ZAD Alcohol Detoxification Treatment– Sec.35

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 Thirty Fifth section.


ZAD-ADCT in the Second Week

Entering into the second week of the ZAD-ADCT therapy the participants will be asked to meet every day in the evening from 6.00pm to 9.00pm safe LAB drinking sessions. (While their cousins in the other room attending their total abstinence (AA) evening meetings!)--- Here they have to evolve their own individual LAB drinking strategy to minimize their alcohol consumption, which suits them the most. --- Its long-term objective perhaps once-in-a-while to achieve literally the Zero Alcohol Drink for a day! A simple way to achieve it would be while beginning of the LAB drinking first take a glass of non-alcoholic (0.5%) or the light (1.2%) alcohol drink and then only go for this 2.5% LAB and repeat this drinking pattern in the evening drinking session! As the days progress, increase the portion the non-alcoholic and the LAD drink towards achieving the Zero Alcohol Drink Objective. Perhaps the Contingency Management' [52] motivational approach may help. However one need not make such achievement (but if any one achieves, it would be greatly appreciated) maintaining the safe alcohol consumption levels will be quite enough! --At 9.00pm a light evening meal will be served, after which it is time for every body to go home. --- Perhaps all should be given a quota of soft or the non-alcoholic drinks to carry home and asked to drink enough of it if needed during the daytime! --- A vehicle should be arranged to reach everybody to their home at night. --- Perhaps there are many such small strategic moves and incentives in the earlier stages of the ZAD-ADCT that may make the difference between its success and failure!

At the last day of this second week (which will be another Sunday) make it a full day session! --- In the morning their BAC levels will be checked (optional) followed by an analytic study comparing themselves with their total abstinence following fellowship cousins! --- Extend on the last Sundays Motivational sessions. Organize games sports and other activities. --- However tell them now they should prepare to enter into the third week of this therapy that will be conducted at their own home territory! --- During this third and the final week they should visit the center once in every two day evening to see how they are doing and to collect their two days quota of non-alcoholic (which may contain around 0.5% alcohol) drinks. Probably the staff members will visit or phone call their home daily or once in every two or three day to find out the whole therapy progress of this week.

(See its following part in the next post.)

Valerian Texeira.
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