Mlete mbuzi 7.

@Mukiri, I do not believe in miracles. Not of the kind you suggest anyway. But thank you for trying to help just the same.

Thank you for your response @Seppuku.

First, I need to apologize and possibly rectify a mistake I have made in my contribution on this thread.

I have implicitly undermined conventional medical practice. I have done this by insinuating that there are other options that exclude those that are established by existent medical institutions. Such a position can't be entirely true.

Having said that, I believe that orthodox approaches to such illnesses as alcohol dependence and personality disorders do not go far enough in the patients mind, patients relationships, and the patient's existential values.

I have come across several cases, and one ended in death, where what I may call existential factors were largely ignored. One reason for this maybe the reigning paradigms in scientific research.

Consequently, the patient sometimes ends up being 'dependent' on prescribed drugs most of which have significant effects on psychomotor activities and even social relations.

My personal therapy hasn't been completely drug free. I remember I nearly took to alcohol in my early days. Luckily, I did some research on most drugs and the information I acquired helped me to make better decisions.

This brings me to the gist of my argument: By identifying our 'friend's' psychological script, we can decipher how knowledge is structured and hence we can edit the script appropriately to accommodate behavior consciousness and change.

This can be done by engineering social events, use of multimedia, and conventional use of counseling. In short, the patient can undergo inception of an idea that will create individual motivation.

Then he can get into psychiatric care especially when it gets to treating withdrawal symptoms, if necessary.

Apparently, this has the effect of increasing costs.

But inception carries the advantage of increasing patient participation in healing, and is wide enough to cover other addictions that the patient may be suffering from.

So far, I can handle the inception and behavior therapy well enough and deliver him to a doctor, though the process may take several months.

But the algorithm is SMART and interactive even to you the minder.

@Seppuku

There was this article sometime back in nation, of a former addict who has given his contacts at the end of the article. Ignoring the sex addicition part part, the guy may be of assistance as a former addict.

http://www.nation.co.ke/.../-/tucy38z/-/index.html

Another former addict-turned-counsellor

http://www.nation.co.ke/.../-/nexjf5z/-/index.html

All the best to your friend