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While it is acknowledged that there is a definite alcohol withdrawal syndrome, much of what is written about it does not give a true picture. For example, the physical effects of alcohol withdrawal are usually said to be over in three weeks. Some of them have not even started then – the muscle spasm may not appear until the sixth or eighth week.

Alcoholism is often treated as a psychological, sociological or moral problem. No doubt problems in these areas can co-exist but since the nutritional treatment approach is so successful, the primary cause must be physical. The failure of the conventional treatment methods for alcoholism must be because so many professionals refuse to see the condition as the disease it so patently is. Everybody agrees it is characterized by loss of control and excessive drinking, but this is often the last thing in the world the sufferer actually wants. What is happening in his body that keeps him in this state?

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