The ZAD Essence

A Simple, inexpensive and effective therapy to prevent, treat and to CURE alcoholism.

If you or any one that you are concerned about suffer from alcoholism problems mainly the “dependence”, here is a simple, inexpensive and most importantly the pleasurable (you believe it or not!) low-alcohol drinking method or therapy, opting to which any one can successfully get detoxified and completely cured of it.

“Whenever taking to drink alcohol, always mix (or simultaneously consume) ‘progressively adequate proportion’ of appetizing Non-Alcoholic Beverages to reduce its alcohol content sufficiently safe enough lower levels and drink it stomach-full, for satiety”! In other words, people while in the alcohol dependence never to drink high alcohol percentage (v/v) beverages (Standard Alcohol Drinks). Instead they should always consume exclusively and sufficient enough Low-Alcoholic Beverages (having 2% or less alcohol v/v content.) with the appealing, taste and flavor that primarily fulfills its drinkers overall Drink Satiety Desire.”

ZAD BOOK- Foreword to 2000 Edition

Foreword to the ZAD Book: By Victor Pais

I and Valu, (author) are friends from our childhood days. The friendship grew closer in our grownup years, as we shared the same ideology and participated in many group activities. As young adults, at festivals party times in our friends circles, although, everyone in the group take their drinking enjoyment, but I remember Valu, even though he lively participated in the group's fun but never took the alcohol drink. We knew him that he had this strong character, if he takes to any taste he will cling to the habit very fast. He was already a heavy smoker and the alcohol drink may prove fatal to him.

As the years passed by as the events turned out, Valu started drinking alcohol latter in his adult life and soon got into the strong drinking habit. As I was accompanying him I too started drinking alcohol daily. A 180ml. (around five drinks) in the evening became my standard limit. However, Valu constantly over riding this limit over many times. In my long years of drinking career, I did face many difficulties and troubles due to this drinking habit as I see it today. My mental and physical health suffered a lot. Many times I gave up alcohol only to resume it once again. It became essential to my life as a necessary part to live with.

I had my own reservations when Valu first gave me to read this paper 'A Scientific Method to Minimize Alcohol THE ZERO ALCOHOL DRINK THEORY'. I had my own doubts about the scientific underlining of this method. I could not really believe in the properties of that 'Blended drink' could substitute the requirement of real alcohol intoxication! I was not ready to give up my old ways of alcohol drink for this new "scientific" method. I was not terribly convinced about this theory and not too keen in adopting this method. It was after long discussion on this minimizing method about its beneficial aspect that I finally realized that it is my prefixed ideas, mind set or the prejudice regarding the basic purpose, natural function and actual (biological) need of the alcohol drink that really preventing me from accepting this minimizing method.

Once I cleared myself of this mental block, it became quite easy for me to successfully adopt to this method. Soon I was able to reduce my alcohol gradually from 180ml to a stable and steady 20ml. a day! Now I don't want to reveal whether I had reached my zero alcohol drink or not! Because I don't want to preemptively influence any of the readers on their ability in successfully zeroing their alcohol drink. Also because as we all know that the alcohol addicts are very much capable of completely stopping, giving up or totally abstaining from their alcohol drink at once. (which may stand paralleled to the zero alcohol!) However, what is most important in this method for those strongly alcohol addicted people is, to successfully reduce their alcohol step by step to that negligible minimum level at around 10ml., every day with consistency, which is so far believed to be simply impossible to achieve for any category of alcohol drinkers let alone the alcohol addicts.
Today, I drink this negligible amount as my standard minimum limit every day with most drinking satisfaction and fulfillment. No doubt this new method of blended alcohol drink is far more superior to that of my old way of drinking. It has greatly benefited my life in many ways.

The most important point that I would like to corroborate in here is, the readers of this theory book who have been drinking may not be convincingly able to adopt to this scientific method immediately after reading this book at once, as it happened in my case. Those who desire but find it difficult to properly understand and adopt this method may require further consultancy or correspondence to clear out their suspicions, reservations and doubts.

Theories vastly differ in their practice. Even though, they are universally same everywhere in their basic laws, they vary in forms and configurations in each individual case, while in practice. As people come from different backgrounds, have their own characters, opinions, views regarding their actual purpose and real needs of drinking alcohol. This needs to be addressed with more personal care, interactions and demonstrations especially sharing with others personal and collective experience which could help them successfully adopting this method and gaining its all significant benefits.

