Luxury Rehab That Allows You To Drink Alcohol 🤯🤯🤯

I just don't know about this. I. I don't. You guys are gonna have to help me with it. So yesterday I was just hanging out in my kitchen, and I get a text from my sister who sent me this screenshot of an ad she saw. I think it was on Facebook or something. And the ad says, the newest, the most luxurious alcohol residential treatment program for the affluent. And she sent me a screenshot of it, and I looked at it and I just kind of, like, giggled. And I said, oh. I said. I said, like, oh, well, when y' all do an intervention on me, that's where I want to go, you know, and we're just being silly, but I looked up this program, and not only is it extremely luxurious, I mean, like, big time luxurious. It allows you to drink alcohol while you're in the program. That's the part where I'm like, I just don't know. Let's talk about it. I'm trying to keep an open mind, but I'm gonna need y' all to help me get my head right about this, because I was like, what? Like, even on the website, pictures of this place, it has, like, happy people with wine glasses drinking alcohol. I'm like, what is happening? My mind is blown. New universe. I try to be super open minded. Like, I try hard, but I might have just hit the wall. All right, let's think about. Let's talk about it. Okay, so it's not as bad as it sounds, but it's not as good as it sounds either. Okay, so it's really not the luxurious part that bothers me. I don't care about that. It's fancy. They have these super fancy rehabs all over. I'm like, hey, you got the money? You want to spend $150,000 on treatment? You do it. You go do it in the spa. I don't. I really literally do not have a problem with that. I don't think it hurts the treatment process to be, you know, well kept in a nice comfy bed with all the amenities and back massages and all that kind of stuff. That part doesn't bother me. Seriously. I mean, would I spend that kind of money on it? Probably not, but I don't have that kind of money. So y' all ask me when I do. Okay, but that's really not the part that bothered me about it. When I got to the website and I was looking at their treatment program, it looks like what's happening there is that they are using a program in an inpatient setting, which I Think this might be the first time this is done. Before I could. I'm not sure, though, I could be wrong. Called the Sinclair method. Now, I did make a video on the Sinclair method a good while back, but for those of you who don't know what it is, it's basically this process where you take a medication called naltrexone, which is actually originally used in opioid use disorder because it blocks endorphins. But you use it, you can use it for that still, but you can also use it for treating alcohol use disorders. And I have a video coming up later. I actually recorded it today that's like, literally all about naltrexone. But this isn't necessarily all about that. This is about, what do we think about this theory here? What do we think? So it's the Sinclair method. So it means the deal is, is that you take the medication, but you can still drink. Now, alcohol works on five of the addictive neurochemical, neurochemicals in your brain. And endorphins is one of those neurochemicals. So what it does is it blocks one of those neurochemicals, which means it makes it less fun and exciting, I guess, is what you would say. So sometimes people use this medication to try to help people, not binge drink, because in theory, it makes drinking slightly less fun. Now, I have seen a lot of people be prescribed naltrexone and told that it will help with alcohol cravings. And I did have a client recently who told me that it was helping, but I don't know. I'm just not sure if that's, like, I don't. I don't know. Mostly what I've been told is that if you take it and then you drink on it, it's slightly less fun. So the thought would be, if it's slightly less fun, you might not be as likely to go really giant, like, overboard, because it's kind of like, meh, okay, whatever. Now, in theory, I could see that work, and there is some research to it, I guess. And I'm sure it probably does work with some people, but with a lot of the clients that I've had, here's what happens in their brain. Oh, I must just not be trying hard enough. Because they really, once they've decided to drink, they've decided they want that good feeling, so they just want to drink more. Right? Or they'll just quit taking it because they're like, why am I drinking if I'm not getting the feeling right? So I can understand why it works. And I'm not against medication assisted treatment at all. It was just blowing my mind that they were doing that in an inpatient treatment program. And here's why. And it's that mixed with the luxurious pieces of it, something about it, I'm just like, you pay me enough money and you can drink in rehab. That's what I'm hearing. So I'm gonna have to work on it. Y' all gonna have to get me, get my head right on this. Y' all let me know what you're thinking so far. So you got this method just called the Sinclair method. There is some research behind it. A lot of people have done it, Some people have found some success. I'm not necessarily completely against that, but that can be done at home. You don't have to go to $400,000 worth of treatment to do that. I don't know how much it cost. And, and, and to be fair, I don't know anything about this treatment place except what I saw. So look, literally I'm probably just jumping to like 10,000 conclusions, which is why I'm not even going to say the name of the place. Because just like jumping to conclusions and judging here, I'm just telling you what my first impression is. Like a clinical professional. You know, what's going through my mind now, it's pretty old school thinking, I guess, that abstinence is, is the way to go. And I, I'm trying to come around on my thinking with that now. I'm definitely beyond old school thinking. It has to be 12 step. I. No, it does not have to be 12 step according to me, anything. Right. And I'm not opposed to taking a medicine to help you do it. But in my mind, if you are to the point of needing to go to long term residential treatment care, I could be wrong, but it might be that you're beyond the point of being able to bring it back and manage it. Don't know. That's my judgment. