Crossing the zone 60 degrees below zero, written by Hossein Dezhakam
Hossein Dezhakam the founder of Congress 60:
This book is written in a way in which reader can put himself in the writer shoes.
This book is a manual for addiction treatment which has enlighten the road to addiction treatment. Before this book the treatment of addiction was uncertain.
Plenty of scientific definitions existed for addiction and addiction treatment and many books were written about this issue but the result was catastrophic.
We couldn’t understand what is the main problem of an addict? How should we treat him in order to get certain results? And how long this treatment needs?
An addict is someone who is using narcotics and we want him to stop using, this was the tendency toward addict and addiction! And if he couldn’t stop we would label him with lack of will!
In “Crossing the zone 60 degrees below zero” this is discussed that addiction has nothing to do with the power of will and is an illness of body, psych and the worldview.
Metaphors are used in this book in order to make it understandable for instance: all people can’t realize the concept of addiction but they know the freezing concept and they can understand that at the 60 degrees below zero the person is frozen and he can’t move; he doesn’t have the power to move because his body is not obeying his commands.
It is the same about the addiction, the drug abuser wants to get rid of addiction but he can’t. Thus, it is unfair to use the word “craving” for such a person. We should call it “need”. One who stops using suddenly can’t sleep at night, he is frustrated, he can’t eat or enjoy eating, he can’t undertake his daily tasks; but if he uses then he can carry out all the above mentioned. Thus this is not craving but a vital need that he has created for himself.
Thus an addict, knowingly or not has damaged the biological system and this system needs to be repaired, it is discussed in this book how to repair the X system (Production system or entity of natural opioid substances within the human body.)
When an addict tries to stop using narcotics over and over but he is incapable of doing so; others start to label him with being selfish, being a bad person and they excommunicate him from the home or the society. He is ill! He needs treatment like someone who has diabetes he needs insulin! He needs medicine!
All of these are discussed in the book and the road to certain treatment is enlighten and debated.
There are some photos printed in the book which are showing our status in this road, our physiological and our worldview situation.
For instance those rotted trees shows the destructed body of an addict. or the car shows that we must move and this movement or treatment of body and worldview requires time and so on.
Some mentors speak in this book that you can assume these masters the projections of my mind. You can assume whatever you think but the most important thing is that: All structures begin with contemplation; without contemplation, all that exist will decline.
Translated by Ehsan Ranjbar