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Cure for Alcoholism: The Medically Proven Way to Eliminate Alcohol Addiction

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Finally, there is a cure for alcoholism. This is the first step.Featuring new and updated information and studies, including an introduction by actress Claudia Christian, the second edition of The Cure for Alcoholism delivers exactly what millions of alcoholics and families of alcoholics have been hoping a painless, dignified, and medically proven cure for their addiction. Backed by 82 clinical trials and research that extends back to 1964, The Sinclair Method deploys an opiate-blocking medication in a very specific way-in combination with ongoing drinking-to extinguish the addictive "software" in the brain. The de-addiction process rolls back the addictive mechanism in the brain to its original pre-addicted state-before the first drink was consumed, making this program an actual cure for alcoholism.Drs. Roy Eskapa and David Sinclair of The Sinclair Method have put together a sound scientific book that proves that with this particular method, alcoholism can be cured in more than 78 percent of patients. What's more, the treatment avoids the dangerous withdrawal symptoms, allowing patients to detox gradually and safely while they are still drinking. This removes the need for expensive and unpleasant inpatient rehabilitation programs. Actual drinking levels and cravings automatically decrease until control over alcohol is restored. The bottom line is that patients can control their drinking or stop altogether with the simple yet powerful process outlined in The Cure for Alcoholism.Including a new introduction by actress Claudia Christian about The Sinclair Method's impact on her life, updated trial information, and a letter explaining the treatment that can be given to doctors by patients, The Cure for Alcoholism is a revolutionary book for anyone who wants to gain control over drinking.

369 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 2008

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July 6, 2013
This book carefully walks you through the origin, the efficacy, and the method of The Sinclair Method: a drug called naltrexone. Naltrexone allows you to continue drinking while simultaneously curing alcoholism--it prevents endorphins from being released such that when you drink, after a short time you no longer crave more. As long as you take a naltrexone pill before every drink, the pill will prevent the cravings.

Eskapa provides all the statistics you could ever wish to prove the efficacy of naltrexone. For example and most importantly, success rates with naltrexone are 78% or higher in curing alcohol addiction than current methods, which sit around 10-15%. Is that incredible or what?

We get various stories from several people for whom naltrexone has saved their lives, including actress Claudia Christian, who writes the witty introduction to the book. Furthermore, Eskapa lists what he calls the human costs of alcoholism-- all of the statistics and facts that will scare your pants off. For example, 1.8 million people die every year from alcoholism, it costs $187 billion per year, and 20% of suicides were alcoholics. You cannot keep living like this; The Sinclair Method can help.

The most helpful part of Eskapa's book, however, is that it explains precisely how you go about starting The Sinclair Method and has a section for physicians to understand how to help their patients begin the medicine. This book is the perfect start to curing alcoholism, and every alcoholic should give it a read in hopes of taking their lives back.
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July 17, 2017
This is real, works as advertised, has been available as a treatment for 20 years and yet has not caught on here in the U.S. It pains me to think of all of the lives that could have been saved and all of the lives that will not be saved simply because this sounds too good to be true. It doesn't fit into the current addiction treatment paradigm and a whole bunch of people will be looking for other employment when this finally catches on.

If interested in learning more check out Claudia Christian's biography "Babylon Confidential" and look for videos on YouTube from both Claudia and David Sinclair related to the "Sinclair Method"
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July 30, 2019
Okay so I used the audible version, narrated by Claudia Christian rather than the paperback, but it wasn't abridged, and it wasn't one I could stop listening to either. The subject of The Sinclair Method has fascinated me for five years, and learning more about the methodology and the history of this treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder was what motivated me to pick up the book. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a way to give up alcohol who hasn't succeeded or doesn't think they can succeed on the traditional abstinence methods.
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December 16, 2019
We may one day hail Sinclair (and Roy !!) as saints

My family has a long history of alcohol abuse and I myself I would like to drink much more healthily. UK health practitioners and experts need to be aware of this book and the Sinclair cure for alcoholism method. Thank you so much to Dr John Sinclair and to Roy Eskappa
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October 10, 2020
Imagine me a steely eyed trained killer discussing love and help must really be a great book!

Excellent Book, Great Job Roy. I am sending a copy to the President.

Very well written, presented with facts, experiences touching all aspects of the impact of what Alcohol what addiction has done. The book is fantastic, and I will now today have two favorite books both read today…

This book discusses how we are all affected as a society down to our family what addiction consist of but most importantly what RECOVERY consist of and that it is NOW POSSIBLE because there is A PLAN: A CURE.