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's kind of what I'm thinking. If you're to that level and if you're to that level and you're doing it and you're a Mr. Fancy Pants, successful business person, you got all this stuff going on life, you really, really, really don't want to go away to rehab. Right. And so if you're to that point of having to do it, my question is, is like, are we beyond that? And, and here's where the luxurious part comes in. Like I said, the luxurious part doesn't bother me. I always joke, I say, y' all gonna send me rev, Y' all send me one of them fancy ones, right? But I seriously, it's fine. But on the website it's kind of like, you know, don't let recovery interfere with your life. Do whatever you want. Continue this, continue that, and continue drinking. It's gonna be all right. And when you look at the pictures on it, I mean, most like treatment websites and counselor websites, I call it like the oak trees and butterflies effects, where it's like they all look the same. It drives me crazy. They all say the same things. And that drives me crazy too because it just is a bunch of jargon which doesn't really mean anything but sounds sophisticated. And so at least they don't have that. They got a whole different marketing game going on. So there's part of me that's kind of like, that's impressive. I see what you're doing here. Like, I'm following you. It's like you're catering to this population for the affluent. That's literally what the ad said. And, and we're going to give you, you know, like, literally all this like luxury fancy space place, pools, you know, massage chairs, just everything, right? Like everything. Like you were at like a big fancy resort and you can still do everything you were doing before and you can do this process. There's part of me. There is a part of me that's kind of like, okay, I could kind of see it, right? Like, I guess you could. You know, you're in a kind of controlled environment and at least you're probably getting some therapy and stuff, like while you're doing this process to see if it works for you. So there's that part of me that really kind of wants to like, like, okay, because I'm pretty open minded, right? I'm like, let's try it all. Let's find what works for you. But then there's this other part of me that just sees this like, marketing plan. I'm not against marketing. I'm not against treatment centers, you know, doing what they do. Make some money. They serve a purpose. It's a business. They make money. Like, I seriously don't have problem. It's just that it just felt. It just felt all wrong. Am I crazy here? What do you guys think about it? Maybe it was the pictures of like the happy drinking and the business suits and the laptops and the fancy outfits. I don't know. I don't know what it was. But the, the message definitely comes across like, go to treatment. Have a grand old time. It'll be wonderful. You don't have to interrupt anything. And in my experience, I mean, I don't think treatment should be terrible. I'm against these, like, really old school programs that, like, try to tear you down, and I'm against all that. I'm not for any of that. But should be a little difficult, right? There should be a little struggling because you can't grow unless there's a little, like, difficulty with it. I don't know. Maybe I'm crazy. I'm just getting old, I guess. I guess that's how you know you're getting old, because you see stuff. You're like, what? And then you just can't get with it. Y' all wanna. Y' all wanna know when that happened to me, I went on the Disney cruise not, you know, too long back for my son's spring break. I was so excited. I had never done it before. I'd always wanted to do it. I wanted to go on it. We were planning to go on it in 2020. And then y' all know what happened. So. Y' all gonna laugh at me. Y' all know what I'm talking about. The new style of bathing suits. Don't make me say it. On the Disney cruise, on the fam. Like, okay, they're young. They're cute. Like, wear your bathing suits or whatever. But at the family swim park or whatever, I'm like, y'. All. And then I had this whole, like, dialogue going on inside my head. I'm like, you just being old. You're just being old, right? Like, you just can't handle Amber. What's wrong with you? So I can't decide if it's that part of me that's coming out that just old and can't, like, get with the new or if that's just ridiculous. Let's see who's here with me. Let's see what you guys think about it, because maybe. Maybe it's just me. Let's see what y' all think. All right, who's here with us? I see Silent Sister is here with us. And Renee and Debbie and Sarah. Thank you guys for joining me live. I will say that today, this is not my normal live. I normally go live Thursdays at 1, but sometimes something just happens. I gotta get on here and talk about it, and then you guys get a bonus. So if you're watching this video and you're not subscribed to the channel, make sure you subscribe and hit the bell so you can know when. When you get the bonus episodes, because otherwise you won't know when those happen. Let's see what Silent Sister has to say. Silent Sister says, rich, poor, whatever. Still got to do the work. If back massages helps an attic get rid of resentment, then okay, yeah, I mean, I'm not the back massages. That doesn't bother me the morning. You know, like, a lot of these places, they have, like, all these cool things. Morning yoga, water therapy, horse therapy, whatever. I'm not. I'm not