Originally Posted by
Chelle3 
I had no idea this was part of getting worse, I thought it was a solution to insomnia.
Insomnia is also a sign of the progression of alcoholism. When people get drunk and "sleep", they aren't sleeping in the energy-regenerating sense of the word. They are passing out. They don't dream. They don't regenerate. When they come to, they are sobering up and feeling withdrawal symptoms that make it impossible to sleep so they drink again to address those physical symptoms and pass out. My XA would keep just enough in the bottle at the end of a night so he could swig out of it when he woke up at 3 am.