![]() ![]() By the 10th day, the patient feels a very strong aversion to alcohol. The aversion part has the patient starting at a low level of drinking alcohol following an aversion drug. ![]() There is a Detox unit if necessary, or just the straight 10 days of therapy. There are qualified doctors and nurses on staff, along with SA counselors (who are also available to you for AFTERCARE following the 10 days). 10 days stay there includes 5 days of sedation therapy and 5 days of aversion therapy. Schick Shadel uses Aversion Therapy and it is the most effective treatment plan in the U.S. Since I understand that alcoholism has a genetic component, whatever they do must be pretty strong juju.Īnybody here have experience with Schick Shadel? What did they do? How well did it work?[/QUOT Here’s one: “Just don’t drink.” I know at least a dozen alcoholics (one is me) who made that one work for a month or three.Įvery morning, about the time I turn onto May Valley Road, the local radio station broadcasts a spot for Schick Shadel Hospital, which claims that in just ten days they can, well, cure alcoholism.īut they’re a tad reticent about what method they use, exactly. If success is measured as days or even a few months without drink, then I can recommend a number of cheap and even free ways to do that. If the program in question allows people to live a pleasant life, and still be dry after a couple of years, then I’d say it is successful. That done, staying sober is no feat at all. The trick is for the alcoholic to learn to enjoy his life without alcohol. Some of strong will can maintain such a state for months or even more than a year, but they will not be pleasant company most of that time. Without such skills, the dry alcoholic is frequently, as they say in AA, restless, irritable, and discontent. ![]() These skills will not typically be learned well enough to stay sober in less than a many months at least, and often well over a year, and then honed through maintenance and practice throughout life. Long term sobriety depends on acquiring sufficient skills to deal with life’s ups and downs without needing to escape into drunken oblivion. it is only a matter of time before the dry alcoholic picks up a bottle again. Without tools other than alcohol to deal with shame, resentment, fear, anger, etc. Many, probably most, alcoholics drink to escape unpleasant emotions. ![]() This seldom, if ever, works out well, because by the time treatment is sought, an alcoholic will usually have lost all ability to limit his consumption, and no, there doesn’t seem to be a way to restore that ability.Įven if they don’t decide they are “cured,” many will end up drinking again if they maintain their old habits and ways of thinking and dealing with others. It is not uncommon for them to decide that they are now cured, and can therefore safely drink in moderation. If an alcoholic has not done major damage to internal organs, then they will start feeling pretty healthy around 2-3 months dry, and memories of hangovers and blackouts start to mellow with age, and sleep patterns start to normalize. When you get to define “cure” then your success rate can be very high. However, I doubt many programs do the 30-day hospitalizations that were common (or at least not uncommon) when I was in training (I feel old, thinking about the days before HMO-forced discharges!)Īs long as relapses don’t count, alcoholism can be cured in one day. Ten days does seem brief, especially since the first 2-3 days are often spent under sedation to reduce the risk of withdrawal seizures in the first 48 hours or so (uncommon, but still one of the leading causes of seizures in the US) and DTs on Days 2-4. Maybe there have been advances in that field, I don’t know. I don’t recall having read about those therapies in many years, but what I read didn’t exactly seem promising. I’m no particular expert in the treatment of alcoholism, but I’d have doubts about the effectiveness of those particular elements of the treatment plan. “Faradic” is best known as “electric shock” – this is probably an external shock applied through an inductive coil as an aversive stimulus, not the “electroshock” (ECT) used for e.g. Emetine is best known to most people as “ipecac”, a general emetic. I just noticed what that hospital is using for aversive therapy: “Emetine or Faradic”. ![]()
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