Thanks, DriGuy. I’m a mere babe to sobriety compared to the likes of yourself.
But I honestly assumed 3+ years ago that I’d just give up for a few months and then be able to have the occasional drink. My GP didn’t say otherwise nor did a counsellor I had to see to get those Campril tablets. Mind you, would I have believed them if they’d said I had to quit 100%? The only place I’ve even seen in writing that a heavy drinker/alcoholic/dependent must quit 100% is SR.
I often bang on about GABA receptors, etc., but I haven’t got the medical knowledge to summarise this into a few sentences. I’ll try and do that this month as when I read it, it made it 100% clear how a drinker’s brain chemistry gets irreversibly altered, and after that, they (we) are programmed to relapse if we drink again.