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Yo Brother Ben,

Thanks for the video....Yes, I think NAL has been doing the same for me in regards to saving my excessive drinking.

BTW, we played Soul Man tonight and I again lead the band and I was totally sober all night (which I have to be), but afterwards I am having probably 2-3 units. Am having 2 now. Pre TSM, that would be a drunk fest after a gig.

Going to bed soon as I have to drive 2 hours in the morning to my island gig and then an early evening gig back on the mainland. Pre TSM, this would be a difficult proposition.

It is 2.42 AM and I will be up in 4.5 hours. Impossible pre TSM. My Best to you Ben, you are doing the world a huge service. I will try to subscribe under an alias as I can't use my regular email name as I want to remain anonymous....BEst, Jim

I agree with DOMD wholeheartedly!

Ben,

Thanks for your cautionary tale! Although my first thought was "what a stupid thing to do", this very thought has crossed my mind over the many months of my treatment, that maybe it was me that was the cause of my cure and not the Naltrexone. Fortunately, the idea of introducing another variable into the science experiment that is my life won out over the idea that I had somehow magically become unaddicted or at least in control all on my own. So, I never had one sip of alcohol without Naltrexone in 67 weeks and it has paid off! This is one instance where my OCD won out over my ego and it actually was a good thing.

In an odd way, I am glad that someone else has posted this experience and in such detail, so it is not repeated by others. We've had other members in the past, who could not continue TSM usually due to their need for opiate based pain meds, and their drinking went back to the way it used to be during the time they could not take Naltrexone which is of course and opiate receptor blocker. But I can't recall a person who consciously made the decision to drink without Naltrexone for no other reason than they thought that they could. And thank you for validating that it is the Naltrexone that whittles away at the addiction until one day it is gone.

Bob

First of all I wanted to shout, You edgit, how could you be so stupid? and then I thought Yeah that would be a conclusion I could come up with too, its me, Im older and wiser, Its got nothing ot do with naltraxone. So thanks for coming clean, that took some real, real guts. You were brave enough to go public from day one and I can only imagine what it took to admit to straying from course. Thank You. Socondly, you asked viewers to subscribe to your site, I tried and think I failed but then again Im hopeless with this sort of thing.

Anyway Im glad your back on the straight and narrow naltraxone path. We are lucky lucky people that its there for us and we found out about it.

Best of luck from the Emerald Isle

Hi Ben,
I just watched your "cautionary tale" video. Thanks so much for the heads-up! I think you're absolutely right about the potential hazard of wanting to attribute Naltrexone's effects to personal strength : )... That is to say, I can identify with that way of thinking, and I might have been susceptible to the same kind of screw-up had I not watched your video.

I just started Nal recently, and I'm really grateful for the personal experiences shared here on this forum, and I'm happy to have found your youtube channel!!! (I also subscribed- in spite of the potential risk of increasing your ego ... Hey but seriously: your willingness to be honest and share that experience seemed like strong evidence of a very reasonably-sized ego to me!

sincerely,
Shelly

PS: So you turn 47 in August? What day, if you don't mind me asking? I'll be 47 in January, and I was also a "crazy, staggering" drunk for over 20 years... So nice to meet people with similar interests, isn't it? ...