Alleged alcoholism remedy

[Peskanov]

Hello; I am taking a look for treatments of alcoholism. A friend needs help and I think he is not well enough to choose correctly, so I started looking at the state of current treatments.

I have found one clinic in my country which offers what seems miraculous results in 3 days. I am quite sceptic.

This is the Spanish clinic page:

http://www.tavad.com/desintoxicacionalcohol.htm#01

And the English one:

http://www.tavad.net/alcoholism_detoxification.htm

Can anybody give me some info about this kind of treatment??

Here is a sample of their propaganda:

Traditional methods of detoxification do not help to restore those brain areas in which alcohol has caused neurochemical changes. These other methods only act over the symptoms, and not directly over the root of the addiction, with the risk of disguising in that way the symptoms of brain damage.

In TAVAD, differently from other treatments, it pharmacologically acts in the recovery of changed brain functions. In that way, it eliminates withdrawal symptoms and diminishes or eliminates unstoppable craving for drinking alcohol, what means that advanced cognitive and emotional processes are restored too, such as attention, reading abilities, consciousness or serenity.

Neuronal recovery, reached by professionals of the Medicine and the Psychology while an advanced pharmacological intervention, is occurred on neurotransmitters and brain structures harmed by alcohol: NMDA, serotonergic and GABA receptors systems, which besides are associated with withdrawal symptoms.

 

[Peskanov]

BTW, the treatment is called "UROD". "Metodo Urod" or "Urod treatment".
It's allegedly used for alcohol, opium and cocaine.
I found this reference to an independent study:

http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/b2efa.htm

The cost of the treatment is around 2000-3000$