Sleep was an obsession with me when I drank,because I didn't sleep,I passed out.I don't know what sleep would do to treat alcoholism.You can't learn how to stay sober in your sleep.Even now I have to really watch what I do so I can stay in a healthy sleep pattern.For at least five years of my drinking career I could only sleep for 2 hours,then I would be awake until I either took pills or drank more.Now,if I take care of myself,it's about 8 hours straight through.I just don't understand how it can be a treatment for alcoholism.

I have never been a great sleeper even when I was sober - too much going on in my mind
However with alcohol it was 3 hours at a stretch at the most followed by 3 hours of trying to get back to sleep and 1 hour of fitful snoozing
I have just been throuhg home detox (involving librium equivalent right enough) and been alcohol free for 12 days and have had sleeps of 7 -12 hours ever since with littel disturbance
I used to try and stay in bed in the mornings to delay starting drinking but I gave that up to and was at it first thing in the morning
I have concluded that sleep is a form of avoidance not a treatment/solution avoidance

Sleep is good but not always readily available. Meditation is better because it can at least be found anywhere where there is peace and quiet.

I would suggest reading "Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle for the kind of meditation that best replaces booze.

Ah, "to sleep and perchance to dream".Alcohol interferes with normal sleep can cause teeth grinding other weird stuff.Induced sleep as a recovery tool umm i don't know., maybe,can't drink if you are asleep.

I havent been able to get a good nights sleep in many years.When I was drinking I would black out but when I woke up I felt like I hadnt had any sleep at all. Now that I have been sober for over a yr, I thought that maybe I would be able to get a good nights rest. But I am up and down most the night.
Fore the sake of treatment....I cant see it working to not drink unless one is on meds to help sleep, then that could open another can of worms....

When I first started on the road to recovery I found that It would help me to just go to bed if I found myself in a stressful or unpleasant place. If I couldn't do anything to change it but I felt threaten as far as my soberity went, I took a nap. Most of the time when I got up I could look at things differently ( not Always). As far as meetings go; I try to be supportive as well as get support. They might be just drunk stories to us , but this was someone life. I try to find a way to help someone.In others words I don't go to meetings to get helped anymore, I go to give help.

sleep for the disease of alcoholism, no such thing, period.

When I was drinking, I did not so much sleep as pass out, and woke up tired and hung over. I still have sleep problems sober, was diagnosed with RLS, and the medication helps, but not enough, so I am sleep deprived a lot. It's tough being tired most of the time, but not enough to drive this man to drink. For an alc. like me, to drink is death, slowly or quickly. I choose life, there are spiritual lessons to be gained from struggle, I surrender my alcoholism, but I am willing to fight for life.

Sleep...the only way I could possibly sleep when craving alcohol is if I over medicated myself to the point of going into a coma or something. I've used my meds to pass out like that many times in order to avoid self injury or just to avoid the world and my circumstances. Living is so hard to do.