Original story I find this story both encouraging and discouraging, for different reasons. Encouraging because of the promise of effective treatemnts not only for alcoholism, but for many other addictive disorders. Discouraging because it once again shows how much of health care is tied to money. This drug may have other uses, but they may never be found because it is about to go off patent and so the company can't make as much on it, so why bother looking? One would think that an organization like the NHS would have enough of an incentive to support this research to find the funding.
I still don't get this. To solve addiction they make you take another substance. Such as smoking and NRT. Surely it is much better to solve the real problem, the mental addiction? Taking smoking again, nicotine is not very addictive. The cravings of nicotine are a slight empty feeling in your stomach. Yet when people stop smoking they get the shakes, get angry, upset etc. When people get hypnotised they dont suffer these, just the minor empty feeling of nictone withdrawl. As the mental addiction has been addressed.
Or heroine and methadone. I have a psychological theory that withdrawal should be hard. It is a choice you make, a purgatory ritual you go through. At the end you come out a new, clean, stronger person. You have put your old ways behind you. You value your achievement and feel better about yourself. No pain, no gain. Looking for the easy option means you are not committed at all.
Nexxo have you read alan carr's easyway? It really really worked for me, and was painless. It just made me realise how stupid the mental addiction was and how pathetic the physical addiction was too.
Sounds like a motivational interviewing/NLP technique. In this case, the thing that hurt was your pride.
Not really NLP, more like repitative self hypnosis and nothing hurt. The guy is a legend among ex smokers. Branson quit with his help and now offers discount to all staff members who smoke.
