I am just starting my second week on naltrexone and feel awsome. My question is if I am going AF and drinking O'douls or any other non-alcholic beer is it okay to drink this without naltrexone? I am trying to follow my normal drinking patterns and just go with the flow but one of my "normal' drinking patterns is sometimes to throw the brakes on and drink non alcoholic beer instead of beer. LOl this only lasts a little while then back to the whiskey and beer. The reason I am asking this question is when I read the o'douls bottle it say it has less than .5% Alcohol so it has some alcohol in it. I made up my mind to NEVER drink without the golden rule nal + 1hour = drink time. So does one need to take Nal or consider it non alcholic and not take nal?

Thanks in advance

Ok Crown this is just my opinion but even if it has .5% alcohol you don't drink without Nal, period alcohol is alcohol. You even said it then leads to more real alcohol so why take the chance take the NAL.


corkit

This is such a small amount of alcohol you may be re-inforcing your addiction if you take the naltrexone so why chance that at all. Drink or don't drink but be careful with the way you use naltrexone or ask the good doctor on this one to be safe! Others hopefully will chime in here.

For the purposes of TSM, I would take Nal before any drink with alcohol in it, even if only 0.5%. Four of those would equal a regular beer! And even if you only had one or two, that's still a little bit of alcohol undoing some of your progress on TSM. Better safe than sorry I think!

Maybe take a smaller dose, especially if you know you are drinking less/ less time than normal.