Therefore, we urge to anyone who think that they have not yet benefited from adopting this method, please to write and consult with us so that we can work together towards its ultimate success. It is also important on the part of those fortunate people who have already grasped or cognized the essence of this principles and adopted this method and able to succeed in it.

We appeal to all of them to write to us showing their remarkable examples, describing their individual experience, sharing their ingenious ways valuable insights ideas and knowledge so, (we can publish it in our next book edition) to help others who unfortunately lag behind in this method. People should come forward to establish a network of concerned people who have successfully adopted and significantly benefited from this method.

There is a need to organize study meetings debates and seminars at the grass-root levels. The social service, Health, welfare NGO'S can greatly help in this task. There is a pressing need to conduct further scientific research, statistical study on this method. Also some national and international forums and a mission to spread this information worldwide to help those who are very much in need to get rid themselves completely from their fatal alcohol addiction while still able to fully enjoy the pleasures of their blended alcohol drink forever in their life. Wishing you all the ZAD success; please write.

Yours sincerely
Victor Pais
ALCOHOLICS CUREWELL
St. Joseph Nagar, Jeppoo.
Mangalore - 575002. INDIA.

Please Note: Made some correction particularly in the Foreword title-Hari

ZAD BOOK- 2000 Preface

ZAD BOOK- 2000 Preface

The scientific method of minimizing alcohol to zero alcohol drink has been derived from my own deep personal experience, and the overall knowledge gained from other resources around. I started drinking alcohol relatively late, at the age of 33 years. But as soon as I was introduced, I developed a strong habit of it. Initially it was a small peg of 60ml. but pretty soon, within some months I required at least a minimum of 100ml., or around three Standard Alcohol drink (STD) in the evenings. This is very serious considering from the very beginning I was aware of its dangerous consequences and was very careful not to exceed the limit.

Fortunately or unfortunately; then I found an easy access and availability of alcohol at its cost price. Soon after my daily minimum shot up to 180ml. ( around 5 STD) a day, despite my trying hard and control and to limit. As soon as I took the alcohol, it carried me away from my previous resolutions and I went on drinking more and more. Year after year, the grip of alcohol habit became strong and stronger in me. At around the fifth year I became almost an alcoholic. I was probably drinking more or less around 10 drinks every day evening. The alcohol started having very obnoxious effect on my body and on my mind. I was experiencing high tolerance to alcohol, withdrawal symptoms fear psychosis health deteriorations as a whole.

There I realized for sure I am utterly failing to my family, friends and to my work. I cannot reduce, limit or control my drinking. Panic stricken, I knew the only one way to come out of this alcohol, I have seen it in many of the people whom I do know, even though I knew it is very hard, sad and difficult thing to do. I immediately stopped drinking alcohol and squarely faced its withdrawal nightmarish sleepless experience. It was for only one week then my mental and physical health stability gradually returned to normal. For more than one year I remained sober. The haunting fear of the disastrous consequences of drinking alcohol kept me away from it.

But after some time the fear started dampening. I was missing something very important in my life. I could not bear this grueling tedious boring life. I am not free to choose something that would give me little relief satisfaction comfort in life. I am forbidden to do something, which I see many people around me have all the freedom to do, apparently with no sign of alcohol weakness. If they can do it, why can't I? Only this time I must be very careful not to exceed my minimum limit of 60 ml. (around two drinks) in the evenings just for a little relax and never to cross the upper maximum limit of 100ml. a day. So; after more than one year of total abstinence, I once again started back drinking alcohol. At first 60ml., quickly my sense of determination dwindled.

Quite soon, I was drinking a minimum of 180ml. bottle every day evening. Then I was learning to live with my alcohol affliction. Some days my alcohol went up to 300-400 even 500ml. (around 15 drinks) in the evenings, but I was never really able to come down much less than the minimum 180ml. in the evening or I would get terribly restless, sleepless that night). There I have to schedule all my days' work to suit my schedule of drinking. I canceled all my evenings work appointments and other activities to facilitate my evenings drinking habit. During my whole drinking carrier, I never missed out even a single day's of alcohol (except when I totally abstained) drinking. It was such a blind faith, belief on the healing powers of alcohol adhered by supposedly a rational person like me.

