A new drug lets you drink without becoming a drunk.
Gueorgui Pinkhassov/Magnum
For years, a 12-step program laid out in just 200
words has held a virtual monopoly on the treatment of alcoholism.
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is famous, infamous, global and highly
influential, and it’s based on giving up booze, completely.
For most people seeking help with alcoholism, abstinence is
the only option. That view “is heroic and dangerous, and it doesn’t do
anything,” Wim van den Brink, a spirited Dutch psychiatrist with a flop
of white hair and glasses, recently told an audience of researchers in
Vancouver, British Columbia. Even in the city that is home to North
America’s only supervised safe-injection site for heroin addicts, van
den Brink’s proposal represents a radical departure: He wants to help
alcoholics go on drinking, without all the problems...Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/pill-could-help-alcoholics-and-let-them-drink-moderation-278112
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