Chocolate? That’s madness! Bill W and Dr. Bob were having great success in AA with niacin. Somehow that part of the treatment fell to the way side. Hmmm.
Before 75 Hard, I had "graduated" to two drinks a day. It felt good, but it became more of a habit than a celebration. 75 Hard got it back under control. I was also up to 3-4 oz of chocolate a day. I also got that ratcheted back.
For the uninitiated, 75 Hard is 75 days with no alcohol, two 45-minute periods of exercise (one outdoors), lots of water, sensible diet, and reading 10 pages of non-fiction. If you lapse, you start over at Day 0.
Bill W and Dr. Bob were having great success in AA with niacin. Somehow that part of the treatment fell to the way side.
Bill W tried to get AA to adopt niacin, based on Hoffer's work. The twelve-step program worked for about 75% of alcoholics, but not for the rest. Inspired by Hoffer, Bill W tried niacin on the other 25% -- and found that most of them could give up alcohol.
By this time -- 30 years on -- AA had become an institution with a board of directors filled with MD's. The board refused to adopt the niacin suggestion.