The medications used to treat alcoholism have come a long way since Antabuse. A Wired.com article details some of the medication options now available to treat alcoholics.
An interesting development in some of these new drugs, like Vivitrol, a monthly injection approved by the FDA less than two weeks ago, is that the focus seems to have shifted from the goal of total sobriety to merely lessening the alcohol amount consumed by addicts.
Other drugs that were seen as having potential for reducing alcohol intake are brand names familiar to the mentally ill community: Topomax and Abilify.
Maybe we’ll see a rebranding of these psychiatric drugs similar to the Wellibutrin/Zyban phenomenon a few years ago.
Read the Wired article here.
