ZAD Alcohol Detoxification Treatment– Sec. 16

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 Sixteenth section.


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

Low-Alcohol Beverages, the LAB or the LAD, which contains in between 2.5% to 1.2% alcohol content by volume, plays the pivotal role in the entire ZAD model. Basically its “drink satiety” immediately as well as in the long run replaces and substitutes the pharmacological drugs, which are used in the conventional alcohol detox treatments. The entire ZAD-ADCT stands on this LAB drinking foundation! Therefore first of all a very careful attention should be paid in the selection of the ZAD promulgated low-alcohol beverages benchmark between 2.5% to 1.2% alcohol content standards and it should also combined with varieties of taste/flavors, which stimulates the participants drinking appetite. While selecting these LAB’s it should be also kept in mind that such kind of beverages conveniently available for them for drinking in the future at their home environment!

The ZAD theory [13] in its core essence contends that; ‘the human habit of drinking alcohol (apart from its drug desire) originates from their biological need (desire) for the drink: ‘the ”thirst” (re-hydration), “taste” (intake of suitable nutrition’s, calories) and the “stomach” (its fuel or food carrying capacity) satiety”! --An 18th century poet Edward Rowland Sill writes: “At the punch-bowl’s brink, Let the *thirsty* think, What they say in Japan: First the man takes a drink, Then the drink takes a drink” [26]. I think this passage points out some very deep hidden message about the principle role played by the “thirst” which is most of the time overlooked in the matters human alcohol drinking! First the alcohol drink draws the *thirsty* in for a drink but then comes its fatal entrapment! The alcohol part of the drink due to its diuretic effect could make them still more and more thirst for the drink! So; “First the man takes a drink, Then the drink takes a drink”! Of course loosening the inhibitions due to its drug effect is another factor that perhaps the author had in his mind in writing “the drinks takes a drink”! Now coming to its *taste* factor. There are many research findings that suggest that a liking for sweets (sweet tooth) a strong appetite or taste in humans are tied or a marker to alcoholism. Appetite-Linked Gene[27] A liking for sweets[28], Sweet tooth, a marker for alcoholism[29], which I mention as some of its research report references! A research conducted by: Baker-T-B; and Cannon-D-S. (1982) concludes: “The drinking patterns of human alcoholics appear to be consistent with taste mediated learning principles”[30]. This principle taste/flavor factor of alcohol can be also used (manipulated) into its aversion (disulfiram) to suppress its oral consumption! The experiments on Animal models could reveal more on this subject matters. Finally coming to the principle of the persons *stomach* factor its given capacity or its condition that ultimately determines the persons total amount of the beverage consumption, reflected in the “binge drinking”! Therefore under these above principle guidelines, select varieties of novel tasting sweet combined delicious low-alcohol (between 2.5 to1.2 percent) beverage for those alcohol dependent (alcoholic) people to be used in this drinking therapy. Perhaps some of it may follow the examples of the newly marketed designer drink popularly known as “alcopops” [31, 32, 33] that may be of some interest in this matter if it suits it well! Some of these beverages (including the non-alcoholic and the soft drinks) may be made of the taste and flavor (smell) of high standard alcohol, which may appeal or trigger their drinking appetite!


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Valerian Texeira.
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