Antabuse for alcohol addiction

My unorthodox method of using antabuse (Disulfiram) to prevent alcohol consumption.

Medical Notice

I am not a doctor or qualified medical professional and the content on this site only represents my own experience.
No page on this site constitutes any form of medical advice nor do I claim to be a professional authority on any health or sports subject.

Not a recommendation

This method is not a recommendation and should be used for informational purposes only.

Why I am writing this

I like to say what has worked for me over the years. Personally I believe alcohol (ethanol) to be the most addictive and dangerous recreational narcotic drug (not to mention physique destroying) of them all. It is only legal due to historical legislation; the USA's failure in trying to ban it with national prohibition; and the difficulty in removing such a widely used billion dollar drug market from existence.

I started being a social drinker who would easily shun alcohol Monday to Friday, but as I got older, with my binary black & white personality - I found myself either on the booze, or I'm off.

Does that mean I am an alcoholic? Perhaps, by some diagnosis. But, I don't drink. Because I took antabuse.

I don't use antabuse so much anymore - I only take a tablet before things such as holiday when I am highly likely to be tempted to drink.

Sporadic / occassional usage

I started taking antbause by taking 1/4 tab (50mg) on a Monday. This would prevent me from drinking Monday to Friday. If I tried to drink on Friday night, I would have symptoms, but I was able to drink again on Saturday.

The half life of antabuse would suggest this method needs a drug holiday from time to time, but I successfully used it for months across years whilst working to prevent myself from drinking during the week.

It is important to note that the half life has significant variance in humans and that attempting the above could be dangerous if your body does not process it quickly enough. Drinking whilst antabause is still in the blood is outright dangerous.

This may sound like lunacy, but as a man in his late 20s trying to grow a company whilst lifting at the same time, it simply worked. I have never been fat in my life, and I credit most of this to the drug antabuse.

I recall revealing the account of my usage to one psychiatrist who said something along the lines of "that's pretty stupid... kinda clever though."

Antabuse implant

Whilst unavailable in the UK, antabuse implants are available in pellet form which prevent you drinking for a year. I have considered this at times, but I have never found myself so engulfed by alcohol for the sporadic usage method not to be effective.

About Kishore Naib (Kit Naib)

Kishore founded the e-commerce company Watch Shop in 2007 and exited in 2014 after an acquisition by Watches of Switzerland at the age of 34. Watch Shop was a medium sized enterprise (£44 million sales) and was one of the UK's fasted growing companies, doubling turnover every year.

After leaving Watch Shop Kishore did a few coding projects but decided to follow his true and first passion: Lifting and bodybuilding.

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