Can Baclofen Suppress Alcohol Craving?
By Hugh Schofield, Paris – BBC News An eminent French cardiologist has triggered an impassioned debate in the medical world over his claim to have discovered a cure for alcoholism. Dr Olivier Ameisen, 55, one of France’s top heart specialists, says he overcame his own addiction Addiction – The negative end state of a syndrome (of neurobiological and psychosocial causes) resulting in continued or increasing repetitve involvement despite consequences and conscious efforts to discontinue the behavior. Addiction to any particular substance or behavior is seen mainly as a matter of personal vulnerability, exposure and access, and the capacity to produce a desirable shift in mental state. This definition was originally formulated by Howard J. Shaffer, Ph.D., C.A.S.Harvard Medical School, Division on Addictions.’); return false” href=”javascript:void(0)”>addiction to alcohol by self-administering doses of a muscle-relaxant called baclofen. He has now written a book about his experience – Le D