opposed to it. Like, to me, it's not really that different than, like, there are programs specific for young adults that have young adult things where they go snowboarding and hiking and camping and do all this other stuff. And I think that's great because I think it's like, okay, like, engage the person in recovery. Make it be not miserable. So there's, like, that part of me that really can get with it. It's just the mix of the luxury and you can drink and you can do this. I'm just like. I'm just getting stuck, you guys. Let's see here. Silent Sister says, my daughter was administered an abuse when she went to rehab. Then she got out and was right back to it. Okay, so for those of you who don't know what Anabuse is, Anabuse is a medication that you cannot drink on the. The chemical that's in it. It's really just one chemical, but alcohol doesn't mix with it. And so when you take this med, it doesn't do anything else other than the fact if you drink alcohol on it, you'll get really sick, like food poisoning sick. Okay. And so that's what Silent Sister is talking about. Like, they were giving her that medicine while she was in rehab. I could see maybe why they would want to start someone on it so that it's already in their system. Because, you know, the thinking with Anabus is, well, you can just stop taking it and drink, but it does stay in your system for several days. So you have to premeditate drinking. So my guess is they wanted to put it. And so she had, you know, at least a few buffer days. But that's definitely something that you have to take every day, and you have to really sort of want it to work. So I have seen that be helpful. I've had a lot of clients use that. But in an inpatient setting, it doesn't do much good, maybe unless you're at this place, because I don't know any other place that lets you drink except. And this really doesn't count, but. Except I did a treatment video, this was a while back, about this treatment place that does aversion therapy, which is they let you take a swig of alcohol or they let you use a tiny bit of the drug you're addicted to, and then they make you puke on purpose. Aversion therapy, the purpose of an abuse isn't to make you throw up. The purpose of an abuse is to. To help you not choose to drink because you don't want to throw up. So it's just all these different ways to go into going at it. She says she's now serving 10 years in prison. So sad. But sober in time to work on resentments. At least that's why I know it. That's got to be. I can't imagine, you know, having to take your daughter to prison. I mean, that. That. I can't even imagine what that's like. That's so scary. But. But also, having a daughter that's so addicted that you're afraid they're not going to live is scary, too. And sometimes having them in jail or prison let you sleep better at night, so it's just tough. Renee says, I have a son addicted to alcohol. Keeps him in the streets. I can't understand that. Debbie says, could it be that they are allowing people who are recovering from drugs to drink the alcohol in order to soften the edge, so to speak? That could be, but I don't think that's what it is. From reading the. Because I thought that too, from reading what I wrote on. They're using this Sinclair method, which is specifically for alcohol. And the ad itself said alcohol rehab center. So I think they're using it specifically to treat alcohol. If they were doing it like, okay, let's say you're addicted to cocaine or whatever, and they're just gonna let you drink. I can tell you right now, that's a terrible idea. Terrible idea is not. It's not good. Alcohol is a drug. Those of you that go to NA meetings, that's. They literally say it in Houston. Alcohol is a drug. Just because it's a liquid doesn't mean it's a drug. There's a lot of liquid drugs, right? It's a drug. So telling somebody, oh, you got drug addiction, you can still drink. Bad plan. That's where I stand on it. Not too long ago, I did a video about, oh, my gosh, why can't I think of her name? What's the singer? Lovato. Demi Lovato, whatever her name was. And she had the song out was called California Sober. And it was all. And the whole song was like. The popular craze was, like, in recovery, but I can still smoke marijuana and still drink or whatever. And she had the whole song and she was in recovery. She had overdosed. Like, all these bad things happened. And I did hear after I made that video that she's no longer on the California Silver plan because it didn't work. It really doesn't work for most people. Just saying. All right, let's see. Lillabelle says Canadian clinic allows chronic alcoholics to drink this really yucky wine they administer in small amounts. Is that like the methadone option for alcohol? Or is it like they're giving them alcohol small amounts, like, as a way to taper them, like, over, like, a couple of weeks or something? I mean, I might could see that, but there are other ways that that's usually done. That's just wild because I'm trying to wrap my head around it. Lilibell. I haven't heard of this, so you throwing something at me here. So you got people that are like, they're not living at the clinic. They're living either on the streets or in their home or wherever they're living, but they come and they get a little amount of alcohol. Like, in my mind, you know what alcohol is gonna do? They're gonna come get a shot of whatever that is, and then they're gonna go get the rest of the bottle. I don't know. I told you. Maybe I'm just getting old. All right, let's see here. Let's see. My son is coming home this weekend after rehab. I have no clue what to do. I need to set boundaries. Not sure how to go about it. Your. Your name looks new to our channel. If you are new. We have whole playlist on that. We have whole playlists for parents. We have videos about what to expect when they come home from treatment. And we have, like, literally probably more than 100 videos on boundaries. So if you are new here, definitely check that out. You may want to binge some of that before he gets there. Because it's really smart of you. Very smart of you to be thinking ahead. Like you're thinking. You're like, okay, I need to get prepared. Yes, you need to get prepared. Very smart, very wise. Mary. Still just got cut off. It is 2045 here. British summer. Okay, wait, I gotta. Minus the 12. So that makes it 8:45. Oh, it's like night time. Gotcha. It is where I'm at Mary, still it is 3. 