough; I would suggest specific chemical dependency treatment and monitoring to give your nephew the best chance of long term survival from this chronic disease. Treatment does work.View Thread

Alcohol is a depressant when mixed with sleeping pills, pain medications or anti-anxiety medications. The additive effect from the depressant alcohol can be dangerous, or - indeed - deadly. Certainly the rate at which your husband is now drinking would be cause for great concern and treatment in and of itself. Mixed with chronic pain issues and pain medication, he is in immediate danger. I urge you to seek help from an addiction pain specialist immediately, and I emphasis the addiction specialist in this matter. He needs treatment, and he needs it now.View Thread



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