IntIce:Little Known Cure 1 of 4

A YouTube adaption of Intellectual Iceberg's segment from 2005 on a cure for alcoholism called "The Sinclair Method" or "Pharamcological Extinction".

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• alcoholism
• pharacological
• extinction
• sinclair
• method

[Mythobeast]

It would work, but it would also tend to make you loose interest in the good behaviors that endorphins encourage, like exercise or sex. Be sure to take a weekend (or a few week days) off from naltrexone every now and then to do the good behaviors, and It'll make the process more effective and have fewer side effects.

[gamerdaddy]

I'm an alcoholic. I've been looking for medicines to help me since last month. I've tried AA many times during the last 12 years, not succeeding at all. The longest time I managed to stay away from alcohol was about 3 months...

I'm looking forward to start using Naltrexone!!!

In Brazil most of the medical comunity has NEVER heard of it, so my problem is simply getting a prescription.

I wonder how long it will take to start making effect, cause I drink once a week, like idgvdfvdsfhvdf said.

[Mythobeast]

@gamerdaddy, That's a good question. Naltrexone has two benefits while drinking. The first is to decrease the happy-joyful feeling that causes many alcoholics to overdrink. This benefit is immediate, and should kick in as soon as you start taking naltrexone an hour before drinking. The other is a long-term rewiring of the brain to consider alcohol less compelling an option. This takes two to three month for daily drinkers, but I don't know about weekly drinking. I'll have to ask.

[Mythobeast]

Isegoria, while I'm loathe to block anyone, your arguments are inflammatory, self contradictory, and don't make much sense. I'm not even sure that you realize that he's contradicting yourself. Maxwell speaks from an obvious point of experience. The Sinclair Method has no dogma (although some are trying to create some for it). I'll be deleting your comments until such time as you start writing intelligently.

[Mythobeast]

I'm sorry, but your comments don't actually make sense. The genetics involved determine how much endorphin the person's body releases when they drink, and how strongly they react to that endorphin. The problem with alcoholism isn't why they start but why they can't stop.

[m015094]

Naltrexone is great. I would recommend it to anyone trying to stop drinking.

One thing that I do worry about is what would happen if I was ever involved in an accident and I needed pain meds.  The Naltrexone would make the anesthesiologists job a bit more difficult.

[smcoxmd]

I am a clinical psychiatrist. When I heard about this I thought, "This can't work. It is too good to be true. But I tried it and it does work very well about 75% of people who try it. It is also extremely inexpensive. No detox. No hospitalization cost. The medicine went generic years ago. You must buy this book and read it with an open mind. It only fails in 12% of people who give it a chance.

[gamerdaddy]

Here I am, back to the comments on this vid to tell u guys that I'm completing two months taking Naltrexone through the Sinclair Method. Guess what? IT SEEMS TO BE REALLY WORKING!!!

When I started taking it, each one of my drinking sessions used to last for at least 24 hours. My last 5 drinking sessions lasted less than 6 hours! SIX HOURS!

I'm aware it can be self-suggestion, but who cares? It is working!

But I'm not taking the pattern dose anymore (50 mg). I'm taking 100mg. Whatever, it works!

[gamerdaddy]

@Mythobeast But what if I take Naltrexone everyday and, when Friday comes, I take it one hour before start drinking?

Wouln't I avoid craving and still have the benefits of the Sinclair Method!?

[minneapolisnick]

It totally worked for me and hundreds of others. See for yourself at The Sinclair Method message board, a free, not-for-profit site.

[funkiwi44]

The book I refer to is The Cure for Alcoholism by Roy Eskapa, PhD.

Thanks for uploading this video!

[funkiwi44]

The Sinclair Method is working for me now, despite my efforts at treatment initially being severly hampered by the New Zealand Health Board, which refuses to allow prescriptions of naltrexone to be issued to people unless they adhere to an abstinence programme. A CADS counsellor wouldn't agree to let me have naltrexone until I had stopped drinking, which after a struggle, I did. After two months of abstinence, I stopped taking naltrexone and started drinking again. Then I found this book. Cured!

[idgvdfvdsfhvdf]

Good point. But since Naltrexone is taken only before you drink, pain meds are a problem for the first few months of treatment. After a few months & the cure takes place, drinking becomes sporadic and Naltrexone use isn't used every day. At the time of this post, I only have a few beers 1 day a week, so I only take Naltrexone 1 day per week. Therefore, my exposure to pain medication problems is 1 out of 7 in any random week. Extinction continues & drinking will become even less in the future..