"After years of battling uncontrollable addiction, I have achieved the supposedly impossible: complete freedom from craving." Dr. Olivier Amei...
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Sep 08, 2011
Lucia
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An honest tale of the destructive effect of alcohol. Olivier Ameisen is a remarkable individual. He is a gifted musician and a successful cardiologist. He has one almost fatal flaw. He was born with a genetic predisposition to constant anxiety and alcohol dependency. Using alcohol to curb his anxiety he quickly spirals into alcohol dependency and suffers all the consequences of an addict. Financial ruin, health problems including withdrawal seizures and almost loses his license to practice
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Nov 19, 2009
David
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physician's memoir of his very severe alcohol dependency, which cost him his career as a cardiologist, and the self-treatment he conducted using high-dose baclofen off-label. He published a case report a couple years ago about his own treatment, contending that the drug completely suppressed craving, such that maintaining abstinence was easy for him, and greatly reduced his lifelong anxiety, self-medication of which is ostensibly why he had been drinking for so many years and through so many fa
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Jan 15, 2010
Madeleine
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Essential and compelling reading for anyone addicted to anything they don't want to be addicted to, be it cigarettes, alcohol, overeating, etc. The author's solution for people struggling to eliminate a craving that is wreaking havoc with their lives and relationships is high dose baclofen, a safe, relatively inexpensive, older medication that is ignored by the big pharmaceutical companies because they can't make a lot of money off of it. The scientific papers lending support to his thesis are
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Feb 22, 2010
Sean
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Apr 13, 2010
Laura
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I was skeptical when I first heard of this book. If this man had actually found a cure for his alcoholism, why wasn't it all over the news?
Answer: Because Big Pharma doesn't want to fund studies showing how baclofen (a generic drug normally prescribed for multiple sclerosis) is effective in reducing anxiety, cravings, and the obsession for alcohol and other drugs.
This was a well organized book, complete with relevant articles, abstracts, and a nice bibliography. This subj More...
Answer: Because Big Pharma doesn't want to fund studies showing how baclofen (a generic drug normally prescribed for multiple sclerosis) is effective in reducing anxiety, cravings, and the obsession for alcohol and other drugs.
This was a well organized book, complete with relevant articles, abstracts, and a nice bibliography. This subj More...
Sep 22, 2011
Todd
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As a clinician I appreciate anything that attends to the biochemical nature of addiction. I am a fan of anti-craving medication and I felt his approach was refreshing in that he was using a medical approach to deal with a medical problem.
I would hope that more people would explore Naltrexone, Campral or other methods to deal with cravings.
Aug 08, 2010
Ccdempsey
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High-dose baclofen protocol. Cravings built upon chronic lifelong anxiety and panic.
Sep 10, 2009
Brandon
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I was fascinated by the neurochemistry/other life sciences in the book intermingled with the storyline of what happened.
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