ZAD Alcohol Detoxification Treatment– Sec. 17

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 Seventeenth section.

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

Here I should warn people not to mistake the concept of these lower-alcohol beverage (LAB) by assuming that it is not simply possible for the drinker in general to drink enough amount of these beverages that could provide any real pharmacological of intoxicating effect! As a matter of fact, they should know that these LAB drinks having between 2.5% to 1.2% alcohol range could potentially turn anyone intoxicated if they decide to consume it in sufficient amounts of their drinking capacity! To make this clear, an Australian Govt. Report of Investigation about the alcoholic beverages stipulates: An “alcoholic Drink means any beer, wine, spirits, cider or other spirituous of fermented drinks of an intoxicating nature, and is generally understood to refer to drinks of 1.15% or more alcohol by volume. The view of the Commonwealth Department of Health is that drinks of less than 1.15% alcohol by volume should be classified as “very low alcohol” drinks[34]. Although the researchers allow quite a liberal dose of alcohol content; Holford, N.H.G (1997) 2.75% [35]., Magnusdottir, K., et, al. (2000) 2.25% [36]., Skog-O-J (1988) 2.2% [37] while deliberating in their low or light alcohol drink research! Nevertheless the alcohol control or policy-making bodies impose a very strict limit over the alcohol content of the low or light alcoholic beverages. In addition to the above mentioned report, another report from Europe named: Innovation in Europe: Research and Result confirming the status of the low-alcohol beverages, states: “Drinks are described as "low alcohol" if they contain less than 0.5% alcohol and alcohol free if they have less than 0.05% alcohol content” [38]. Alarmingly enough, it is possible for a person to consume more than the amount of a standard alcohol drink by consuming these 0.5% beverages in a drinking session! The House of Commons Hansard debate on Licensing Low Alcohol Drinks bill Clause 1 on this account states: “Low-alcohol liquor not to be intoxicating liquor for the purpose of the Licensing Act 1964” [39] under which those parliamentarians argue that the alcoholic beverages which contains even less than 0.5% alcohol content up to0.1% levels should be considered dangerous to the vulnerable sections of population specially to the young children! Therefore one should know that the ZAD promulgated LAB benchmark having between 2.5% to 1.2% alcohol content could rate pretty high in these standard of its intoxicating effect! It is precisely because of this reason the ZAD model stick to the benchmark standard of between 2.5% to 1.2% alcohol content beverages as its “safe standard lower-alcohol drink” so the critics would not dismiss it as having no “intoxication” effect, so the alcohol dependent people would not like these LAB because they don’t get the alcohol intoxication, high, or the inebriation from drinking it!


The great ability of the LAB to modify (lower or increase) the amount of the alcohol content in it whenever needed in its ZAD-ADCT therapy is its biggest strategic advantage! This also provides a special provision to increase the alcohol content in order to bring a relief for those alcohol dependents who suffer from some severe Alcohol Withdrawals (AW) in their first days in the ZAD-ADCT. In some exceptional cases such patients can be discreetly given up to 5% alcohol content beverages as the first two or more drinks if it deemed necessary to substitute or replace all those pharmacological drugs like Benzodiazepines etc. [16, 25] used in the conventional alcohol detoxification (AW) treatment! Thereafter in the subsequent drinks the alcohol content can be lowered down to the 2.5% levels and then further reduced to 1.2% as the days progress into the week. By the way, the standard alcohol percentage of the lower alcohol beverages (LAB) need not be always exactly 2.5%, at times it can be strategically a little less say 2.0% or further lowered even to 1.15% as the situation of the treatment demands!


(See its following part in the next post.)

Valerian Texeira.
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