elfern, that's an interesting question as I myself have forgotten how I came upon TSM...was it thru MWO (My Way Out) forum?

I know the book about Baclofen had been on the news in Nov 08 or thereabouts time. But not sure when the Sinclair Method started to be publicized.

How did we all get started on this?

We have this book store called McNally Robinson. They are very up on everything and fly in authors on the newest books to give talks all the time. I actually think they had Dr. Eskapa. They also had a great doc named Gabor Mate who wrote " when the Body Says No". Awesome book. The Cure for Alcoholism was just there on the shelf when I bought it. I bought it at the beginning of October 2008. Then I told my therapist about it right after that and I had been seeing him for 9 years and he knows and trusts me so he perscribed the Nal and told me to go for it. There was literally a five day difference between me reading the book and getting my Nal from my doc. I don't mess around. Ever.

I was doing an Amazon search for Chris Prentiss' book, A Cure for Alcoholism and Addiction, and Dr. Eskapa's book came up 'accidentally.' (I don't believe in coincidence.) Prentiss wrote the I Ching Handbook, and several other useful spiritual books, under the pseudonym 'Wu Wei,' and I thought his book on addiction would be useful. He also runs a rehab facility called Passages out of Malibu, CA. His son is recovered from a serious heroin addiction. However, treatment thru Malibu is 60G+ per month! So that was out of the question for me. (I wonder how someone whose own son required extensive rehab treatment can justify charging so much to help others. . .?) It turned out that Prentiss' book suggests all kinds of hard to find, expensive therapies as well.

I'm just SO GLAD that The Cure for Alcoholism came up in my search. It's given me renewed hope for a return to a happy, productive life.