As I have been saying for years and years as you will read in my writings addiction is addiction whether that is in running marathons, sex, smoking, alcohol, tweeting or gambling just to name few they are a chemical imbalance in the body and some DNA are more prone to it than others. Its SCIENCE. Now we have available A PLAN: A CURE, a scientifically documented CURE. A plan the person manages, not electrocuted with ignorance into them or humiliated that they are not praying hard enough but a Scientific COA also known as a Protocol.

The only thing I see that could be changed is more marketing and each chapter I felt was the ending of the book but perhaps people read what they can and leave the rest but I encourage everyone to read it all the way through. Please BUY a few copies and send them to all your family and friends because we all know someone who knows someone who has an addiction “…but by love serve one another”. (Gal 5)

I understand it’s hard when the big companies own so much influence while our once beautiful friends turn tricks with bums behind dumpsters for a drink or spend their days and nights collecting junk just to make a little money so they can have the next spin, or run their feet to mush because they cannot control the shakes, the bells that ring demanding they salivate, the voices and internal science that drives them do what is being demanded.

So how do you help CURE a person who does not want to stop or does not think they have a problem or no money for the medicine? Thank you, President TRUMP, once again a smart man giving money and changing the direction of the fleet of ships, changing the tide of the ocean and the way society is handling issues that affect us all.

Someone’s family killed in a car accident from a drunk driver, someone not able to afford bread for their children... yes we are ALL AFFECTED “A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump” (Gal 5), even the most powerful person in the world; the President of the United States; Donald J. Trump and his family who lost a son, brother, a dad but ultimately, the election of our President maybe the experience that may help us all.

Hasn't President Trump long ago signed The CARE ACT. Read it, ask yourself why didn’t the Ambulance Medic that went to the police call for George Floyd give him the NARCAN! The state took the money where was the care! Wake UP PEOPLE! Do you really not think a social worker can help on Police calls. We have turned the wrong way and are now righting the wrongs. Let us all treat each other with respect and try the new ways, it could be us surely we will be measured with the same ruler. Read and pay attention you will soon see how the world turns and what you can do to make even the smallest butterfly wing impact.

https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issu...

GET HELP now while people have the support needed. Save your life and those around you.

It has been so long since I read such a well presented positive language detailed book written to help, written to be understood and supported with facts, evidence and true stories. Where are the Environmental Biologist?

A personal story: I was addicted to Coke Cola, I lived on it, one after the other, everyone noticed, I loved it, with chopped ice or warm, days old didnt matter I drank it. I could never get enough it did not matter what anyone said… battery acid etc. I told my mother:

{ KJV Luke 11 24 “When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first”. In other words shall I give up Coke and start drinking alcohol. }

Then COVID19 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...) officially
hit and I researched well a long story, made very short I started taking ½ teaspoon of Baking Soda in a little water every day and within 3 days immediately I noticed I did not even drink the coke I had poured... what is this? I wondered. I tested myself. I researched more, I opened my chemistry books and looked at structures and formulas... What is coke made of... (saltz) read the label! I do not eat salt at all on anything even the Army removed the salt bottle from tables long long ago. We are made up of the chemicals of the Earth; The A-da-mu, The red clay earthling Made from the planet. If we have issues we need to get back to the basics. I wonder how Addictions and Cancer rates have progressed since the absence of salt. Now there is a PhD topic.

The basis of All cold medication is Baking Soda aka Sodium Bi Carbonate which was also once touted as the CURE for CANCER here is a more modern hidden version:

{“TILA-TACE is undoubtedly a successful working example of translational medicine. More important, we should pay attention to sodium bicarbonate, a low-cost and ordinary alkalescent antacid, as a novel cancer treatment strategy. In this mini review, we will summarize the effects of acidic microenvironment on tumor development, followed by a review of the findings from preclinical studies investigating the therapeutic effects of sodium bicarbonate alone or in combination with other anticancer therapies on cancer. Finally, we discuss its feasible applications in treating various malignancies.” } (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...)

Until big industry stops influencing our science ... What are Tums? who can prove the basics of even how your cells have a Sodium Potassium pump or how nothing lives in a salt solution but when you go to the hospital what is the IV bag?. How can anything live in high concentrations of The Great Salt Lake or the Dead Sea, but have they not found life, even gold moves. Biology 101.

This has been … adjusted just go read this very deep rabbit hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_...


So, wake up people share the information and read read read so we can help each other live happy healthy lives. Again, Buy a few books and send them out WITH LOVE. If anyone knows how to send this as an audiobook already paid for so no decisions or tech equipment knowledge required, please tell me. I have a cousin who cannot read, another who is passed out by noon every day and me well I love them and I read easily a book a day but still addiction is addiction, who is to say which is good and which is bad. Read the wisdom of Chinese Man, Son and Horse.

