Originally Posted by
ElChupacabra 
Plus, tapering off alcohol, if you can manage it, is actually one of the safest ways to do it. It's just out of fashion in favour of medication because it takes will power to do. I was actually advised of this by my doctor!
Fashion ?
It's got nothing to do with fashion. Alcoholics can't do controlled drinking through will-power that's why tapering off is not used.
I don't know, either, how many alcoholics can phone for an ambulance, when they are fitting on the floor, swallowing their tongues, about to go into cardiac arrest.
There are many alcoholics here and no-one has said what you are doing is the right thing. Still, I know you cannot see the truth as you are still caught up in the insane thinking which alcohol causes.
I pray that you get through this....