The vitamin cure for addiction

Tlm274 · Newbie

The vitamin cure for addiction

Zoomtopz · MIP Old Timer

Welcome Tom . I hope the vitamin thingee works for you.

What I have found in AA & the older sober members Works for me.

If you look at one thing you have done . Is to Try to help other alcoholics.

That is one of the things we do in AA . To Keep this we Have to give it away.

I do take vitamins , vit C & vit B . As well as a Healthy diet & lifestyle.

Fyne Spirit · MIP Old Timer

I remember huge doses of vitamins, especially B, administered with a huge needle the size of a water pipe, were part of the standard detox treatment in the laughing academy in which I was a guest. There were good reasons for it especially as alcoholics of my kind were a bit prone to malnutrition, and vitamins aided our recovery a little. Although we all had the shots, 7 out of my group of ten drank again and were dead within the year. 3 of us, 2 immediately and me about a year later, went to AA and never drank again. That was thirty years ago. I suppose you could say vitamins or treatment 30% success rate, or AA 100% success rate with our group. Maybe the thought of that big needle played a part too:)

Pythonpappy · MIP Old Timer

Oh man FS, ...

I don't remember a whole lot 'bout my time in 'detox', but one thing I do remember is that big a$$ needle with a soda can size syringe shot ... B somethin or other ...

Hi TLM ...

I don't know 'bout the others, but even though the vitamins helped, like Mike said, to speed up repairing the damage by malnutrition, my main problem is that I was 'spiritually' bankrupt, I had no direction in which to go ... and until I attended the AA meetings, and learned how to deal with this, I never made any improvement ...

I fail to see where vitamins could help fix a broken down 'soul' ...

The vitamins may help 'clear' a foggy mind, but where you go from there is the key to your survival when coming off alcohol ...

Love ya and God Bless,
Pappy

Dodsworth · Senior Member

Good stuff, lol.

davep12and12 · MIP Old Timer

Well, of course AA isn't the only way for an alcoholic to get sober and stay sober, and whatever works for others is fine for them. But for me, I know that simply replacing alcohol with some other substance, whether it be a drug or a vitamin, would not do anything to address the mental and emotional conditions which were still present, and those substances could not have done anything to address my ingrained self-centered fears and my destructive alcoholic self-will that had been guiding my every thought and action. I needed a new way to react to life, and I found that in the 12 steps of AA. If some alcoholic really doesn't need that sort of recovery and can live a contented sober life some other way, more power to them.

-- Edited by davep12and12 on Saturday 21st of November 2015 10:36:37 PM

Baba Louie · Senior Member

The name of the thread is "vitamin CURE for addiction.

There is no cure for addiction. Once your brain has become addicted to a substance, its always gonna be there. It always remembers. It doesn't matter what it is, alcohol, drugs, any physical substance that the brain has been fed for a long period of time, if you abstain from that substance for a long time, and then "slip up", and take it even just 1 time, your brain goes all the way back to square one. It sucks, but that's just the truth.

That being said, it sure can't hurt to be healthy. A brain and body lacking in vitamins and minerals couldn't be a good thing. Anything you can do to help your brain and body physically, is going to make the mental part of recovery easier. I'm just not so sure about "megadoses" of vitamins, too much of certain vitamins can be bad for you. From what I understand, your body just pisses and shits away excess vitamins, anyway.

I take a multi vitamin twice a day. It's about the only healthy thing I do.

hopefulone · Senior Member

If vitamins can "cure" alcoholism, I guess I am "cured". I have taken all the ones suggested in that article plus others and still drank. I may have felt better after taking them, and if so, I probably had more energy to walk to more stores and get more to drink. That sounds like someone trying to promote the book mentioned in the article to me.

stevieg46 · Newbie

Easier softer way perhaps , half measures avail us nothing , take the tablets and keep going to meetings .

Stevie

PhotothingNYC · Member

I did a lot of research on B1 and alcholics- I've been taking 200mg

hopefulone · Senior Member

Alcoholics suffer from vitamin deficiency, there is no doubt about that. I used to watch the 700 Club years ago and Pat
Robertson was promoting a healthy vitamin shake and he gave his recipe for it on air. He said people had always told him how youthful he looked over the years and it was his "secret". Well, I got all the ingredients, some of which the above link contains in their article--in powder form for the shake. It was very expensive (although not as expensive as all the alcohol I consumed later on) and I really could not tell much difference in how I felt. Now I take a good multiple vitamin as well as Geritol. I get on these "kicks" where I'll go out and purchase a bunch of different vitamins to try. At one time a while back I was taking about 10 different supplements a day.

Baba Louie · Senior Member

I knew Pat Robertson was an alkie. I fricken knew it.

Pythonpappy · MIP Old Timer

LOL ...

hopefulone · Senior Member

I actually was sending that man and his ministry money for a good while. That is, after Jim and Tammy Baker and their Praise the Lord ministry got into all that trouble...I helped pay for some of Tammy's mascara back then.

Baba Louie · Senior Member

I think all the money people were sending him is what helped make him look younger.

You can send me the money, instead. I want to look young again.

Baba Louie · Senior Member

You can make the checks out to: Baba Louie

Pythonpappy · MIP Old Timer

yeah, and don't forget me ... you know my address, LOL ...

hopefulone · Senior Member

LOL! You guys crack me up....

...darn, now I am going to have to go pull out more face cream to rub on my "cracks". byw....I don't even spend much money on trying to keep up my own "youth" --ha, ha...did I just say "my own youth?" Sounds pretty funny.) Anyway, my "stuff" comes from the Dollar Tree and yard sales...that's right, I get the rich people's discards! So many of those expensive youth creams are the same thing the cheaper ones have, only with the fancier name brands and I don't want to pay for advertisements which make those companies richer.
And my brother actually talked some sense into me...when I told him about my donations to that man quite a few years ago, he said something about him having gold mines. That did it for me! (And I just looked that up--and he had not only gold, but diamond mines. I didn't want to say anything untrue and it is all over the place on the internet.) I think it is shameful someone gets on the air, begs people to send them money to help all these suffering children and adults and then some of the money is used to line their own "gold lined" pockets.

(And to think that when The 700 Club show had Pat and other people working on that show told viewers if they were suffering from a serious medical issue, to take their hand and place it on the t.v. screen, so that they could pray and heal us, I actually fell for that. What I should have done is taken my whole damn head and pressed it into the screen and maybe if there was anything to what they were saying, it would have helped my mental disorders!

Pythonpappy · MIP Old Timer

Greed IS one of the seven deadly sins ya know? ... and 'some' of those preachers pray on the poor to give money so they can have A/C in their 'dog houses' ... those guys will get their just rewards ... even after some of them get out of prison ... and, btw, who wants to use all that cream and end up look'n like Tammy Baker ??? ... LMAO ...