Comments on: The Cure for Alcoholism: Drink Your Way Sober Without Willpower, Abstinence or Discomfort http://www.drugtreatmentinfo.org/the-cure-for-alcoholism-drink-your-way-sober-without-willpower-abstinence-or-discomfort/ Sat, 06 Aug 2011 11:59:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: PorkChopTze http://www.drugtreatmentinfo.org/the-cure-for-alcoholism-drink-your-way-sober-without-willpower-abstinence-or-discomfort/comment-page-1/#comment-167 PorkChopTze Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:09:58 +0000 http://www.drugtreatmentinfo.org/the-cure-for-alcoholism-drink-your-way-sober-without-willpower-abstinence-or-discomfort/#comment-167 Roy Eskapa's book is an excellent resource for anyone who wishes to change their drinking habits. I cannot recommend it too highly. Rating: 5 / 5 Roy Eskapa’s book is an excellent resource for anyone who wishes to change their drinking habits. I cannot recommend it too highly.
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> By: Lawrence J. Konis http://www.drugtreatmentinfo.org/the-cure-for-alcoholism-drink-your-way-sober-without-willpower-abstinence-or-discomfort/comment-page-1/#comment-166 Lawrence J. Konis Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:53:31 +0000 http://www.drugtreatmentinfo.org/the-cure-for-alcoholism-drink-your-way-sober-without-willpower-abstinence-or-discomfort/#comment-166 It's always amazed me how so many doctors will actually tell patients that they need to turn to God and AA to control problem drinking. Yes, it's a VERY challenging issue, but these men are supposed to be scientists in the twenty first century. Finally, an approach that takes the superstition out of the equation. I have been coaching friends in this method and am quite impressed. The book is not particularly well written, but it's good enough. If you simply cannot accept the hocus-pocus cult mentality for dealing with your problems, you should give this a shot. Rating: 5 / 5 It’s always amazed me how so many doctors will actually tell patients that they need to turn to God and AA to control problem drinking. Yes, it’s a VERY challenging issue, but these men are supposed to be scientists in the twenty first century. Finally, an approach that takes the superstition out of the equation. I have been coaching friends in this method and am quite impressed. The book is not particularly well written, but it’s good enough.
If you simply cannot accept the hocus-pocus cult mentality for dealing with your problems, you should give this a shot.
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> By: Kristin Costello http://www.drugtreatmentinfo.org/the-cure-for-alcoholism-drink-your-way-sober-without-willpower-abstinence-or-discomfort/comment-page-1/#comment-165 Kristin Costello Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:27:27 +0000 http://www.drugtreatmentinfo.org/the-cure-for-alcoholism-drink-your-way-sober-without-willpower-abstinence-or-discomfort/#comment-165 If you are suffering from addiction this book is a must read. This is a very reader friendly guide concerning struggling with the challenges of addiction, one that offers the reader a bold new 'passport' to hope and recovery. Here's a clue. . . it ain't willpower. Wishing you love and happiness. Kris Wellness TalkRadio AM1440 Rating: 5 / 5 If you are suffering from addiction this book is a must read. This is a very reader friendly guide concerning struggling with the challenges of addiction, one that offers the reader a bold new ‘passport’ to hope and recovery. Here’s a clue. . . it ain’t willpower. Wishing you love and happiness.
Kris Wellness TalkRadio AM1440
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> By: Michael W. Sturdevant http://www.drugtreatmentinfo.org/the-cure-for-alcoholism-drink-your-way-sober-without-willpower-abstinence-or-discomfort/comment-page-1/#comment-164 Michael W. Sturdevant Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:20:01 +0000 http://www.drugtreatmentinfo.org/the-cure-for-alcoholism-drink-your-way-sober-without-willpower-abstinence-or-discomfort/#comment-164 You could quit a whole lot cheaper by not buying or drinking the alcohol that he "prescribes" and just taking naltrexone. By the way, naltrexone is also used in medical rehab facilities to cut cravings of cocaine. Should we also recommend that the cocaine addict continue using cocaine? This is a potentially dangerous message to deliver to any serious alcoholic: Follow the method in this book and you will achieve a lasting sobriety. As with most dangerous methods, there are slivers attached: naltrexone does work to cut down alcoholic cravings. But make no mistake about it: while this book may get you sober, you cannot stay sober following its message. Every serious alcoholic has, underlying his drinking, a disease called alcoholism: an obsession to drink caused by living for, by, and through SELF. There are countless alcoholics who are literally dying to quit, but they cannot, OF THEMSELVES, overcome the obsession: it is inscribed on their very beings, their selves, their minds, their wills. Some will follow this course and succeed. . . for a time. It's called mind over matter. Note the many positive reviews here. But the sobriety will not last. It cannot last, because it does not treat the disease of alcoholism, a mental illness with no known cure. This method will only help to cut down cravings. Every meaningful thing in life requires maintenance. Every skill, every relationship, every attitude. Anyone who seriously wants to get sober and stay sober will go to Alcoholics Anonymous. If medical-nutritional approaches had worked, then why have doctors been saying for hundreds of years, that they have no solution for alcoholism? Why does every rehab program prepare its participants for a 12-step program after rehab? It's a spiritual disease; it requires a spiritual solution. This is, emphatically, not what you're looking for. Rating: 1 / 5 You could quit a whole lot cheaper by not buying or drinking the alcohol that he “prescribes” and just taking naltrexone. By the way, naltrexone is also used in medical rehab facilities to cut cravings of cocaine. Should we also recommend that the cocaine addict continue using cocaine?

