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One anecdote to another: Naltrexone isn't all that different from what you're describing Disulfiram as here - it's an opiod blocker so when you drink you get the poison and not the happy chemicals. That doesn't help with addiction, it's subjecting yourself to negative effects / conditioning for drinking.

Naltrexone doesn't work for me. It is not very effective for some people.

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Naltrexone and disulfram are incredibly different, both in terms of pharmacology and subjective experience. Naltrexone hangovers are an awful experience, but that's due to neurochemistry. It doesn't short citcuit metabolic pathways so you literally poison yourself when you drink alcohol.

Oh sure the process with how they work is very different. My point was more towards the 'this is unethical treatment' sentiment. I don't have experience with disulfram, but I'm familiar with a few different methods to treat addiction. Most of them make you feel like shit when you drink as a sort of skinner-style negative conditioning.

So yes, taking the one that doesn't actually make the poison _more toxic_ - just a less pleasant experience - is probably the preferred route so you don't endanger yourself. But it's still forcing yourself to extreme negative consequences and conditioning your brain to associate alcohol with misery.

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