ZAD-Alcohol Detoxification Treatment– Sec.1

Zero Alcohol Drink – Alcohol Detoxification Clinical Therapy (ZAD-ADCT) is the most important Document so far in my ZAD venture. It was first published in 2005. In this blog publication, I divide it into its several small “subtitle” sections and post it one by one so to make it more appropriate to the blog reading.

This is its first section.




Zero Alcohol Drink
Alcohol Detoxification Clinical Therapy
(ZAD-ADCT)

OPTING for
Low-Alcohol Beverages (LAB) Drinking,
prudently named as the ZAD;
is a Natural Way of Alcohol Detoxification
and to get rid of the “alcohol dependence”:
A prospect for alcohol dependents (alcoholics)
to obtain A Complete Cure from Alcoholism.
By: Valerian Texeira.

Abstract
This paper [1] is born out of the need for a sequel to my previous ZAD alcoholism research papers [2, 3]. In the first part it gives a brief account of my finding of the ZAD method, its publications and now the need of this ZAD-ADCT brought into its vanguard to overcome its entry barriers. The fundamental difference and the parallels between the total abstinence based conventional alcohol detoxification vs. the ZAD (LAB) drinking based Alcohol Detoxification principally been probed and analyzed at the end of this first part. In the second part, it outlines the principle guidelines and parameter of the ZAD-ADCT; its three-in-one dynamic approach its preconditions its ‘screening and selection’ procedures its LAB strategic deployment and most importantly the basics of its cognitive motivational therapy (CMT) being defined. In the Part-III, comes its main three weeks composite ZAD-ADCT therapy manual and its after care, follow up or the observational period that remains for the duration of one year! It concludes by pointing to the “Lack of LAB Drinking Research in the field of alcoholism prevention and treatment therefore appeals to the establishments’ authorities to help to conduct the much needed research studies particularly this ZAD-ADCT in this connections.


Part -I
Prelude to The ZAD-ADCT


“Alcohol-related death and disability account for even greater costs to life and longevity than those caused by tobacco use, according to the global burden of disease study sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank. This study puts alcohol’s global health impact on a par with unsafe sex and above tobacco in terms of its contribution to the total number of years of life lost to death and disability as recorded in Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). In addition to chronic diseases that may affect drinkers after many years of heavy use, alcohol contributes to traumatic outcomes that kill or disable at a relatively young age, resulting in the loss of many years of life to death or disability.”—WHO, Global Alcohol Database.[4]

Introduction

After suffering from a long 15 years of alcohol “Dependence” Syndrome[5] or alcoholism[6,7] as defined in the ICD-10[8] and DSM-IV[9], all these years failing miserably to keep on my total abstinence resolve and falling back into that same decadent “relapse”; lately then I was earnestly started trying to explore some alternative ways to this “total abstinence” to come out of my alcohol dependence without having to abstain from my alcohol drink! In other words, I badly needed to continue with my alcohol drink but at the same time desperately trying to get rid of my alcohol dependence or the “addiction”, which is what I used to call it then! (To know more on this please read the forward of my ZAD book “forward” given in the Alcoholics Curewell website[10]). Finally, wondrously enough I found a simple and successful alcohol minimizing lower-alcohol beverage (LAB) drinking method, (“Necessity is the Mother of Invention”) that within some days had gradually removed my almost 15 years of chronic alcohol dependence! All my alcohol “craving”, “impaired (loss of) control”, alcohol physical dependence (withdrawals) tolerance all it symptoms[7] syndrome[5] have completely gone! (I had severe alcoholism symptoms or the dependence syndrome and many of those reckless behavioral anecdotes, besides I was brewing and distilling the alcohol when I could not afford to buy it, of course only for my private use.) I became able to successfully come out of my alcohol dependence while continue to drink alcohol by adapting to this lower-alcohol beverage drinking!

Obviously, my above finding stands in sharp contrast with the prevailing alcoholism diagnostic prevention, treatment, and recovery doctrines, promulgated by the worldwide alcoholism prevention and treatment concerns specially the leading world health Establishments; WHO and the USDHHS! They declare in general that the “substance (alcohol) dependence syndrome” manifests in: “often strong, sometimes overpowering” [8] ‘psychoactive drug desire’ +(“craving”)+ and “Not being able to stop drinking once drinking has begun”[9] due to its “impaired (loss of) control” symptoms! Therefore it is not possible to the alcohol “dependent” alcoholics to come out of their alcoholism while continue to drink alcohol! It basically implies that the only option so far for the alcohol dependents (alcoholics) to get recovery from their ‘alcohol dependence’ lies fundamentally in the ‘total abstinence’ from drinking alcohol! They claim; “alcoholism is a chronic…disease”… “Alcoholism cannot be cured”[6,7], “Cutting down” on drinking doesn’t work; ‘cutting out alcohol is necessary for a successful recovery’ etc. So, by all these accounts it seems in my case, I had proven them wrong! Some how I found a complete CURE for the alcoholism! Since adapting to this new low-alcohol drinking strategy, I became absolutely able to control my alcohol consumption to such a minimum levels which is far below than the establishments moderate, low-risk or the safe drinking limits promulgations[11, 12], nevertheless I continue to fully enjoy my alcohol drinking! I named my newly found lower-alcoholic beverage drinking technique or strategy for the prevention, treatment and complete cure for alcohol dependence/addiction (alcoholism) as the Zero Alcohol Drink (ZAD) “Method” and latter as the “ZAD Practice”.

(See its following part in the next post.)

Valerian Texeira.
http://www.geocities.com/scientific_misconduct
http://www.geocities.com/alcoholics_curewell
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/
http://alcoholicscurewell.blogspot.com/