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The Cure for Alcoholism: Drink Your Way Sober Without Willpower, Abstinence or Discomfort |  | Author: Roy Eskapa Ph.D.
Creator: David Sinclair
Publisher: BenBella Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 22840
Media: Paperback
Pages: 319
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 1933771550
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.861061
EAN: 9781933771557
ASIN: 1933771550
Publication Date: October 1, 2008
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Introducing a revolutionary solution to alcohol dependence, this study outlines the Sinclair Method, a treatment that combines the prescription medication Naltrexone and the continued consumption of alcohol. Already well known in many parts of Europe, this breakthrough remedy will bring relief to the millions who suffer from addiction or to those who are affected by someone else’s. Topics covered include the hard evidence behind the treatment, moving testimonials from cured alcoholics, interviews from clinics that have adopted the method, and details about Naltrexone.
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 I have my life back August 17, 2010
Reader (Saugus, Ca United States)
The Sinclair Method works, plain and simple. I read the one star reviews and clearly these were written by people who didn't do the Sinclair Method. If you've quit drinking don't buy this book because you don't need it. But if you drink and want to lose the craving for alcohol do the Sinclair Method. The book explains how it works in detail and it makes total sense. You can visit [...] and read results from hundreds of people that have cured themselves using the Sinclair Method. It worked for me!
Terrific Book August 15, 2010
Kelli Malcolm, Esq., Author of "Sidestepping the 12 Steps"
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
"The Cure for Alcoholism" is a breath of fresh air in the treatment world of alcohol addiction. This book is an easy to read analysis of a new paradigm for alcohol treatment based upon solid medical research. It brings to light the economic realities of the "treatment industry" and provides a thoughtful analysis of how alcohol addiction can be cured. I enjoyed the case studies, the easy to follow format for using naltrexone and the author's courage to go against the traditional cultural mindset that alcoholism cannot be cured.
Kelli Malcolm, Esq.
Author of "Sidestepping the 12 Steps"
THIS BOOK SAVED MY LIFE! June 14, 2010
JRM (Elyria, Ohio)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you truly need help in conquering alcoholism for yourself or for someone you love, PLEASE buy this book. This is the only one you need. I personally was at wits end, having tried AA, nutritional/vitamin therapy, reading everything I could on how to beat alcoholism - there are MANY MANY approaches to beating the disease - but none of which worked for me, UNTIL I READ THIS BOOK. I have averaged 120 drinks per week for the last 5 years, and it wasn't too much better for the 15 years of drinking before that. The method described in this book (taking one pill a day) is a MIRACLE! The inner monsters controlling my behavior and forcing me to drink are gone!! NO MORE INNER DEMONS!! I thank God for the authors, they have saved my life!!!
By the way: The title is 100% true! There is no need for willpower, abstinence, or withdrawal discomfort. It is as simple as taking one pill a day - what could be easier. That is why I also recommend it for anyone who you love who has no desire to quit - if they can take one pill a day, then they can see their drinking dwindle down to nothing over the course of a few months and they won't even realize what happened!! THIS METHOD CAN SAVE COUNTLESS FAMILIES AND LIVES.
An Excellent Resource April 5, 2010
Kenneth Anderson (New York, NY)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Roy Eskapa's book is an excellent resource for anyone who wishes to change their drinking habits. I cannot recommend it too highly.
This Book Saved My Life April 3, 2010
Norma K. Leese (Seattle, WA USA)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Written by Ben.
My Personal Experience With The Sinclair Method, as described in "The Cure For Alcoholism" by Roy Eskapa:
Before I discovered The Sinclair Method and "The Cure For Alcoholism" by Roy Eskapa, I was a late-stage chronic alcoholic who binged in such an extreme way that I had to be hospitalized after every binge. I drank upwards of a half-gallon of 100-proof vodka per day on binges, and my withdrawal was so severe it required hourly administration of valium by I.V. and two to three days in the hospital.
I could never stay sober longer than a couple of months, despite eleven trips to inpatient "treatment" consisting of abstinence and indoctrination with A.A.'s "spiritual program". I was in terrible shape. In September I was in Intensive Care at Seattle's Harborview Medical Center after a drinking-related esophageal bleeding so severe I required a blood transfusion. My family were making plans for what to do when I died of alcoholism, which everyone believed would be soon. Then I discovered "The Cure For Alcoholism" online, after I had already been on naltrexone for months with instructions to abstain. AS SOON AS I BEGAN TO USE NALTREXONE IN THE PROPER WAY DESCRIBED IN ROY ESKAPA'S BOOK, I BEGAN TO GET BETTER IMMEDIATELY. I have not been hospitalized or had any alcohol-related problems since the day I began The Sinclair Method.
