I'm sorry you're having problems with chemical addictions, but I honestly feel that it's best to stop them both at the same time. Your psychiatrist is going to medicate you in an effort to stabilize your brain chemistry. Both marijuana and alcohol are going to interfere with that process.

Placing yourself with a group such as Alcoholics Anonymous might enable you to manage giving them both up at the same time. Besides, your psychotropic medications will be far more effective, and your psychiatrist will be able to add an appropriate med to help with the withdrawal symptoms. (You may have been self-medicating with alcohol and marijuana for some time.)

I'd definitely talk to my psychiatrist about it before I determined to give up one and later the other. They both have strong long-term serious consequences.

At one time it was thought that marijuana could cause changes in DNA; now we're
hearing that the product is much more intense in its chemistry. There will come a
time when a major report will be published that will indicate the serious consequences of marijuana use; I think you can count on that.

As for alcohol, doctors now have medical tools to use to help with withdrawal and
this may be the best time to give it up. The long-term consequences of alcohol
dependency are devastating for many, and remission will involve major changes in your
personality for the better. I don't know that there are any meds that will help with withdrawal from marijuana use. There may be; I'm just not aware of it.

Under any circumstances you have your work cut out for you, and you are in an
excellent position to get the help you need to stop the addictions. Just get clean, please.

Sorry about the paranoia; that will clear up probably once the drugs are out of your
system. The truth is what really matters, though, and I think you'd agree that
it's best to have both alcohol and marijuana out of your system and be on the way
to recovery (and remission in alcoholism).

I'd also publish your message on the Addiction Forum. Those folks are really expert
on giving advice about what to do for addictions and how to go about stopping them.
"Thickntired" is one who has undergone giving up alcohol and marijuana; she will be
more helpful than I could ever be in regard to chemical addictions; others could give
you super advice, too. Our understanding is directed more to care in bipolar illness.

I wish you the best.