When I was at the point, starting to shake a bit from withdrawal after a 3-week all-day/every-day binge, where I was either going to go to the store and buy more alcohol and convince myself I didn't care that my wife was going to walk out for good, knowing deep down that that would be the end of me and I would wind up dead soon, or I was going to go through the full detox hell but with support from my wife. So I went through 3 days of the full detox hell with no meds, and on day 4 I went back to the medical treatment group I had relapsed out of and never drank again. Still amazes me that I went that far down the hole before turning back, but I did and it worked out, so maybe that's what I needed to do at the time.
