“The book’s title, The Cure for Alcoholism: Drink Your Way Sober Without Willpower, Abstinence, or Discomfort, means what it says. Addiction to alcohol can now be cured—not through abstinence, but by always taking a medication called naltrexone an hour before drinking alcohol. Naltrexone is not addictive and seldom produces side effects.” P. 3.

“The reduction in craving and drinking is progressive. Benefits can be seen as soon as ten days after first use, but the effects are more than three times stronger after three to four months. By that time, your cravings for alcohol will have diminished so much that you are no longer obsessed with alcohol. Some people will choose to stop drinking completely; others continue to drink at safe, controllable levels. The benefits continue increasing indefinitely so long as you take naltrexone if and when you drink.” P. 4.

"We want to be clear that we are not encouraging patients to drink very large quantities at one time. Large volumes of alcohol do not help (do not hasten the de-addiction process) and can be dangerous. But drinking frequently while on naltrexone is beneficial since each time drinking is extinction session."

“David Sinclair reported on the lasting benefits of naltrexone three years after the start of treatment, in which patients continued to take naltrexone an hour before drinking.41 The patients did not take the medication on days when they were not drinking. The patients’ craving, drinking levels, and liver damage markers were all way down. Indeed, these patients were drinking and craving alcohol less after three years than they had been after the first five months of treatment. Traditional abstinence-based alcoholism treatments had always found that the results were best at the beginning of treatment, and then gradually, week after week, the patients would relapse and the drinking would increase to the level it had been before treatment. Pharmacological extinction produces exactly the opposite pattern, as shown by this three-year follow-up study. The drinking and craving is highest in the first weeks of treatment, but becomes progressively lower as the weeks on treatment progress because each intervening episode of drinking while on naltrexone was one more extinction trial. In other words, the more often people drink while on naltrexone, the less they will want to drink.” P. 53.