Alcohol Treatment Levels
Alcohol Treatment Levels
Sinclair Method of alcohol addiction is the most popular and effective method of cure. This method utilizes the opiate antagonists to work against the normal drinking habits. The medicines which are involved in the procedure include:
• Naltrexone
• Naloxone
The medicine is administered when one is continuing with the normal drinking habit of alcohol consumption in their life. It works by blocking the receptors that triggers the positive effects on the ethanol dependent endorphin release in the brain. In fact, it is claimed that Sinclair method has been able to recover patients successfully for over a decade.
Both the drugs naltrexone and naloxone are approved from the FDA. They have approved the use of this drug in our society. Alcohol addiction Treatment Facilities have been using his since 1984 when it was first approved. One can even take this drug daily, when one is trying to restrain themselves from consuming from alcohol. Different doses and procedures of its use have been suggested as well. One very famous procedure of treatment through naltrexone was suggested by David Sinclair who is a PhD and a research scientist.
This procedure came to be known as the Sinclair method of treatment of alcohol addiction. It has shown about 80% success rate. Most patients could reduce the number of drinks that they would take within the first three months. Few of them were eve able to complete quit the consumption of alcohol within this three months.
In Sinclair Method, the patients take naltrexone only when they are about to drink alcohol or are offered alcohol. This method is also very different from the approved method by the FDA, which recommends its use daily. However, it is effective and it has successfully been able to provide benefit to the user. FDA approved method is best for the people who have chances of cheating and taking the drink.
One who has realized and taken the oath to change their life can easily follow the Sinclair method successfully to stay away from drinking. In this method the physicians recommend the user to take about 50mg of the naltrexone only about one hour before taking drink. This is usually followed for the rest of their life. Naltrexone is safe and it assists addicts who are heavily and physically dependent on alcohol to quit the substance whenever they wish to. The medicine gradually decreases the urge to drink alcohol. Slowly in the initial few week the subjects stops taking high doses. Gradually this amount gets lower and soon they can taper off as much as they want.
Sinclair Method work on the hypothesis that people are conditioned to consume high amount of alcohol. Sinclair also put forth the Pavlov’s method as an example to show how people are conditioned and how both are similar. People are used to the regular doses of endorphin that are released. As a result one needs to recondition themselves by taking only the required amount of the drug which is necessary for the system to work.
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Why can’t alcohol dehydrogenase enzymes be injected into yourself to lower your tolerance to alcohol?
I read that alcohol dehydrogenase enzymes are what help you process alcohol and after years of drinking you develop a deficiency in these enzymes, therefore making your tolerance higher (you need to drink more to get the same “drunk” feeling).
My question is: Why can’t we just medically raise our levels of these enzymes back up to where they used to be, or even higher, so that we get drunk faster and therefore drink less?
Likewise, why isn’t there a treatment for alcoholism that tries to balance this enzyme to a “normal” level in order to more normalize someone’s drinking habits?
to answer the first reply, acetaldehyde dehydrogenase will detoxify acetaldehyde to acetic acid. Is that still as fatal?
It might be LETHAL to drink alcohol in such a case . The enzyme breaks alcohol down to toxic compounds , acetaldhyde being the main one .
THEN
Acetaldehyde and other preliminary toxic results are FURTHER processed by OTHER enzyme systems to give an energy rich molecule called “acetyl coenzyme-A ” .
So if the enzyme on the first limb of that process (dehydrogenase) was injected WITHOUT the enzymes of the second limb , the toxic metabolites (like acetaldhyde) will accumulate FASTER than the normal levels of the enzymes of the second limb CAN ACCOMODATE .
That will result in a spike in acetaldhyde level with even little alcohol intake , potentially leading to death or blindness etc
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You mean inject BOTH enzymes ?
Well that might work except that I doubt those reactions actually take place in serum . The enzyme conversion , at least the final steps (beginning with acetaldhyde) takes place EXCLUSIVELY in HEPATOCYTES (liver cells) , inside the cell environment .
An injected enzyme might work for reactions in the blood stream , but not for intracellular reactions , unless it is also modified to cross the cell wall and enter the hepatocyte .
Acetic acid = acetyl coenzymeA (acetic acid BOUND to a carrier ) , it is not toxic , it is an energy storage molecule that is produced during cell respiration and metabolism of fat .
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I have a problem understanding this . It ultimately depends on what EXACTLY causes drunkenness : free alcohol or its metabolites .
The explanation of tolerance by a deficiency in metabolizing enzymes is contradictory .
It means that chronic drinkers will have higher blood alcohol levels than normal people with for the same amount of ingested alcohol , since it will not be metabolized .
That also means that drunkenness is NOT caused by alcohol itself , but rather by it’s metabolites .
HOWEVER
Even in such a state , the amount of drunkenness cannot be increased by increasing the enzyme concentration simply because thats how enzymes work . The enzymatic reaction is limited by the amount of the precursor . So while decreasing the enzyme WILL decrease the resulting products , INCREASING the enzyme will only increase the production point to a certain level which is the optimal enzyme concentration , after that , the rate of production depends ONLY on the precursor concentration , no matter how much enzyme you add .
SO
Hypothetically , IF the enzyme concentration CAN be manipulated , whether by injection or otherwise , it might bring the tolerance of CHRONIC drinkers to the normal level before the years of Alcohol Abuse , however I doubt it would decrease the normal tolerance of a normal person (so that the alcohol intake of such a person might become low)
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA – Alcohol Treatment
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