October 1, 2024
Dear Bill,
I hope you are doing well. I am fine.
I was very happy to hear that you enjoyed watching the University and Congress 60 camp videos. As you noticed, the cost of the building is quite high, but fortunately, we haven't faced any issues so far. When I think about it, considering that for most NGOs, one of their main and fundamental problems is financial matters, we are currently not struggling with such an issue. The primary and important reason is simply because we have found the right method for addiction treatment. In my opinion, addicts around the world are like a treasure, and as the saying goes, "The treasure is found in ruins."
However, on the treasure of addicts, there is a very powerful dragon sleeping, spewing fire from its mouth!
The same dragon that is the title of your book, "The History of Addiction in the United States," called "Slaying the Dragon."
Therefore, we have been able to slay the dragon and eliminate it from our path so that the treasure becomes ours. But those who do not know the correct way to fight the dragon either become its prey or are burned by its fire.
All those who have achieved recovery in Congress 60 consider Congress their own, and because they know the right way to live and earn a living, they do not shy away from any effort to advance Congress 60. This is why we are standing on our own feet.
Currently, along with conducting research and managing Congress 60, I am heavily involved in preparing apples and grapes. Every day, we need to bring at least 10 to 15 tons of apples or grapes into the production cycle because we only have about a month for this task, and fortunately, it is progressing well.
As for the number of participants in this year’s guide exam, there were 12,430 participants, but the exact number of those who passed is not yet known. We need at least three months to announce the results, and if approximately 20% of the announced number passes, the number of successful candidates will be around 2,500, which includes guides for both travelers and companions, as well as guides for newcomers across all groups.
By the way, the introduction to the article you wrote was, as usual, very comprehensive, complete, and effective, for which I am grateful. Ehsan translated that text right away and sent it to me, and I hope the rest of the research work goes well.
Our other research work is also progressing well, and we have received acceptance for about four articles, awaiting their publication.
One of the articles involves a comparison of treated individuals in the NA group and Congress 60 members in terms of cellular and molecular aspects, reviewing the expression circuits of their genes and the damage that incorrect treatments can cause to the immune system and other systems. We are currently discussing this with the journal's reviewers, and they have suggested that, due to its importance, we publish this article as a short report, and we have agreed with this suggestion.
Regarding animal testing on rats, as I mentioned before, the standard methods used for making rats alcoholic are, in my opinion, wrong and incorrect. It seems that those who devised these methods neither consumed alcohol nor used substances themselves, nor did they have any consideration for the natural way humans become alcoholics.
You know well that to become an alcoholic, one must go through stages, and similarly, for substance use until a certain tolerance is built. The point is, imagine someone who has never consumed alcohol suddenly starts drinking a large bottle of Johnnie Walker whiskey or two bottles of cognac or two bottles of vodka from the very first day. If we want to turn someone into an alcoholic with the aforementioned consumption, I believe that if the person does not die, his liver and other biological organs will be severely damaged, and he will say goodbye to the world before becoming an alcoholic.
Now, let’s go back to the protocols for making rats alcoholic. From day one, they want to turn the rat alcoholic with high and fixed amounts, causing most of them to get harmed before even becoming alcoholic. We had to add a new protocol for making rats alcoholic to the proposal, and that protocol is DST, which involves a gradual and step-by-step approach with low consumption, turning rats alcoholic slowly. In reality, we made the rats alcoholic gradually, which required us to add an amendment to the proposal. So, we need to implement both their incorrect protocols and our newly suggested protocol.
I will write the rest in the next letter.
Today, I wish you and Mrs. Rita a beautiful autumn. Be deep as the depths of the seas.
Your friend and brother forever,
Hossein