Yes, as Itchy said, the thing to avoid is the long sleep. Actually they made a movie many years ago entitled "The Big Sleep". It's better to tough it through the insomnia barrier and as the days and nights pass on it gets better and better. Indeed, you'll probably find yourself having a more restful and sound sleep than you've had in years, like your body is finally catching up on getting healthy sleep instead of drugged sleep. They call the healthy variety REM sleep.
Booze may seem like it works to bring on sleep but actually it backfires since it tends to wake you up prematurely and then the temptation is to take more booze to get back to sleep, setting up a very dangerous downward spiral of dependency. And the booze is a depressant.
So I hope you can tough it out and break through the insomnia barrier.
W.