Supporting a young adult child with alcohol dependency at home

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Do any of you have a young adult child you’re supporting?
my YA is back from uni and for the first time has asked for help.
after at least two years of daily drinking- sometimes up to three bottles of wine, they are engaging with addiction support and we are tapering at home.

it’s exhausting and draining to be the parent supporting this.

Are there any others here?
I know there is the thread for people affected by other’s drinking but it’s mainly partners and this is my YA and I feel it’s different x

Thank you so much for your posts.
they echo with me- especially the one where you’ve done days and days of good work and it’s not all messed up by one lapse.
that feels more comforting than the ‘back at square one’ narrative.

ny youngster doesn’t leave the house at the moment and is trying to do some retakes so life is a bit limited. They do play a musical instrument and this is a bit of solace

OP. I have a DS25 who has just started Naltrexone. It is a drug you take one hour before drinking alcohol. Every. Single. Time. The drug blocks the opioid receptors and conditions your brain to ‘unlearn’ its alcohol addiction.
It can take months but has an 80% success rate (AA has 5-10%).
my ds was not ready for total abstinence. Using Naltrexone allows him to still drink, knowing that each time he does, moves him that much closer to what’s called’extinction’
If you think it may help your ds, look up The Sinclair Method (TSM) and see what you think.

Btw GP’s rarely prescribe it. You have to get it privately.

This is the total opposite of how Naltrexone works

SMART Recovery have a Friends & Family programme with resources, online meetings etc- it may be helpful to you. I’m sorry you are in this very difficult situation.

i find the support meetings too much for this charity.
i get traumatised by other people’s stories- it’s just too much I’m afraid!
I do have a much smaller group that I can cope with so I’m not totally alone

It really isn’t, look up the BNF guidelines, the NICE Guidelines, and speak to an addiction psychiatrist. I’ve been on it, been on detoxes, and been in rehab, I’m not just some random person making things up for the fun of it.