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> Another form allows participants to drink but uses a medicine which induces unpleasant effects from alcohol.

Actually, the successful medical method doesn't introduce unpleasant effects, but removes the pleasant ones and introduces 'extinction'.

The medication is naltraxone. Look up 'Sinclair method'.

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> To avoid strong side effects such as nausea and vomiting, practitioners typically wait until after the alcohol detox process before administering naltrexone.

If you take one or two drinks, yeah it will just be not good. If you binge, you be puking your guts out.

This is not true. I have had ~15 drinks on Naltrexone which definitely qualifies as a binge although I never "truly" binged as I never blacked out after starting treatment via The Sinclair Method. It wasn't a great time especially the next morning but I didn't get sick at all.

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