How to Log Medication Doses

AlcoLog includes a dose-tracking screen for eight medications and supplements people use around alcohol. It records a timestamp every time you take a dose, can remind you when the next one is due, and keeps a 24-hour list so you can see the day at a glance. Doses taken from 2 hours before a session until it ends also appear on that session in your History, but they are kept out of your AlcoScore.

# Step 1. Open the Medication screen

Tap the Alerts tab in the bottom navigation, scroll to the Medication section, and tap Medication.

The first time you visit, a sheet titled “Before you use Medications” explains that this is a logging and reference tool, not medical advice. Tap I Agree to continue. Not Now takes you back to Home, and the sheet appears again next time.

The screen keeps a Medical Disclaimer box at the top, followed by a How Medication Logging Works box you can collapse. Below them is one card per medication: Recovery Supplements, GLP-1 Agonists, Naltrexone, Gabapentin, Acamprosate, Disulfiram, Nalmefene, and Topiramate. Each card shows the brand names and a typical dose. There’s nothing to set up first.

Can’t see the Medication section? It’s controlled by Show Medications on Alerts Screen in Settings > Display & Haptics.

# Step 2. Log a dose

Tap your medication’s card. It expands to show its method (for example The Sinclair Method (TSM) for naltrexone), a short description, and a colored Log [name] Dose button.

Tap the button. A sheet titled Log [name] slides up and asks When did you take [name]?, with date and time wheels. It defaults to now; spin the wheels back to log a dose you took earlier, up to 24 hours ago.

Tap Confirm · Log Dose. The sheet closes, the button briefly reads ✓ Logged!, the card header shows when you logged it, and the dose appears under DOSES (LAST 24 HRS).

Once you’ve logged a dose, Home adds a 💊 Log a dose shortcut that opens this sheet for the medication you logged last.

# Step 3. Set a redose reminder (optional)

Below the log button, the REDOSE REMINDER (FROM NOW) section has two wheels: hours (0 to 12) and minutes (0, 15, 30 or 45). Set the gap until your next dose, then tap Set Reminder.

While it runs, the section shows the countdown (“⏰ 2h 14m until redose”) and a red Cancel button. The countdown also appears on Home and in the Alerts tab. When it’s time, you get a Redose Reminder notification: “Time to take your next dose of Naltrexone.” Tap Log dose on the notification to record the dose without opening the app.

If you named your medication during setup and left Remind me when the next dose is due on, the countdown runs from the last dose you entered. If that dose is already older than the gap you chose, the reminder arrives about a minute after setup.

# Step 4. Review and clean up

The DOSES (LAST 24 HRS) list shows every dose of that medication from the past 24 hours, with the time and date and a trash button.

Tap the trash button to remove a dose you logged by mistake. An alert titled Delete Dose Log? asks you to confirm and warns that this also removes the dose from your session history. Tap Delete.

After 24 hours a dose drops off this list on its own. A dose taken from 2 hours before a session until it ends stays on that session in your History. The list is for a quick look at today, not the permanent record.

# Step 5. Add a location reminder (Premium)

Each medication card has a LOCATION REMINDER section. With Premium, turn on Location reminder, choose Arrival, Departure or Both, and tap Add Location to pick a place. The limit counts all your saved locations, so when the list is full the section says Location limit reached (50 across all saved locations). Like session triggers, these reminders need iOS location access set to Always. Without Premium, the switch is locked.

When you arrive at or leave one of those places, AlcoLog sends a notification reminding you to log your dose, for example “Naltrexone Reminder”.

# Step 6. Log from Apple Watch (Premium)

The AlcoLog Watch app is a Premium feature. Outside Sober Mode, its home screen has a Meds button: from there you can log a dose and set or cancel a redose timer on your wrist.

That’s the whole loop: tap your medication, log the time, set a redose reminder if you want one, and check the day at a glance.

# What’s next

Logging doses sits next to your other alerts for water, pacing and limits. See setting up alerts. For Sinclair Method users, naltrexone’s editorial coverage is in the Naltrexone hub.