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Alcohol Abuse | Drug Therapy Is an Effective Treatment for Alcohol Abuse

Donald W. Goodwin was a professor of psychiatry at the University of Kansas and the author of several books on alcoholism, including Is Alcoholism Hereditary? and Alcoholism: The Facts, from which this viewpoint is excerpted.

Summary: Antabuse, a drug that makes people physically ill when they drink, has been the most widely used drug for alcohol therapy for the past 25 years. Antabuse has had a controversial history due to early deaths cause by overdoses of the drug. However, Antabuse promises a recovery from alcoholism as long as the patient...

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