Non alcoholic beer

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I really like the taste of beer and I miss it. I'm gluten free so the non alcoholic options are limited. I found non alcoholic gluten free beer that is 0.2% alcohol. ChatGPT says I would have to consume 58 beers to have a positive ETG at 100 ng/ml. I feel pretty safe drinking this but I'm just wondering if other people have tried this and passed their UA's. 

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Our cutoff is 20 ng/ ml. I absolutely wouldn't but I'm overly cautious.  

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Healer555 said:

Our cutoff is 20 ng/ ml. I absolutely wouldn't but I'm overly cautious.  

Wow I didn't know they had tests that low

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I wouldn't risk it. Ours is also 20 ng, and you can live without beer. 

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NurseGray said:

Wow I didn't know they had tests that low

Why do you think it's 100 for you? 

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If you are an addict, you should stay away from beer, even the very low alcohol beer. 1. If an alcoholic, you are still microdosing with alcohol and that will not last. Any recovery textbook or counselor will tell you that being an alcoholic and drinking low alcohol beer is a no-no because tje chances of an alcoholic being able to drink only low alcohol beer for a long period of time is Near Zero. You will relapse.

2. If you are/were addicted to drugs such as Fentanyl, opiates, etc, then you are simply trading one addiction for the other. It's called cross addiction. It's deadly. This is why if you are a drug addict or alcoholic and you get clean, you never start gambling or watching porn or smoking weed, because your ability to become addicted is through the roof.

3. You like the taste of beer. I like to travel to Coastal Greece. I cant go. don't have enough money. There are plenty of other options besides traveling to Greece.

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SheelaDavis said:

If you are an addict, you should stay away from beer, even the very low alcohol beer. 1. If an alcoholic, you are still microdosing with alcohol and that will not last. Any recovery textbook or counselor will tell you that being an alcoholic and drinking low alcohol beer is a no-no because tje chances of an alcoholic being able to drink only low alcohol beer for a long period of time is Near Zero. You will relapse.

2. If you are/were addicted to drugs such as Fentanyl, opiates, etc, then you are simply trading one addiction for the other. It's called cross addiction. It's deadly. This is why if you are a drug addict or alcoholic and you get clean, you never start gambling or watching porn or smoking weed, because your ability to become addicted is through the roof.

3. You like the taste of beer. I like to travel to Coastal Greece. I cant go. don't have enough money. There are plenty of other options besides traveling to Greece.

I'm actually not in the program for substances I'm in it for psychosis. But they make you drug test anyway even if you're in it for psychological reasons. 

Healer555 said:

Why do you think it's 100 for you? 

I thought that was as low as it goes

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NurseGray said:

I'm actua

NurseGray said:

I'm actually not in the program for substances I'm in it for psychosis. But they make you drug test anyway even if you're in it for psychological reasons. 

I thought that was as low as it goes

The levels were tested for are lower than levels for other people. 

 

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NurseGray, if you are in for psychosis and not an addict/alcoholic, then your guide as to whether alcohol or very very low dose alcohol is OK for you should come from you and your therapist and physician. My response given is for any and all readers on this board for the present and future that might be an addict/alcoholic. Anytime I post, I try to tailor the post to recovery principles to a large audience because of the large amount of addicts/alcoholics that read this board (such as myself).

I see no issue with a nurse who has a mental health serious issue being under consent order and being required to meet criteria to stay a nurse such as required meetings with therapists, adherence to medications, work reports by supervisors, BUT....they Should NOT have to drug test randomly. It's wrong and corrupt and all about money in this case. Your diagnosis is mental health related. If you aren't an addict, you shouldn't be made to check in daily and randomly test. It's amazing yo me how BONs still get away with this nonsense in 2025.

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NA beer is safe to drink.  Safest to drink would be thinks like Heineken 0.0 or Bud 0.0.  But I have drank athletic and others with 0.5% beers with no problems and they taste great.   

I have had 3 athletic beers at approx 6pm and had to get tested the next day, with a medical provider cutoff, and passed.   

ppl on this forum are way too cautious and are lowering their quality of life in the monitoring program.  Go ahead and enjoy your NA beer.  

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Universe93B said:

NA beer is safe to drink.  Safest to drink would be thinks like Heineken 0.0 or Bud 0.0.  But I have drank athletic and others with 0.5% beers with no problems and they taste great.   

I have had 3 athletic beers at approx 6pm and had to get tested the next day, with a medical provider cutoff, and passed.   

ppl on this forum are way too cautious and are lowering their quality of life in the monitoring program.  Go ahead and enjoy your NA beer.  

Chat AI would beg to differ. Seriously,  not being able to drink non alcoholic beer decreases quality of life? The monitoring agreement decrease my quality of life and I'm not looking to extend the length

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Healer555 said:

Chat AI would beg to differ. Seriously,  not being able to drink non alcoholic beer decreases quality of life? The monitoring agreement decrease my quality of life and I'm not looking to extend the length

And chat AI is the entire truth?   Heineken 0.0 and Bud 0.0 has the same amount of alcohol as a glass of OJ or banana.  

Don't tell others on here that NA beer causes positive tests - because it doesn't.  Every small thing can help quality of life during monitoring, so don't say it can or can't. 

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