I have now been using The Sinclair Method for four months, and I am delighted with the results. My drinking is down dramatically from where it was, and I have been able to see my 74-year-old mother through two surgeries, and also move her into a new apartment, all while using TSM. In the past, if I had had even one drink, I would have been totally unable to help her. She loves the Sinclair Method, as does my brother. Now they are confident I will live and thrive, as they see me get better every day.
Why The Sinclair Method Is Not More Well-Known:
There are three main reasons that the that the Sinclair Method is not widely known in the U.S. and other countries already: money, the counter-intuitive nature of The Sinclair Method, and religion. First of all, 12-step treatment in America is a multi-billion dollar industry with a vast, established infrastructure. If it were widely known that a readily available medication and an inexpensive book were all that was needed to cure alcoholism, a lot of jobs and revenue would be lost. It certainly could have saved me tens of thousands of dollars in treatment costs over a period of 25 years, and I'm just one person. And, ironically, while all that 12-Step treatment was expensive, it did nothing to help me. I was in and out of detox, hospitals and treatment for years, and nearly died last September after a horrible binge landed me in intensive care for three days. Fortunately, it was the last binge I ever went on, because a few weeks later I discovered The Sinclair Method. I am happier and healthier than I have ever been in my adult life, and my family is overjoyed.
The second reason that The Sinclair Method is so underreported is that the idea of advising patients to take naltrexone while continuing to drink alcohol is profoundly counter-intuitive. It just doesn't seem like drinking could ever be part of a cure for alcoholism. But The Sinclair Method is based on scientific research and evidence. Anyone who knows anything about science knows that a. the only reason to think something true in science is evidence, and b. there are plenty of counterintuitive theories and facts in science. It never matters what something seems like in science. What matters is what the evidence demonstrates. And, in the case of The Sinclair Method, the evidence conclusively proves that naltrexone + drinking = cure, in 78-80% of alcoholics studied. I am one of the majority for whom this method, pharmacological extinction, works.
The third reason T.S.M. is unknown to so many is that 12-Step programs are hugely popular because they validate the religious convictions of many Americans and others. Alcoholics Anonymous is centered around submission to a supernatural god, just like Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. A.A. was born out of The Oxford Group movement, a Christian sect later renamed "Moral Rearmament". I was in A.A. for two decades. They claim not to be religious, but any group that teaches people that they are incompetent to run their own lives, and that only by turning one's "will and life over to God" and "the fellowship of A.A." can they hope to recover from alcoholism, or behave in morally and ethically sound ways, is, by definition, religious; whether or not Alcoholics Anonymous will admit it is religious is irrelevant. A.A. fits the dictionary definition of religion. Many people believe that The Big Book of A.A., written 75 years ago, is the final word on alcoholism. Fortunately David Sinclair and many other scientists were unsatisfied with that claim, since the success rate for 12-Step treatment of alcoholism is 10-15 percent.
Many doctors are unaware that the prevalent protocol of combining abstinence with naltrexone has been debunked as ineffective. The documented evidence is in the book. I had to educate my own doctor. She is one of the finest doctors in the Harborview Medical Center system, and yet even she believed naltrexone worked with abstinence, until I showed her the evidence to the contrary by loaning her my copy of "The Cure For Alcoholism". Since, thankfully, she has an evidence-based worldview, she read the book and prescribed more naltrexone for me, knowing that I would use it according to the instructions in Dr. Eskapa's book.
Conclusion:
Thanks to Roy Eskapa's book, and the work of David Sinclair and the other researchers involved in developing the cure for alcoholism, I am no longer on a treadmill, endlessly going from binge to hospital to brief period dry, and finally back to the next binge to start the next cycle. The Sinclair Method has saved me and my family from any more alcoholic nightmares, and outright saved my life.
For any alcoholic who has found it impossible to limit or stop his or her drinking, "The Cure For Alcoholism" is an excellent introduction to this astounding, but under-reported, medical breakthrough. Highly recommended.
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