This is a potentially dangerous message to deliver to any serious alcoholic: Follow the method in this book and you will achieve a lasting sobriety. As with most dangerous methods, there are slivers attached: naltrexone does work to cut down alcoholic cravings. But make no mistake about it: while this book may get you sober, you cannot stay sober following its message.

Every serious alcoholic has, underlying his drinking, a disease called alcoholism: an obsession to drink caused by living for, by, and through SELF. There are countless alcoholics who are literally dying to quit, but they cannot, OF THEMSELVES, overcome the obsession: it is inscribed on their very beings, their selves, their minds, their wills. Some will follow this course and succeed. . . for a time. It’s called mind over matter. Note the many positive reviews here. But the sobriety will not last. It cannot last, because it does not treat the disease of alcoholism, a mental illness with no known cure. This method will only help to cut down cravings.

Every meaningful thing in life requires maintenance. Every skill, every relationship, every attitude. Anyone who seriously wants to get sober and stay sober will go to Alcoholics Anonymous. If medical-nutritional approaches had worked, then why have doctors been saying for hundreds of years, that they have no solution for alcoholism? Why does every rehab program prepare its participants for a 12-step program after rehab?

It’s a spiritual disease; it requires a spiritual solution. This is, emphatically, not what you’re looking for.

Rating: 1 / 5

]]> By: N. Townsend http://www.drugtreatmentinfo.org/the-cure-for-alcoholism-drink-your-way-sober-without-willpower-abstinence-or-discomfort/comment-page-1/#comment-163 N. Townsend Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:01:43 +0000 http://www.drugtreatmentinfo.org/the-cure-for-alcoholism-drink-your-way-sober-without-willpower-abstinence-or-discomfort/#comment-163 One could probably successfully promote a pet product or cause without insulting a similiar product. For instance calling the program of AA "voodoo" which relies on "superstition". . . . is that really necessary ? Anyone who is familiar with AA knows that there's a lot of work involved in remaining sober. It demands a thorough self assessment of personality flaws, guilts, fears and other triggers of substance abuse. The very idea of using a drug to "cure" oneself of alcohol/drug abuse is the antithesis of AA. I'm responding to the reviews of this book. I haven't read it. Perhaps it's unfair of me to comment on it, but I will anyhow. I don't believe it will work longterm. The public is flooded with "Get ----- quick" gimmicks. Get rich quick. Get thin quick. Learn a language quick. etc. Laziness ? So I can drink myself silly while taking a pill and BINGO !, I'm sober. Think I'll stick with AA. Rating: 1 / 5 One could probably successfully promote a pet product or cause without insulting a similiar product.
For instance calling the program of AA “voodoo” which relies on “superstition”. . . . is that really necessary ?
Anyone who is familiar with AA knows that there’s a lot of work involved in remaining sober.
It demands a thorough self assessment of personality flaws, guilts, fears and other triggers
of substance abuse.
The very idea of using a drug to “cure” oneself of alcohol/drug abuse is the antithesis
of AA.
I’m responding to the reviews of this book. I haven’t read it. Perhaps it’s unfair of me to
comment on it, but I will anyhow. I don’t believe it will work longterm.
The public is flooded with “Get —– quick” gimmicks. Get rich quick. Get thin quick. Learn a language quick. etc.
Laziness ?
So I can drink myself silly while taking a pill and BINGO !, I’m sober.
Think I’ll stick with AA.
Rating: 1 / 5

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