ZAD Alcohol Detoxification Treatment– Sec. 18

Authors Note: - 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 Eighteenth section.


ZAD-ADCT: Lower-Alcoholic Beverages (LAB) Research and Selections (c)

Besides these low-alcohol beverages the soft or non-alcoholic drinks also plays most important role in the ZAD-ADCT therapy that we will know latter when we deal into its manual. Nevertheless, here beforehand one should never underestimate the power of even the non-alcoholic beverages popularly called as non-alcoholic de-alcoholized[40] alcohol free [41] near beer[42] butter beer[43] etc. Although they are named as non-alcoholic nevertheless they can still contain up to 0.5% alcohol in them! Therefore most of the alcoholism prevention and treatment concerns still consider them as dangerous for example; the “Alcohol Beverages addiction Information Center” warns: ‘it is unsafe to any one with an alcohol problem, who has been advised to stop drinking, so they should completely avoid drinking even the low-alcohol beverages’[44]. According to the National Council on Alcoholism’s position statement: “these beverages contain alcohol they are unsafe for alcoholics, alcohol abusers, pregnant women, and women considering conceiving a child….those who choose abstinence should avoid drinks labeled “nonalcoholic” or “de-alcoholized” as they may contain up to 0.5 percent alcohol” [45].

By all these above mentioned alcoholic beverages standards where even the so called non-alcoholic beverages which may contain 0.5% alcohol is considered as unsafe or dangerous to the people at risk due to its drug desire and the “impaired (loss of) control” factor! Under this condition the alcoholic drinks containing around 2.5% to 1.2% alcohol content (by volume) could prove fatal to them also in respect to the ICD-10[] and the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria implications! In fact people in general are quite capable of consuming far over the safe drinking levels i.e. excessive, intoxicating or inebriating amounts of alcohol by consuming these 2.5 to 1.2% range of the lower alcohol drinks if they decide or if the alcohol drinks makes them “impaired” or “loose control” while they take to drinking these alcoholic beverages! The worlds famous media CNN report of alcoholics drinking 30 to 35 beers (around 12 liters) daily evening [46] months even years together! An European historical research record state: Brewery workers in Munich used to drink 8 to 10 liters of light beer daily[47]. Therefore now in this ZAD-ADCT therapy, all these conventional alcoholism establishments contentions and those doctrines and dogmas of alcoholic drinks stimulating the alcohol dependent peoples “alcohol drug desire, craving” and bringing out the “loss of control” manifestation in them will be put to a real test!

Finally to sum up, the ZAD-ADCT therapy LAB selection basically stands on the principle of drink (thirst, taste and the stomach) desire satiety of the alcohol dependent to reduce their overall alcohol consumption! It considers the beverages having between 2.5 to 1.2 alcohol percentages as its “benchmark” of the “safe standard lower-alcohol drinks”. Nevertheless these beverages still could have dangerously high enough intoxicating or inebriating effect on its drinkers. Even the beverages having the alcohol content as low as 0.5% could make its alcohol pharmacological effect felt and could be successfully used in this therapy! By the way, the title: “Zero Alcohol Drink (ZAD)” now seems perfectly fits to it, as it is a relative term that at its higher end it represents the “lower or light” alcohol drinks (2.5to 1.2%) and on its bottom line it could virtually mean the non-alcoholic beverages (ranging from 0.5 to 0%!) as its name prudently suggest!

(See its following part in the next post.)

Valerian Texeira.
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