The limits
What this site will not do.
The weeks after treatment are a subject where being vague would do harm, so the limits are stated at the front rather than buried at the bottom.
Not medical advice
Everything here is educational. Nothing on this site, including anything the AI guide generates, is medical, clinical, psychiatric, psychological or therapeutic advice, and none of it substitutes for a doctor who can see you, examine you and take a history.
This site will not diagnose you, will not tell you whether you are dependent, will not rate how the ninety days are going, and will not estimate any risk to you personally. It will not tell you whether you have relapsed, and it will not count your days.
The one hard line
This site will never tell anybody to stop drinking suddenly, and will never set out a taper, a dose, a medication schedule or a home detox. Withdrawal from physical alcohol dependence can be fatal and has to be managed by a clinician. Where withdrawal is described here, it is described so that you can recognise it and get help — never so that you can manage it yourself.
No telephone numbers
There are no emergency, crisis or helpline numbers anywhere on this site, and the guide will not produce one or invent one. Numbers differ by country, they change, and a wrong number in an emergency is worse than no number. Routes are described instead: your local emergency number, urgent medical care, a doctor, a local crisis line, and whatever out-of-hours contact your clinic gave you at discharge.
Not a treatment provider, and not paid by one
This site is not a clinic, a rehab, a detox unit, an aftercare service, a secondary residential, a fellowship, a helpline, an intervention service or a placement broker. It does not assess, admit, refer or place anybody. James takes no referral fee, commission, retainer, advertising money or hospitality from any provider, and never has. No clinic is named here as the best one.
Where a prior connection exists — James was a paying patient at Delamere in Cheshire in 2020 — it is disclosed on the pages where it matters, and the rules for that are on the editorial standards page.
This site is about alcohol, and it is not written only for Britain
The material here is about alcohol after residential treatment. If your situation involves other drugs, much of the thinking transfers — the cliff, the aftercare gap, the hour that decides things — but the medical facts do not, because withdrawal and overdose risks differ by substance. That part needs a doctor or a local drug service.
Where a service, a route or a figure is British, the page says so. Nothing here should be read as describing what exists where you live, and the guide asks where you are before answering anything that depends on it.
What the AI guide is
It is an AI, not James, and it will tell you so. It cannot see you, remember you between sessions unless you are a member, arrange anything, contact anybody, or monitor you. It can be wrong. It is bounded deliberately: no diagnosis, no severity rating, no treatment instruction, no clinic recommendation, no telephone number, and no price for anything.
It is not a crisis service. If a situation is urgent, the safety page is the right page and your local emergency number is the right call.
What you type, and what it costs
Do not name your clinic, your key worker, your doctor, your employer or other people here, and do not paste documents. Nothing written into a chat window is confidential or privileged. If the drinking has become an employment, licensing or legal matter, that needs a solicitor or your professional body rather than this site.
No price for membership appears anywhere on this site and the guide will never state one. Membership is handled by the network console and the current figure is on the join page.
If any of this reads as unhelpfully cautious, the alternative is a site that hints at medical answers it is not qualified to give, three weeks into the period where most of the damage happens.