News, Doctor Claims Cure for Alcoholism in a Pill. (smoke, addict, recovery)

[JD59]

A French cardiologist says he has discovered a cure for alcoholism and ended his own decades-long addiction to alcohol by dosing himself with a drug usually used for treating muscle spasms.

Dr. Olivier Ameisen, 55, a French physician who practiced for a time at New York's Weill-Cornell Medical Center claims in his new book "Le Dernier Verre" ("The Last Glass") that since he started taking the drug baclofen, he has lost his desire to consume alcohol.

ABC News: Doctor Claims Cure for Alcoholism in a Pill

[McGowdog]

It promises to cure alcoholism and implies to do the same with cocaine addiction, yada yada yada.

Then it finally jumps the shark and claims to enable the alky to drink normally.

There ya go... recovery in a pill. Notify Pfizer.

I'm not even gonna waste my time to snopes it. But nice thought.

This doctor's lame attempt to describe himself as a real alcoholic was my first clue. Irrepressible? This is my second clue. The mental obsession is anything but an irrepressible urge. It's more like a subtle restless, irritable, discontent and it's accompanied by a "I can handle it this time". Now once the craving takes effect, the real alky is gonna toss these pills back and slug em' down with some booze, lots of booze.

Here's the really trippy thing about alcoholism; it's only a symptom of the problems, you stupid dorks!

Pace, the guy who says he's studied alcoholism for 40+ years, sounds like he knows what he's talking about and he thinks this thing is "bull".

Thirdly, in high doses, the drug causes respitory failure. Smoke em' if ya gottem.

[McGowdog]

Let me just put it this way;

You be the guinea pig and tell me how your solution works, I'll tell you how mine works and we'll compare notes.

This is a subject I do NOT mess around with.