Hi Lavender,
I think any GP would have told him to get to CA first and foremost. My partner did get prescribed Valium as part of his recovery mental health treatment, but he had attempted suicide and had a complex mental health history, so I don’t know if this is done regularly? I disagreed with it with my partner as I think it’s mental to prescribe an addictive drug to an addict!
My partner has recovered before and now that he’s going through recovery again, in a very different way, engaging properly with CA every day, and having a sponsor etc, he’s said he’s realised he didn’t really recover before by just getting clean. He was still in that mindset, attracted to the wrong set of people as friends, and it was too easy for him to fall back into it when the opportunity presented itself. They need to learn recovery. I’d probably be very wary that he thinks he can easily stop and start something that was causing him to go missing for weeks, to miss his work, to sacrifice his loved ones? Without really addressing the problem, and understanding why he was doing what he did and the methods to stop it, can he recover for life or just for short periods at a time? Im still trying to learn about all of this myself but it sounds like he’s downplaying the control it must have had on him.
I hope you’re taking care of yourself through all of this x