Madrugada
Since: Jan, 2001
drunkscriblerian
Street Writing Man
from Castle Geekhaven
Since: Oct, 2010
Relationship Status: In season
#3: Nov 4th 2010 at 10:13:53 PM
As a borderline alcoholic, I'll comment...
Your character will be all right...as long as nothing stressful happens. As soon as something does, he or she will be wishing for a drink to "mellow things out" and be real grumpy when there isn't one.
Also, the first opportunity the character gets to have a drink, they'll get plastered.
Depending on how serious you want your character's addiction to be that's the worst of it for casual alcoholics; more than that and you should hit the medical textbooks. Seeing as I'm not to that stage yet (I hope), that's the best advice I can offer.
If I were to write some of the strange things that come under my eyes they would not be believed. ~Cora M. Strayer~
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So I have a character who is an alcoholic and at one point I'm going to strand him without alcohol for some time. This naturally leads to him getting delirium tremens. This leaves him irritable and short sighted (among other things, but those traits are the ones causing him the most problems at that point) and unable to form a solid plan. I plan to have him overcome this by having him drink some (he is always at least a bit drunk, so this will just be a return to status quo) and 'save' the day.
So my question is: How long would it take from drinking the alcohol to the symptoms of D.T. going away?
Note: I don't care about having a Family-Unfriendly Aesop or some Unfortunate Implications as I plan to make the whole thing as awesomely stupid as I can and then lampshade the hell out of the entire Booze-Based Buff element.