Treating Alcohol Addiction: A Pill Instead of Abstinence?By Maia Szalavitz Wednesday, Jul. 29, 2009
They call it "the switch." Alcoholics who take an anticraving medication called baclofen say the drug allows them to resist the most powerful triggers of relapse: former drinking buddies, a favorite bar, the sight of alcohol or even the most potent drinking cue of all, having a single drink. . . . . .
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