About me: 30 year-old male lawyer going through a divorce, stressful job, complicated and torrid relationship with attractive coworker of the opposite sex who I see almost every day, and a two week trial starting across the country early next week. I was your typical frat boy in college; heavy drinking, girls, etc,., and all of my friends are big drinkers. I've always been a boozer when I go out, but when things started going sour in my marriage, and my relationship with the coworker got tumultuous, I started hitting the bottle very hard and have done so for 6-8 months. The last couple months have been a combination of heavy drinking and one night stands with meaningless women. I use women as much as a drug as I do booze, and I always get left feeling empty from either.
I've seen an addiction therapist and he recommended I go on antabuse. I got a precription this morning. I believe I am the type of person who could religiously take the drug every morning, and then, go nowhere near booze. My question is whether it is a bad idea to start it on the eve of my trial. Trials are incredibly stressful, and if I drank at all and got sick on trial, I would almost surely get fired.
Just found this site. Thank you all.
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