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Saturday, December 8, 2007

Trazodone Improves Sleep, but Decreases Abstinence in Recovering Alcoholics

Marlene Busko

December 7, 2007 — Despite short-term benefit in sleep quality, trazodone impeded improvements in alcohol consumption in recovering alcoholics with sleeping problems, in a double-blind placebo-controlled trial by Peter D. Friedman, MD, and colleagues at Alpert Medical School of Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island.
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