No, I have not heard of it, but I would be skeptical.
I can't count the times that I drank till I barfed and just continued

Well, I think there must be much more to it than just "barfing". It intrigues me so I will continue to research and report.

Believe it or not, there are a handful of members in AA that endured this. It didn't stop them. They'd vomit and feel horrible and still drink.

I took Antabuse back when I was searching for the magic bullet. It was a false crutch and didn't deal with my alcoholism. I stopped taking it because I needed to drink I never was happy when I just quit drinking. I had to deal with the underlying issues of less than and self sabatoge. Now I enjoy life and don't feel the need to pour booze down my throat
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No. The drug is probably antiabuse . But the deliberately drinking while on the drug is not a remotely accepted tretment to my knowledge

Antabuse is a drug that makes you violently ill if you drink while taking it. Alcohol aversion therapy is different. It is behavioral therapy that involves associating alcohol with extremely unpleasant experience. Antabuse is prescribed as a deterrent.

We have an aversion based treatment center near where I live called Shick-Shadel. From what I have read, they use a combination of conventional counselling and also aversion therapy using drugs (Emetine or Faradic) in combination with alcohol to basically make you feel physically terrible. Also from what I have read they have a pretty reasonable and credible success rate. Sounds pretty rough to me, but it might be appropriate for some people. I guess feeling like crap with hangovers is a big part of making me want to quit drinking alcohol, so not much difference there.

I actually saw a segment about this on one of those news programs (20/20 or 60 minutes??) but it was awhile ago and I am forgetting the finer details of it but I do remember that it did indeed work for some people (so they claim) and isn't quite as weird as it sounds. As far as the long-term success rate for this method well, it would be interesting to find out....lol

I practice a type of at. When I think about a drink I also remember the back pain from an enlarged liver I had at the end. I also think of my last camping trip where I just barfed on myself. I also was so pissed at this guy that was sober. The way he smiled at me the morning after and said good luck. Man that got me to head down the Rd to recovery I despised when ppl looked at me that way.
1-2

That's a good point, 1-2. I guess I too practice this "aversion therapy" on a small scale. I HATE the thought of being hung-over anymore and it seemed to take me DAYS to recover physically and emotionally from drinking towards the end. I still remember those feelings quite vividly and it does indeed help me when I may feel a tad "tempted" to imbue. Who needs that shit?? ICK.

I don't doubt that some form of aversion therapy would be helpful to those for whom excessive drinking has become a problem. Personally I am an alcoholic - one of those who actually drank with residue of Antabuse in her system because the fear and physical urge was more important than the warnings of the fact that Antabuse can potentially be fatal if you drink on it. It happened a couple of times before I was taken off the medication for my own safety.

This is what I know from experience - NOTHING can stop an alcoholic like me drinking until the personal desire to be free of it outweighs the psychological desire and physical need to drink.

"NOTHING can stop an alcoholic like me drinking until the personal desire to be free of it outweighs the psychological desire and physical need to drink."

I agree with that statement. I believe that gaining sobriety is very much about establishing and maintaining your personal level of desire after fully understanding how much better your life can be without alcohol.

My desire to do whatever it took to loose the chains that alcohol had bound me with had more to with my state of current misery and desperation than the promise of potential future happiness and betterment..

My aversion therapy was if a form of alcohol (say gin) made me sick, I would change the brand of alcohol I drank (say to wine). That worked until I found a brand of alcohol I could still drink even if it made me very sick.

I remember Shick from my childhood when used as an aversion therapy for smoking. I remember that is worked for some, but not all. I took anabuse during my first 6 months of sobriety. By then, I had a good foundation for sobriety. I did talk to the dr. about taking it at a later date if I started thinking that I was "cured". It was not necessary for me to take it again. I accepted to my deepest self that I could never drink again as anything other then that as an alcoholic.

I completed the 10-day aversion therapy program BuckStag mentioned over 2.5 years go and couldn't recommend it more highly. The treatment consists of aversion therapy, rehabilitation interviews, individual counseling and education. This medical treatment is science based and "turns off" the receptors in your brain responsible for alcohol cravings. It also digs into the root cause of self-medicating with alcohol.

Support resources available to graduates are vital with meetings held at the main facility and other locations weekly. One can also participate in the meetings by calling in from anywhere in the world -- and we do!

Many insurance companies cover all or a portion of the significant cost of the program but it is well worth it. It gave me my life back.