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Mostly good, but still struggling

It's been about two months since I started taking Naltrexone to help me reduce my drinking.  It's been a real help, but over the past couple weeks I have found myself sliding back into old habits.  I'm not drinking nearly as much as I was before I started this journey, but instead of 0 or 1 drinks most nights like when I first started taking it, it's been more like 3 or 4. In the first few weeks, there were many days where I had 1 drink, then stopped.  Lately, that has not been the case.  It's either I have 0, or a few.  The days that I have 0, there are obviously a few urges and cravings I have to fight through, but once the 5-8pm window passes, I'm generally don't have any other cravings for the rest of the night. I think my strategy going forward should be to simply not drink most days.  I wake up feeling great, my energy levels are good throughout the day, and I feel proud of myself while I'm choosing to not drink, and into the day after. The j...