Of course, I had completely stopped drinking three or four times during my entire 15 years of drinking carrier. When the situation threatened leading into extreme disaster, when I was exceeding my minimum limit three, four times more. When I became physically very weak and mentally unstable and frightened. But sooner in my sobriety I was finding the day-to-day life deadly boring. (Although I found it is very hard to stop the drinking habit because it immediately results in horrifying withdrawal syndrome. Nevertheless it becomes intriguingly much more difficult to sustain or bear the life without the drinking habit. This is why in my opinion most of the people don't even give it a try) I was missing some important part of my life, what is life worth living for? Within months I was once again back into my bad old drinking habit.

The decade long years of alcoholism started showing a telltale effect on my body and on my mind. I was desperately trying to come out of this disastrous alcohol; at the same time I could not imagine living without its support, comforts or the pleasures. It provided me relief, relaxation, fulfillment in my day-to-day life; I could neither quit nor continue with this stuff! Is there any proper alternative method to solve this monstrous alcohol problem? The contemporary alcoholism prevention treatment literatures clearly states that the only one possible solution is to completely give up alcohol, stop drinking and never drink alcohol again your life. But I was not at all ready to give it up completely because I knew I would soon relapse back into the drinking.

In my total despair finally a idea (necessity is the mother of invention) of limiting my alcohol consumption came to my mind, I was not sure and not really convinced whether it would work. However I desperately wanted to give it a try because now I had all its basic facilities (fridge, soda, cola, taste appetizer) available, then I had nothing to loose.

So first time in my alcohol-drinking carrier I consciously adopted this new alcohol drinking method to reduce my alcohol consumption. Then to my utter surprise I was able to radically reduce my alcohol from the 250ml.,(around seven drinks) of average minimum to 100ml.,(around three drinks) in the first day evening itself! This is amazing so far is the greatest and the fastest achievement in my life! I could easily continue with this drinking method for the week and into the next week without any difficulty.

In fact this method was providing me with better kind of physical and mental satisfaction and fulfillment. Then I was growing in confidence. Why not try and venture into the next reduction? There I was able to further reduce my daily minimum alcohol down to 60ml., (around two drinks) which is what I used to drink at the beginning of my alcohol-drinking carrier.

There I was feeling so happy. First of all I felt no physical or mental strains, discomfort or withdrawal in any way in reducing my alcohol consumption by this method. Truly, it was giving me far better satisfaction and fulfillment than what I used to have before. Most of all, it started improving my mental and physical health. Now the habit cost me far less in terms of my finance. In one word it improved my economical, physical and psychological health standards tremendously.

Probably; two or three months have passed since I adopted this drinking method and I had no inclination to return back to the old way of drinking practice or to increase my alcohol in any way. I would rather go forward into the opposite direction. So why not try this method still further? There I conducted the next step of reducing my alcohol step by step from this 60ml., to the minimum 20ml., a day! I made it! There was no more a surprise, but definitely I had gained a huge self-confidence. Drinking alcohol now had become a fair game, interesting gamble where you can always defeat your alcohol opponent so far as you follow its rules correctly.

The final zero alcohol drink happened quite accidentally! One day that for some reason or other, I simply forgot to drink my usual minimum quota of alcohol and went to bed to sleep. I was overjoyed in the next morning when I realized it, experiencing its final triumph. Now I knew for sure I am naturally grown to neglect or ignore alcohol in my daily life. There is no more necessity whatsoever.

Days passed into a week still I was happily continuing with my zero alcohol as happy as before. After a week of zero alcohol to make myself clear, I once again started drinking alcohol from where I left it, 20ml. daily evenings. However, I had no wish or desire to increase my alcohol. I rather minimize it from 20m., 10ml. (around one third of a standard Alcohol Drink!) which means one or two teaspoons a day in practical terms!

Then I had this reckless experiment! I drank nearly one bottle (around 18 drinks) of alcohol for the day evening (worst hangover in my life) and returned back to my zero alcohol in the following days. Believe it or not imagine a person like me who was so much addicted to alcohol for more than a decade, showing little interest (10ml.) to alcohol drink and throwing the rest of the bottle out of the window without giving it any second thoughts. I had no doubt that I have been completely cured from my alcoholism.

If this method treatment cure works on me, it should also generally work on people like me! Then why on earth all the alcohol preventions treatment health literatures, institutions, authorities proclaim that ‘opting for low-alcohol drinking, to prevent or eliminate alcoholism particularly the dependence cannot succeed or such attempts bound to fail (due to the loss or “impaired control” symptom of the alcohol dependence) if the people try it’!

