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You have not failed. You have made great strides in the last month from 5 pints plus a weeknight to 1 so thats 40 units or less a week to start with. If you are drinking over 100 units a week you can't just stop, that is very dangerous, you need to wean yourself down to nothing or sensible...

Keep up the progress mate. Massive strides already made.

Don't beat yourself up mate. We are all only Human after all. It take's a great amount of courage to show any vunerability and ask for advise especially on here. I know this. You have faced your Demons to better yourself and your family and for that you ARE a Man. It takes someone with balls to...

I have huge respect for you Fur Cough in addressing your problems and your demons. That takes a real Man. Good luck in reducing your alcohol intake to at least manageable levels.

I like a drink. I have drunk more in recent years when my life turned to shit in every single aspect so I can understand consoling yourself with a bottle. - - - Updated - - - 90. A bloody good innings.

Sir Winston Churchill. " I have taken far more out of alcohol, than alcohol has taken from me " This guy caned the brandy and port every single night and lived to 90 and was the best PM this country has ever had.

Famous alcoholics like Best drank 6 bottles of wine a day, over 400 units a week, Gascoigne 4 bottles of whisky a day, 700 units a week and Hurt 7 bottles of wine a day, 500 units a week. Now that is drinking but it is at such a stage then that totally obliteration is almost certain and quite...

The " problem drinker " myth of being a guy in a raincoat swigging spirits on bench ala " the lost weekend " is far from the truth. The heaviest drinkers in the country are middle aged , professionals who often cane down up to 100 units a week. Around 4 million of them. They function, go to work...

Agreed is is something the BMA plucked out of the air with no medical evidence under pressure from the goverment. 21 units for a social guy who likes a drink is ridiculously low. Other studies have shown up to 60 units a weak has not long term health risks and infact drinking a lot of alcohol...

Wean down and then try and have 2-3 alcohol free days a week. Baby steps. Have a liver function test and bloods for enzyeme levels to show how the liver is functioning. The liver is a brute of an organ and can take a huge amount of abuse but when it gets past fatty liver, hepatitis onto...

That is around 150 units a week. Some people can carry on like that for years but most people will not see 60. Heavy lifetime drinkers normally die between 50 or 60 if they do not stop. He needs to try and cut down. The worst thing he can do is go Cold Turkey as his body could go into shock. As...