Hi Everyone,

My drinking is well within normal limits now. I drink two to three beers per night, never more, with absolutely no effort at self-control. My brother even drinks around me, and more than I do (he's not an alcoholic) and I still don't want a beer until five or six p.m. Then it takes me three hours to drink three beers. This after drinking as many as 15 beers a night for four months on TSM.

I've made a SERIOUS video about all of this, with no air guitar or impressions. TSM is serious business. I enjoy goofing around, and will doubtless do it again, but I wanted to make a straight, and informative, video. Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSDCaTQjEjk

For those of you who don't know, I have a TSM blog http://naltrexonenotgod.blogspot.com/ and a TSM Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php? ... 0296762638

Happy 4th of July to everyone!

--Ben Spees

Great! Best news I've heard in a while!

It took me 21 weeks to be cured by TSM. I think one of the last times I posted a response to you, I felt like you were on the verge of being cured. I am so glad it happened!

What you'll find as you continue, is that the Naltrexone keeps working every time you drink even after you are cured because you'll still be taking it so as not to get re-addicted. At 70 weeks into TSM, I am down to 8 beers per MONTH. Pre-TSM, I used to drink that much or more per DAY every single day. Now, I have entire weeks where I don't feel like having any alcoholic drinks, so I don't. Some other cured ones decided that they would just stop altogether since at these low levels it's easy. I have decided to continue to drink whenever the mood strikes me and it just continues a slow decline week after week.

I love your "Alcoholism is no longer incurable." tee shirt. Great saying! I wish I could wear one to my local AA meeting, but they don't want me there to "confuse" the membership. They have threatened me with forcible removal in a very non-confrontational way. All I did was bring my prescription bottle with me and let others ask me what it was. I answered the questions and did not "proselytize". Still, it was too overt, I admit.

Keep up the updates. Very many of the Cured, lose interest in curing alcoholism because their lives are no longer focused on it. I know it is difficult even for me to stay engaged after over a year. But I intend to have data through a full three years.

Spread the word my friend! Not too many people will do that, since there is no profit (Naltrexone is cheap), no meetings, no effort... just concrete results.

Bob3d

Great news, Ben ... you are an inspiration!

so would you say you're cured? or just damn close to it? I'm happy for you

I remember about a year ago we discussed what the definition for "cured" is. I recall that I argued it should be the NIAAA definition which is where Ben's consumption is at right now. We finally decided that the definition is whatever the person who is cured wants it to be. And some people don't even want to call it "cured" and that is their choice, too.

Bob