They proclaim that alcoholism is a chronic disease there is no real cure for it. They contend that a alcohol dependent (diagnosed) person can not reduce or his/her alcohol consumtion to a safe minimum level. But now my new alcohol drinking method proves they are completely wrong! (Excuse me.) One can definitely reduce and minimize his alcohol even after becoming dependent to alcohol (their definition) and completely get cured of the disease without leaving any trace of it.

The most important realization that got in me is that, this would help not only those alcoholics but also those millions of alcohol drinkers belonging to every (Alcohol Use Disorder AUD) category, those people who unwittingly fall to alcohol abuse every day.

Now to cut it short., I wrote and completed its paper and published its book “A Scientific Method to Minimize Alcohol: THE ZERO ALCOHOL DRINK THEORY” in the year 2000. The rest of it, I have explained in the first introduction in this blog site so I hope so I need not repeat it in here.

Yours Sincerely

Valerian Texeira.
Alcoholics Curewell
St. Joseph Nagar
Mangalore –575002 INDIA.

PS. In this 2007 edition of this Preface I have made some corrections also deleted some portion (especially the last part) to make it more relevant to this blog edition.
Hari.

Low-Alcohol Drink Cure Alcoholism: Introduction 2007

Low-Alcohol Drinks Cure Alcoholism

Low-Alcohol Drinks (LADs) Cure Alcoholism. This quest started in the year 1999, when I first discovered that by opting to the LADs, successfully removed my fast 15 years of chronic alcohol dependence or the alcoholism. Of course this ‘wisdom remedy’ known since ancient times I only ‘re-discovered’ it with some modification and named it as the “Zero Alcohol Drink”(ZAD)* method.

*ZAD (Zero Alcohol Drink) is a relative "TERM". It points to the reduced (minimized) proportion of alcohol v/v that the drink contains. At time to time it can reach down to Zero. The Biological drinking Need (Thirst , Taste, and the stomach) Satiation (BNS) plays most important part in it. The ZAD (beverage), even when having no-alcohol in it, "represents" a replacement of that Alcohol Drink.

In the year 2000, I was able to publish its book titled: “A Scientific Method to Minimize Alcohol: THE ZERO ALCOHOL DRINK THEORY”. Its book-review got published in THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS – Science Express on Tuesday 20th June 2000; and in the UK Journal “Addiction” (April 2001) 96, pp. 657-58. Thereafter its landmark website ‘Alcoholics Curewell’ http://www.geocities.com/alcoholics_curewell was launched in the year 2003.

Today the ZAD ideas are more mature represented by its latter papers: 1). “The WHO & USDHHS Promoted World Alcoholism Mess – The Biggest World Health Blunder”; published in the year 2004 and 2). “The Zero Alcohol Drink Alcohol Detoxification Clinical Trial (ZAD-ADCT)” published in the year 2005. These two papers are based on my deep research study under the ZAD perspective especially on the subject matter of ‘Alcohol Dependence Syndrome’ popularly known as the “alcohol addiction” or “alcoholism”.

However, it is in the year 2006 that first I found out that there goes on a major scientific misconduct in the alcohol research. This discovery although born out of my ZAD thinking nevertheless was a fundamental break-through from my earlier ZAD perspective. On this account my second website < http://www.geocities.com/scientific_misconduct > launched in the year 2007, dedicated mainly to its paper publication. Its “blog” in the http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/


In this blog site I take up to publish the principle documents of my Zero Alcohol Drink (ZAD) findings, which came before in my Alcoholics-Curewell website. First comes its book titled: “A Scientific Method to Minimize Alcohol – THE ZERO ALCOHOL DRINK THEORY”. Here I publish only the first section of the book, which contains its “Preface” and the “Foreword”. Because its remains very pertinent still today in this subject matter. If any one interested in reading the rest the book please write to me and I will be sending a copy of the full book.

Thereafter, I will proceed into publishing its most important paper: “The Zero Alcohol Drink Alcohol Detoxification Clinical Trial (ZAD-ADCT)”, published in the year 2005. If any one interested in knowing about my other ZAD papers please let me know it by writing your comments in my recent posts in this blog and I will send a list or the copy of those papers.


The “ZAD BOOK –2000 Preface”, comes in the next post.


Hari or Harold is my Middle Name.