49. Let's see here. Silent sister says it's hard, but I rather have my daughter alive in prison than dead on the street. She was completely unstoppable and possessed. Drinking rubbing alcohol and baking extracts like it was water. By baking extracts, do you mean vanilla, like vanilla extract? I know, it's crazy. People don't. Like I said, alcohol is a drug. It is, like, literally the most dangerous drug. It acts on five of the addictive neurotransmitters where opioids only act on the endorphins. So I don't know why it's. It's minimizing. I'm not like, saying it should be like prohibition or something, because that obviously didn't work either. Right? But. But we should take it seriously. And it's just so in our culture, everywhere, you know, I have had clients who did that exact same thing. Silence Sister. I've had clients who drank hairspray, who did very, very, very scary and dangerous stuff, rubbing alcohol. I've had a lot of clients who drank mouthwash, especially when they're trying to hide it and get away with it. And, like, maybe their spouse is watching or something. Seen all of that and done all that. And if that's not addiction, I just. I don't know what is. That's extreme. Now, do I think someone that's. To the level of what silence is just describing and what I'm describing some clients who are drinking mouthwash, who are drinking vanilla extract, who are drinking. You know, do I think you could put that person on Sinclair method? I mean, I'm not opposed to trying it because I think when someone's at that level, they're gonna. They're gonna kill themselves solidaries to it. Like that's what they're doing. And you try everything. So I'm not opposed to trying it. In my heart of hearts. Do I think that's gonna work to someone to that level? I'm just. I'm just worried that it wouldn't. And the reason is. Is because of the brain science, is because I think it keeps all those. I think keeps all those. I call them monster mouse, but it's like neurotransmitters really activated and craving. I don't know, though, y' all tell me, has anybody watching this ever done the Sinclair method? What can you tell us about it? I know a lot of people do it, like I said, on an outpatient basis. So that's why I'm not sure why you would want to or need to go into an inpatient treatment program. I guess you could just go if you want to go to a resort, But I'm guessing if you got the kind of money, the person that goes, that you could just go to a regular resort and take you now tracks on where you. I don't know. See Star. Star says, oh, I missed it. Star says serving booze at rehab is nuts. Maybe the Club Med kind of rehab. I know. Thank you, Star. I feel like. I feel like I'm not just totally out here by myself being old and closed minded. I'm trying. I'm working on it. Lily says the worst of the worst, they let them get off the streets, but can only drink a small amount every hour. So some decide to quit. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. Like that would be. You know what that reminds me of a little bit. It is similar, I think, in thinking to like a needle exchange program. And if you guys don't know what a needle exchange program is, it's where they hand out clean needles to people who are addicted to intravenous drugs. And the. A lot of people say, well, that's just enabling someone. But a lot of people say, nope, it's saving lives and it's stopping the spread of STDs. That could then get to anybody else. Even people who don't have intravenous drug use addiction until they can decide to get better. So on one hand, I could see it especially in these extreme, like what, what you're saying here is like the worst of the worst. I'm not. I mean, if you're keeping someone alive, it's called harm reduction is what it's called. So I'm not, I'm not totally against a harm reduction. I'm just wondering why you're doing it in the 400, 000 whatever luxurious setting. I guess maybe the. It's like the combo of the things. It's not the luxury, it's not the Sinclair. It's just like the whole setup just feels funny. I don't know. I'm probably going to end up taking this back because I'm gonna find out something I didn't know and then my mind's gonna change about it. But I'm just letting y' all know, this is my like first reaction. Anthony says it's risk reduction. That's right. It is risk reduction. And I think in a population like, like what Lily Bell's describing, like what silence is describing. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not like against it. It's just the whole it's just the whole setup not gonna tell you all the name but if y' all could if you could see the website you saw what I saw you might be like that looks a little too good to be true right And I'm all about making recovery enticing right Any reason is a good reason is what I like to say if you are new here don't forget that there are always lots of resources in the description I will go in there and and put those resources in as soon as we get off of this video and in any of the other videos you can always check and look for all the different kinds of resour resources and plenty of videos on this channel. Thank you for joining me live and if you're watching on the replay want to know what you think Definitely put your opinion in the comments and I will see you next time we will be live next Thursday and we also release new videos every Tuesday morning See you then Bye.