A New Vaccine For Drinking Could Keep Alcoholics Sober
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A New Vaccine For Drinking Could Keep Alcoholics Sober
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Re: A New Vaccine For Drinking Could Keep Alcoholics Sober
#2you need to cure the causes not the effects.
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#3Clockwork Orange
Re: A New Vaccine For Drinking Could Keep Alcoholics Sober
#4you need to cure the causes not the effects.
Yeah, give my dad this and he'll just up his consumption of Klonopin.
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#5you need to cure the causes not the effects.
It's a lot harder to cure the causes than the effects.
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#6I'm a psychiatrist and I work with an addiction population. I think many of them would be glad to have this as an option. It's certainly not perfect, but it would provide an additional layer of protection to people who struggle to maintain sobriety. I think it's sad that the first reaction to this is to think of it as something from "dystopian" science fiction. The oral medication disulfram shares a similar mechanism of action, but it has to be taken every day. When a patient begins to struggle they often stop the antabuse, losing the benefit. At least gives them a few months of protection and if after that they choose not to resume it sounds like that's a possibility.
With proper informed consent, it's a welcome tool to a common and potentially devastating problem.
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#7It's a pet peeve of mine when articles quote their own paragraphs in big bold headings immediately below the paragraph itself.
"It's a pet peeve of mine when articles
quote their own paragraphs"
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#8Good thing this didn't exist in the 20's.
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#9I'm a psychiatrist and I work with an addiction population. I think many of them would be glad to have this as an option. It's certainly not perfect, but it would provide an additional layer of protection to people who struggle to maintain sobriety. I think it's sad that the first reaction to this is to think of it as something from "dystopian" science fiction. The oral medication disulfram shares a similar mechanism…
Thank you for sharing, my very first question was going to be about antabuse and how this would differ in mechanism.
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#10Anyone know (a) whether 23andme will pick up the natural genetic mutation mentioned, and (b) whether you can have varying degress of this condition?
Just curious: 60% of the time, alcohol makes me feel terrible every time...