Audiobook: ANTABUSE: The One-step Program for Alcohol Abstinence

Antabuse (disulfiram) is by far the quickest, easiest, cheapest and most effective route to long-term abstinence from alcohol. It was licensed by the American Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for Alcohol Use Disorder in 1951 – 75 years ago.
The book "ANTABUSE: The one-step program for alcohol abstinence" was co-written by Mike Buchanan (a British former political party leader and problem drinker) and Paul Elam (an American substance abuse counsellor for 30 years) and published in February 2026. Paperback and Kindle editions are available to order from Amazon, and the ebook can be read at no cost by subscribers to Kindle Unlimited. The book's Table of Contents:

Foreword (Colin Brewer, co-author of "Antabuse Treatment For Alcoholism")

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction

Alcohol

Antabuse (disulfiram)

LifeRing Secular Recovery

Why 12-step programs rarely work

About the authors

REFERENCES (books cited):

Brewer, Colin, and Streel, Emmanuel, "Antabuse Treatment For Alcoholism: an Evidence-Based Handbook for Medical and Non-Medical Clinicians" (2018).

Dodes MD, Lance, "The Heart of Addiction: A New Approach to Understanding and Managing Alcoholism and Other Addictive Behaviors" (HarperCollins, 2002).

Dodes MD, Lance, "Breaking Addiction: A 7-Step Handbook for Ending Any Addiction" (Harper Perennial, 2011).

Dodes MD, Lance, and Dodes, Zachary, "The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry" (Beacon Press, 2015).

Lewis, Marc, "The Biology of Desire: why addiction is not a disease" (Scribe UK, 2016).

LifeRing Recovery, "Humanly Possible: Stories of Secular Recovery" (LifeRing Press, 2019).

Nicolaus, Martin, "Empowering Your Sober Self: The LifeRing Approach to Addiction Recovery" (LifeRing Press, 2015).

Nicolaus, Martin, "Recovery by Choice: Living and Enjoying Life Free of Alcohol and Other Drugs, a Workbook" (LifeRing Press, 2016).

Nicolaus, Martin, How Was Your Week: Bringing People Together in Recovery the LifeRing Way (LifeRing Press, 2015).


The Table of Contents of the book co-written by Colin Brewer, "Antabuse Treatment For Alcoholism: an Evidence-Based Handbook for Medical and Non-Medical Clinicians" (2018):

PREFACE

Chapter 1: The origins of disulfiram treatment: a tale of serendipity, rubber and war, in which no animals were harmed.

Chapter 2: The importance of supervised consumption, family involvement, problem-oriented therapies and formal or informal treatment contracts.

Chapter 3: The misleading ‘Randomized Controlled Trials’ of disulfiram.

Chapter 4: The Japanese connection.

Chapter 5: The varieties of alcoholic experience.

Chapter 6: Disulfiram’s role in retaining ambivalent patients in treatment and identifying the unmotivated.

Chapter 7: Components of effectiveness in disulfiram treatment and other interventions for alcoholism – including placebo and non-specific effects.

Chapter 8: International experts who routinely use disulfiram. Proceedings of the Copenhagen round-table disulfiram symposium of 1996.

Chapter 9: Initiating disulfiram treatment: some basic practices and principles.

Chapter 10: Supervision in the context of probation and parole. Dealing with recurrent alcoholic offenders.

Chapter 11: How disulfiram facilitates psychosocial interventions and rehabilitation: the language-learning analogy, the OLITA programme, and its 9-year follow-up.

Chapter 12: A counter-intuitive application: using disulfiram in controlled drinking programmes.

Chapter 13: Disulfiram treatment in special populations.

Chapter 14: ‘Safer than aspirin’: the side-effects of disulfiram.

Chapter 15: The ethics, philosophy and politics of disulfiram treatment.

Chapter 16: The implications of disulfiram’s effectiveness and modes of action for the hypothesis that ‘addiction is a chronic brain disease’.

Chapter 17: Disulfiram vs. other medications for alcoholism.

Chapter 18: Why can’t we have a disulfiram implant?

Chapter 19: Disulfiram, the Japanese (again) and the potential of gene therapy.

Chapter 20: Conclusion.

Appendix 1: Other uses of disulfiram.

Appendix 2: (Viewable on the website at planetservetus.org) Fear and loathing in Westminster

Acknowledgements


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