yeah ive actually been through this...i still drink, but i used to be an alcoholic bad. I was drinking a 5th a night (like you), sometimes even a liter....i would roll out of bed, shower, brush my teeth and go to work...and get the same warnings
its actually what made me curb my alcoholism... a little (my drinking is usually reserved for the night before i have a day off and if my wife has to work on my day off, then i will drink on my day off too (starting at like 9 am too)
i had to realize the drinking on my off time was starting to affect my work time...and i like my job and money and when i dont have a job and money ive been known to do extremely selfish and evil things. I go into a fukk everybody mindstate and do crazy dirt by lonely that can land me in prison or on the street riddled with bullets cause i fukked with the wrong one.
so yeah...i slowed down on my drinking. at first i switched to vodka because people were telling me it has no smell but 1. it still smells and 2. vodka was making me black out and say wild off the wall shyt to people i care about.
now i enjoy my brandy, henny and yuenglings and more recently, my 4 lokos ( i know 4 lokos gets shyt and yes it does taste like shyt but sometimes i got shyt to do and i only have an hour or 2 to enjoy some drinks and get drunk and 4 lokos do the trick...4 or 5 of them and im gooooooone)
marijuana >>>