Hello Jessica,
I have only been thru the medical system for alcohol with my RAH. The first time I got involved, he was having what I thought was a nervous breakdown. I drove him to an ER. They were fine with him and he was given meds to comfortably come off his drinking level and enrolled him in their IOP.
Five years later my H was in even worse shape. This time I understood that it was much more alcohol-related. I went with him to his MD (whom he rarely sees) and sat in the corner and let him talk. I just corrected his amounts. (I wasn't a strict counter, but we recycle...) The MD pulled his PA in and they tried to get him into a local inpatient rehab. The MD was exceedingly kind but firm about my H needing to arrest his addiction. He told us his brother had died from alcoholism. We left there to try to get my H into the rehab but it did not happen. The MD then did authorize some scripts to help H come off the alcohol cold turkey at home.