ZAD Alcohol Detoxification Treatment– Sec.26

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 Twenty Sixth section.


ZAD-ADCT First Week Day One: A Safe Standard Alcohol Drink Demonstration (b)

Now all these five glasses of beverages contains equally the same amount of alcohol, known as “a standard alcohol drink” having around 10gms of alcohol by volume. Therefore according to the contemporary alcoholism prevention and treatment establishments alcohol drinks control, standard and safety monitoring research study (policy) position; all these standard alcohol drinks basically have roughly the same alcohol drink affect on the person who consumes them. None of these standard drinks more dangerous or safer than the others especially for the alcohol dependents! (Please note: the forth and fifth standard alcohol drinks mentioned in here have not yet come up in the establishments standard alcohol drinks list!) However according to the ZAD model, even though all of these drinks contain overall the same amount (around 10gms) of alcohol, the standards of safety or dangers of the drink is basically determined by the alcohol percentage (by volume) contained in the beverages at its consumption levels! As the percentage of alcohol in the volume of the drink (v/v) gets significantly lowered, then from a given threshold, the drink becomes significantly less dangerous and safer as its aims more and more towards the overall drink satiety! For example the 12 ounce (330ml) of 5% alcohol content beer or the 5 ounce (140ml.,) of 12% alcohol content wine are less dangerous and more safer than consuming the 1.5 ounce (40ml) of the 40% alcohol content distilled spirit with little or no titration! Therefore the people who take to consume the standard alcohol drink of a distilled spirit (with little or no titration) becomes very susceptible as they naturally get tempted to consume far more excessive amount of alcohol, than the one who takes to drinking the standard alcohol drink of a beer! Therefore, in general, a standard beer drink is considered much safer than the standard drink of distilled spirit as it contains almost 8 folds less (5%: 40%) alcohol content in it.

However in reality this popular conception of standard beer being safer than the standard distilled spirit may not be as true as it appears to be! First of all the standard beers 5% alcohol content still remains dangerously very high so the people at risk, (young, vulnerable, predisposed particularly the alcohol dependents) by their innate drinking nature quite “inadvertently” (unintentionally) end up in drinking many times more than their allotted “safe alcohol consumption limits” before they realize it! Secondly, describing those alcoholic beverages of around 5% alcohol content (beers, wine coolers, alcopops) as the low-alcohol beverages, in a way gives its drinkers a false sense of safety thus encourages or lure them to consume it sufficiently enough to obtain their full drink satiety underestimating its intoxicating effect! On the other hand the distilled spirit could make these people more apprehensive about its highly dangerous amounts of alcohol that it contains so they rather exercise more caution in indulging into its excessive drinking or the biological drink satiety (bingeing)! In this matter I found the following research by; Lintonen, T.; et a.l. (2001)[53] Guarna, J.; et al. (2000) [54] Giacopassi, D.J.; (1991) [55] Klein, H.; et al. (1990) [56] sheds some light on the drinkers perceptions about different alcoholic beverages especially the standard beer, wine and the distilled spirits.

(See its following part in the next post.)


Valerian Texeira.
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