Beat the Booze contains all the assistance the authors could find from interviewing leading experts in the field of alcohol addiction and individuals who have successfully cut down their drinking or given up alcohol altogether. They are also able draw on personal experience because one author used to have a serious drink problem and the other has cut out alcohol for lifestyle reasons.
Beat the Booze, which makes extensive use of real-life case studies, aims to help anyone who wants to cut down how much they drink or those who need to stop drinking alcohol entirely. The book also provides a useful resource for those who wish to help someone else they know who has a drink problem and for those working in the field of alcohol addiction. Helping people with alcohol problems is not easy and neither is acceptance and dealing with an alcohol addiction. Beat the Booze gives a comprehensive background to the problem and provides useful tips and contact details for getting help.
Special Features of the Book
In addition to conventional forms of treatment, Beat the Booze puts on the map many new and little publicised methods that can be used to combat drink problems. These include:
- Specialist intermediaries who can source the most appropriate and best value private treatment deals but who guarantee that the consumer will not be charged more than they would be if they approached the treatment providers directly.
- New de-alcoholised wines and beers that taste far more realistic than the products which have traditionally been available in supermarkets and pubs. Some de-alcoholised wines have even won international blind-tasting competitions when competing with full alcohol wines.
- A pioneering form of technology that claims remarkable success rates in helping people overcome drink problems by connecting the brain to high tech video games.
- Hypnosis, faith healing and even the power of prayer — one case study was healed simply by a mystical experience.
- Eating the right diet in the early weeks and months of recovery.
- Advice on the reactions to expect from people around you when you cut down or cut out alcohol.
- An explanation of how to avoid getting details of your alcohol problem on your medical records.
