The Honest Truth: Using the ACR to explore Alcohol Dependency

By Nick Charles

Alcohol dependency – where alcohol has a hold over someone’s behaviour – affects people from all walks of life. It can impact an individual’s health, wealth, relationships, life fulfilment, and so much more.

In The Honest Truth, we explore how to evaluate whether someone has a dependency on alcohol through the ACR: the Alcohol Consumption Regime. It is a focused, simple, six-week programme punctuated with periods of permitted drinking and periods of non-drinking. By the end of it, the reader will see, for themselves, whether alcohol has control over them. With this knowledge in place, they are now better equipped to determine how to move forwards should they need to. The ACR can also be used as a day-to-day routine to moderate and safely control drinking patterns.

Developed over decades of work with alcohol dependents, the ACR offers the proof that people require when judging their drinking habits. This no-nonsense, concise book also contains a variety of background information, case studies, signs of dependency, and beyond. The Honest Truth will be one of the most valuable books you will ever read.

About the author. Nick Charles MBE was the first person in the UK to be honoured by the Queen ‘for services to people with alcohol problems’. His work, over 50 years, has become the most decorated in the UK alcohol treatment field.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bennion Kearny
• Release date: Jun 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9781914066085

Book preview

THE HONEST TRUTH: Using the ACR to explore Alcohol Dependency

*

Nick Charles

*

An imprint of Bennion Kearny

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright

Who is Nick Charles?

About the Examples

This Book

Part 1

What is the ACR?

Tell me more about the ACR… and Nick Charles

The evolution of the ACR

What is the logic behind the six-week programme?

Why would the ACR work for me?

How can something so simple work?

What happens when the six weeks end?

What happens if I fail? Do I restart at week one?

Why might I have failed?

What does ‘Drinking Allowed’ actually mean?

What will help me achieve my controlled drinking goals?

Where can I get more help?

Case Study

The Mystery of the Door to the Inner World

Part 2

Case Study

Part 3

How do I know if a friend or family member has an alcohol problem?

Overwrought behaviour while drinking

Jekyll and Hyde

Non-dependents

Blackouts

Serious mental disturbance

Benders

Going on the wagon

The others

Sneaky drinking

Subterfuge

Pre-drinking drinking

Case Study

Case Study

Dr Marjot’s ACR Notes

Intoxication

Withdrawal symptoms

Dependence or addiction

Degrees of alcohol dependence

What can I do if I fail the ACR?

The Publisher’s Story

A Drink as Clear as Mud (The complexities behind dealing with a Way of Life)

Copyright

Published in 2021 by Hawksmoor Publishing, an imprint of Bennion Kearny Limited.

ISBN: 978-1-914066-08-5

All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher.

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

Hawksmoor Publishing has endeavoured to provide trademark information about all the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals. However, Hawksmoor Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information.

Published by Hawksmoor Publishing, an imprint of Bennion Kearny Limited, 6 Woodside, Churnet View Road, Oakamoor, Staffordshire, ST10 3AE

www.BennionKearny.com