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I had been alcohol free for 3 ½ months and was attending regular A.A. meetings. I was doing all the right things to further my recovery but was feeling empty. I was literally without happiness in my life and wondered if I would ever smile again. Sure I had physical problems that were slowing my feeling of well being but this was different. I was an emotional wreck… Continue Reading »

When it comes to alcohol addiction some people can save themselves and seek the treatment necessary to live a great life of recovery. Other people are able to control their drinking on their own and continue to function normally in their daily lives like problem drinking was never a question. These are the lucky ones. Continue Reading »

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I read an article from The Mayo Clinic about a relatively new form of delivery for the medication naltrexone. As you might know, one of the medications used most often in The FreedomFromAlcohol treatment program is naltrexone, so I found this of interest. Continue Reading »

The drug baclofen has been around for many years – it is most commonly used to treat spasticity, muscle spasm and Parkinsonian tremors. Lately it has been reported that it is also being used effectively to control alcohol craving and alcohol withdrawal. Continue Reading »

THE INNER BODY
(excerpt from ‘the power of now’ by Eckhart Tolle)

. . . but that visible and tangible body is only an outer shell, or rather a limited and distorted perception of a deeper reality. in your natural state of connectedness with Being, this deeper reality can be felt every moment as the invisible inner body, the animating presence within you. So to “inhabit the body’ is to feel the body from within, to feel the life inside the body and thereby come to know that you are beyond the outer form. Continue Reading »

Diagnosis and Treatment

Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research. 24(1):67-71, January 2000.
Addolorato, Giovanni; Caputo, Fabio; Capristo, Esmeralda; Colombo, Giancarlo; Gessa, Gian Luigi; Gasbarrini, Giovanni

Abstract:
Background: Accumulating evidence shows the efficacy of the [gamma]-aminobutyric acid (GABAB) receptor against baclofen in reducing alcohol intake in rats, but no studies have been performed in alcoholics. In the present preliminary study we investigated the effect of short-term baclofen administration on craving for alcohol, ethanol intake, and abstinence from alcohol in alcoholic individuals.

Methods: Ten male current alcoholic individuals were admitted to the study. Baclofen was orally administered for 4 weeks, at a dose of 15 mg/day refracted in three times per day for the first 3 days, with the dose increased to 30 mg/day for the remaining 27 days. Each subject was checked as an outpatient every week for the 4 weeks; at each visit (T0-T4) craving level was evaluated by the Alcohol Craving Scale (ACS), and abstinence from alcohol was assessed based on the individual’s self-evaluation, family member interview, and the main biological markers of alcohol abuse. A self-reported alcohol intake was recorded as the mean number of standard drinks consumed per day.

Results: Nine subjects completed the study; of these, two subjects continued to drink alcohol although they substantially reduced their daily drinks in the first week of treatment, whereas seven maintained abstinence throughout the experimental period. Craving was significantly reduced from the first week of the drug administration (p < 0.01) and remained so throughout the entire treatment period. Participants also reported that obsessional thinking about alcohol disappeared. Values of [gamma]-glutamyltranspeptidase, alanine aminotransferase, and mean cellular volume significantly decreased by the end of the study. Tolerability was fair in all participants; headache, vertigo, nausea, constipation, diarrhea, abdominal pain, hypotension, increased sleepiness, and tiredness were present as side effects in the first stage of the treatment. No participants showed craving for the drug.

Conclusions: With the limitations of the low number of individuals evaluated and the open design, this preliminary clinical study supports the preclinical evidence on the effect of baclofen in reducing alcohol intake. The anticraving properties of the drug suggest a possible role of baclofen in the treatment of individuals with alcohol problems.

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When you, as a physician, help someone to accept Well-being enough that they allow the Well-being, whether they allow it in this physical body or whether they have to release this physical body to allow it, it’s still the same thing. In other words, they can allow the wellness into this body, or they can allow the wellness by leaving this body. But allowing the wellness is what you are assisting them in doing. Focus upon the Well-being, and see them opening and receiving it here, or opening and receiving it from Non-Physical. But focus upon the Well-being. And as you focus upon the Well-being, what we’ve noticed is, if you can get someone’s attention and you can convince them that Well-being is the order of the day—there is no illness that will not leave them in the moment that they finally get that. 3/02/02 ‘Abe Quotes’ from Jerry and Esther Hicks.

Recordings from: Jerry and Esther Hicks

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