ZAD Alcohol Detoxification Treatment– Sec.41

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 Forty First section.

Lack of LAB Drinking Research in the Prevention of Alcoholism (b)

However so far I could not find any alcoholism websites documents that provides any evidence that the people at risk particularly the alcohol dependents are not able to reduce their alcohol consumption by adopting or opting to the LAB drinking! I have extensively searched in the WHO, NIAAA and also other alcoholism prevention and treatment websites for any documents for any research evidence, which proves that the alcohol dependent people cannot reduce their overall alcohol consumption by opting for this LAB drinking but could not find any! If there are any chances of locating such research findings which prove that the alcohol dependent people cannot cut-down or reduces their alcohol consumption by drinking the low-alcohol beverages, then it would be mainly in the NIAAA Databases, Resources/ ETOH Archive! Here too, for my extensive search from top to bottom (“title” to “abstract”) for the words like, “low alcohol drink (+) alcohol dependence treatment” or words of that sort, returns with absolutely nothing! (Did I miss those very important research documents, which is some where else? I don’t know!). To get any thing nearer on the subject matter, one has to go down reducing the title search words finally to “low alcohol”! Suddenly one finds more than thirty hits but awfully most of them pertaining to the research or experiments on the Low Alcohol Preferring (LAP) or Drinking (LAD) animals (rats or mice) which has mostly nothing to do with the low-alcohol beverage drinking in the prevention and treatment of the alcohol dependent human subjects! Regrettably in my search I could not find any noteworthy research experiments conducted for the fast 10 years to find out the impact of the low-alcohol beverages on the human subjects overall alcohol consumptions! Nevertheless there are some significant research study of low-alcohol beverage drinking outcome on peoples overall alcohol consumption conducted by, Geller, E.S. et al. titled “A time and place for low-alcohol alternatives” (1991) which concludes among other things that “Since those assigned to the low-alcohol conditions did not consume more beverages than those in the regular alcohol conditions, ……exit BACs were significantly lower for parties in the low-alcohol conditions.” [48]. Another distinguished study conducted in this direction is by Adrian, M.; et, al. under the title “Effect of low alcohol beverages on alcoholism levels in Canada in 1986” (1992) remarkably concludes; “The study results indicated that the drop in alcoholics exceeded the drop in alcohol consumption, and it is suggested that as the market share of low alcohol beverages increases, both consumption and levels of alcoholism will decrease” [50]. Another most important research on this field are carried out by Kalsher-M-J; et al. (1988) [49] Also by Van Houten, R.; et al., (1994)[51]. Apart from which the research findings of Skog-O-J. (1988) [37, 66, 67] seems to be very favorable to the ZAD perspective more than any in numbers with different angles i.e. low-alcohol, substitution hypothesis, as well as in the field of alcoholic appetite, loss of control concepts etc! There are many other research findings which offers some glimpse over my subject matter among them are the Schaefer-J-M. 1985[68] WHO project (1997) [69], Barrucand-D; et, al. (1982)[70], Frankel-Alan (1976)[71], Ahlstrom-Laakso-Salme (1976)[72] etc. Apart from these there are many other important research findings even though not directly dealing with the low-alcohol beverages nevertheless they could endorse the validity of the ZAD model for example the research on “Animal Models” one among them is the research carried by Herman H. Samson[74] but I leave out rest for not to overcrowd the reference list.


(See its following part in the next post.)

Valerian Texeira.
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