President Trumps addiction has fueled the worlds industries, helped many to make their fortunes. Have you ever seen so many people write a book about what they think they know about President Trump, even books from his family and people you have never heard of.. It is called getting on board The Trump Train there is so much wealth being generated he is the most positive person I have ever seen meanwhile really The Donald suffers from something inside him that is repeating the same statement over and over its called addiction. Marathon runners generate revenue for the Cancers they suffer.

Even for me the more I read the worse my spelling is. The harder it is for me to talk to the "normal" person as I criticize my mother for not listening or understanding as I try to explain the basis for my theories and my brother what do you mean you do not read....

Imagine being in Mensa and reading so much every day and even these writings I make sure are written below the 12th level when I have a doctorate education just so people can relate and understand. In moments I have thousands of words with pages of references and oh wait it’s just a few stars. It can be exhausting all the while my brain saying you are wasting time writing to people stop and go read something else. Yes people read read read read more. I have started to hire people to put together reading lists of books on subjects because I am going through the books so fast. Imagine the costs of Audible Premium Plus every 2 months, Kindle Unlimited, Apple iBook, Walmart Books etc. I am on Goodreads now so it can help me keep track of all I have read so that I can choose to read it over again verses buying the book and realize I have already read it and the book is somewhere in one of my book storage locations. I am sure you will see on some books I have indicated 2x, 3x, 4x reading but that can even be embarrassing as if I did not understand the first time around but really I have already ripped the book apart in the typical Professor fashion.

I love books and knowledge it is never enough but eventually what happened to John I know will happen to me.

Insight:
All of that could have been a lying addiction and now I have lost my job because I am not trustworthy or it could be true and I cannot stop talking about all the books and different topics so I got fired and no longer have friends because I never stop talking yes a talking addiction … do you see how these addictions can touch all lives in every possible fashion.

But ... now there is a CURE to help me, help you, help us ALL. Can you see how even this basic topic of reading can grow into a problem well this author Roy Eskapa, PhD., discusses the science, the stigmas of a whole country, a whole family to the individual prone to addictions and their DNA. DNA modified mice to be alcoholics… imagine our young boys with porn, people with video games and the author discusses it all yes even interviews with rapist begging to be castrated so NOW there is no reason to hide be embarrassed or judge but instead get help and help those around you.

So now you know why that ancient book said
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

Help each other because we don’t know what people manage in their daily lives and this book may help them and helping them helps us all.
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342 reviews
April 4, 2018
Ten years after the book was written, deep into an opioid crisis in our country, still hardly anyone knows about nor is using this miracle “cure” for alcoholism, opioid addiction, cocaine addiction, obesity, gambling, and on and on? That’s suspect, at best. And there is no “cure.” Even if you can buy in completely to the concept of the book, you’d have to admit that there’s no “cure” to addiction unless you consider regular intake of insulin to be a “cure” for diabetes.

It wouldn’t be a bad read because the idea is compelling, albeit exceptionally overstated. However, the book is exceedingly redundant.

Skip it, watch a YouTube video about The Sinclair Method by Claudia Christian, and spend the rest of your time actually learning about how the typical person who is addicted behaves. The time will be better spent.
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7 reviews
July 28, 2018
If you, or anyone you know, are adversely affected by AUD or alcoholism, I can't recommend this book enough. The Sinclair method is life changing, life saving and woefully unknown in a world ravaged by alcohol and it's effects.
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December 19, 2020
Grateful to have found this book

This book- and method- stands far & away above any thing else I read & tried. It’s only been three weeks, and I’ve made incredible progress in my drinking patterns/behaviours.
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3 reviews
November 13, 2021
This needs to be shouted from roof in tops: Naltrexone plus drinking equals cure. It's simply tragic that patent politics has prevented pharmacological extinction from being more well known in the medical community and general population.
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6 reviews
January 29, 2026
Very informative book regarding a relatively unknown treatment for AUD. For decades there have been very limited treatments that involve white knuckling through cravings to overcome Alcohol use disorder. Now Dr Sinclair offers another avenue that has shown to be 70 to 80% effective, much more private, and simpler in many ways than traditional programs. This book could save lives.
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125 reviews
February 12, 2023
If they edited out the repetition, it would be about 40 or 50 pages. But the science is remarkable. And even more remarkable is that this method is still not mainstream.
123 reviews
May 6, 2025
good book in regards to the treatment but truly could have been a paper rather than a book.
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