One Little Pill

Documentary film about the Sinclair Method for Alcoholism

This stuff works.

It is malpractice not to use it.

It is inexcusable not to use it.

Alcoholism will kill me before HIV does.

We are born with a nervous system that can change its own wiring on the basis of experience.

I think it would be hard to tell people, “Yeah, I’m gonna try this method, but it involves me drinking.”

It’s phenomenal.  It’s amazing.

He had pretty much said, “You go back to drinking and that’s a deal breaker.”

We’re creating a volatile environment that’s meant to be healing.

Dr Sinclair: The theory of alcoholism being alcohol dependence was wrong.  It also meant the treatment was wrong.

Claudia Christian:  I tried rehab.  I tried AA.  I tried everything and thank God I found what I found.

It is a disease of the brain.  So, treat it like a disease.

No doctor would prescribe it to me.

The recovery industry is very afraid of people having that option.

If science revealed that what we know about alcoholism and its treatment is wrong, that you could save someone’s life with a simple medication, wouldn’t you share it?

Once an alcoholic always an alcoholic unless you could do something to change what’s happened.  But, that’s the other story…