Dr. Charles Mok explains the Sinclair Method, a medical approach where people keep drinking while taking medication that gradually reduces cravings over time. It works for alcohol dependence that causes withdrawal, unlike quitting cold turkey.
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Now somebody is abusing alcohol, even they're drinking it every day. But they're at a point where they can try to stop and not feel terrible. They're not going to go through withdrawal. But the person that can't go 24 hours without a drink is going to have significant withdrawal symptoms. And there's a medical way to work some people through that. So I don't want to get into that so much as to say, we're not going to really see that with this method, because with the Sinclair method, you're really supposed to continue, resume your normal drinking, and let your habit just sort of dry up. And over time, people find they're just not reaching for the glass of wine or the vodka, wherever it is, in the evening, and maybe they can still do it on the weekends with their friends, and eventually they're just losing their taste for it. Overall.